Saving Lives
Peer support specialists are trained to use their
experiences in recovery to help others.
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Focus on Rural Health features stories about rural health leaders and people working in rural North Dakota healthcare organizations.
Peer support specialists are trained to use their
experiences in recovery to help others.
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The town of Grafton, North Dakota uses a community team
approach to recruit two family physicians for their
hospital.
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Community agencies and services in Stanley, North Dakota,
came together to address the opioid crisis with area
students. Presenters addressed the youth through creative
and interactive activities and conversations.
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National and regional rural health leaders tour innovative
rural and tribal health systems around North Dakota.
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Critical Access Hospitals in North Dakota are using
telehealth and technology to connect and reconnect to meet
the needs of their rural patients.
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As a University of North Dakota student, founder director
of the Center for Rural Health, and consultant, Dr. Kevin
Fickenscher likes to stir things up.
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Project ECHO is using video technology to address the
opioid epidemic by connecting specialists at academic or
specialty health center "hub sites" with community-based
primary care teams.
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Dr. Kay Miller Temple is a medical writer for Rural Health
Information Hub. She is also a physician with over 30 years
of experience. That, coupled with her rural
upbringing, helps her research and write articles
with a unique perspective on complex rural health issues.
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The results of brain injuries often can't be seen.
Survivors, however, are finding their voices through the
Unmasking Brain Injury project launched by the North Dakota
Brain Injury Network.
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North Dakota native and UND School of Medicine & Health
Sciences grad Mary Aaland leads the Rural Surgery Support
Program to help recruit and retain rural surgeons.
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