Focus on Rural Health features stories about rural health leaders and people working in rural North Dakota healthcare organizations.
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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Tara Brandner and Amy Holtan Ellingson are among those
making use of loan repayment programs available to
healthcare professionals willing to work in rural and
underserved areas.
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Carol Sims is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain
Band of Chippewa from Belcourt, North Dakota, and a
respected elder in the community. She credits her military
experience for helping shape her life.
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Health professionals and students gather for Primary Care
Week at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine
& Health Sciences to network and to discuss the role of
primary care in North Dakota's health delivery systems.
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Targeted Rural Health Education (TRHE) is a project where
health profession students who are living and learning in
rural communities explore a local health need and write an
educational article that addresses the issue for the
community.
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