What's New | June 09, 2008

Providing Access to Care in Rural and Community-based Settings

The featured innovations show how to extend specialty health care to rural and underserved populations by using telemedicine and health aides.

Featured Innovations:

• Dental Health Aide Program Improves Access to Oral Health Care for Rural Alaska Native People

• Remote Viewing of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Babies by Mother Promotes Bonding, Potentially Improves Infants' Long-Term Outcomes

Featured QualityTools:

• Healthy Families, Healthy Communities: A Blueprint for Action: Mi Pueblo…Mi Familia
Developed by American Council for Fitness and Nutrition; American Dietetic Association; American Dietetic Association Foundation; Latino Health Communications

• Quality Improvement in Rural Hospitals: How Networking Can Help
Developed by National Rural Health Resource Center; The Networking for Rural Health Project

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Also in This Issue:

Innovations >

• Community-Wide Collaboration Provides School-Based Mental Health Services to Students and Families in Impoverished, High-Crime, Urban Neighborhoods

• Police-Mental Health Collaboration Provides Immediate and Ongoing Services to Children Exposed to Violence and Trauma, Leading to Enhanced Quality of Life

• Remote Assessment and Treatment via Telemedicine Combined With Onsite Case Management Enhance Access to Mental Health Services for Low-Income and Minority Students

• Remote Consultations Provide On-Demand Access to Stroke Specialists for Network of 31 Emergency Departments, Facilitating Rapid Stroke Treatment and Patient Transfers

• Comprehensive, Shelter-Based Clinic Enhances Access to Oral Health Services for Homeless in Los Angeles

QualityTools >

• A Parent's Quick Reference Card—Recognizing and Preventing Gang Involvement
Developed by Office of Community Oriented Policing Services; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

• FluWorkLoss 1.0
Developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Fruits and Veggies—More Matters
Developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Now That You've Tested Positive For Group B Strep (GBS), Learn How to Help Protect Your Baby
Developed by Group B Strep International

• VERB. It's What You Do.
Developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Department of Health and Human Services; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent and School Health