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Why Nurse Practitioners are a Solution to Rural Healthcare Challenges

Health Leaders | Nursing

during that same time period, according to a 2020 study. of full-time NPs seeing Medicare patients and 82% seeing Medicaid patients. Senate in April and would allow NPs, physician assistants, and other APRNs to provide particular services under Medicare and Medicaid. The percentage of rural physicians has declined—12.8%

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Improving Care and Access to Nurses (ICAN) Act: Legislators Want to Hear from Nurses 

Daily Nurse

NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. Yet, despite the high-quality healthcare NPs provide to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, barriers still exist within the programs that prevent the effective and efficient delivery of care.

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Reducing Mistakes: What Every Nurse Can Do

Minority Nurse

Organizations should strive to be reliable, not perfect, and provide an atmosphere that includes and promotes systems that catch mistakes before they reach the patient. Promote transparency of the investigative process and promote legal support for nurses who may be held individually accountable. Okpala, 2020).

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Leveling the Playing Field for Rural Health Providers

Health Leaders | Nursing

The only thing we request of community hospitals is promotion." during that same time period, according to a 2020 study. of full-time NPs seeing Medicare patients and 82% seeing Medicaid patients. The Sheps Center says 19 rural hospitals closed in 2020, the most closures in a single year in the past decade.

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Crusading for Mothers

American Nurse

From 2014 to 2020, 15 hospitals closed in Missouri, 10 of which are in rural counties (Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, 2021). The BBBA also promoted maternal health homes by incentivizing states through an increase on the federal match of 15% for two years if they use maternal health homes.

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Rural Emergency Hospitals Increase Access to Care in Rural Communities

Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations

Hospitals within a rural area with not more than 50 beds or that closed after December 27, 2020, can seek designation as a REH as long as they meet the conditions of participation to participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. December 27, 2020). Rural Emergency Hospitals.

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Digging Deeper into Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Pediatric Heart Transplant

Consult QD

In 2020, the society launched the Healthcare Disparities Taskforce to better understand the role of social injustice within the discipline, promote cultural competency, provide education to clinicians and facilitate research into social determinants and outcomes.

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