Search results for "Rural Health"
Expanding the reach of palliative care
Telehealth is facilitating the growth of end-of-life services in rural areas.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/02/expanding-the-reach-of-palliative-care.htm
15 Feb 2020
The latest issue is online
ACP Internist's September issue is now online. The latest issue includes:
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/09/15/8.htm
15 Sep 2010
Will small hospitals disappear?
Facilities take new approaches to survive familiar challenges.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/small-hospitals.htm
15 Dec 2015
Rural hospitalists face unique challenges, rewards
Hunting for beds in tertiary facilities and providing outpatient consults are among the diverse responsibilities of hospitalists in remote areas.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/04/26/rural-hospitalists-face-unique-challenges-rewards.htm
26 Apr 2023
Wanted: Small-town hospitalists
Hospitalists can bring some relief to short-staffed rural areas by taking over inpatient care. But as more rural communities consider implementing hospitalist programs, they find themselves faced with the same recruitment challenge that helped create the problem: a rural venue.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/cover-story.htm
15 Dec 2007
Hospitals tighten rules on gifts, meals, education from pharma
Some institutions, mainly academic medical centers, are taking a newer, hard-line approach to physicians’ relationships with pharma. Our cover story looks at some of these new policies as well as the potential impact of this growing movement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/05/cover.htm
15 May 2008
Indian Health Service reaches across borders within the U.S.
Delivery of everyday health services in the Navajo Nation is challenging, and specialty services even more so.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/08/ihs.htm
15 Aug 2012
Windshield time and North Dakota nice
Despite having one of the country's lowest reimbursement rates, North Dakota offers above average scores on access, quality, utilization, equity and health outcomes in recent rankings.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/dakota.htm
15 Nov 2008
New IM residency gains foothold in Nepal
Patan Hospital, a tertiary-level referral center that treats nearly 320,000 outpatients and 20,000 inpatients each year, had no internal medicine residency program until last year.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/04/new-im-residency-gains-foothold-in-nepal.htm
15 Apr 2018