Southern Rural Access Program
November 28, 2007 | Program Results Report
The Southern Rural Access Program implemented a range of activities to increase access to health care services in rural, underserved areas of eight southern states.
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The Southern Rural Access Program
January 1, 2007 | Book
The most consistent priority of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been to expand access to medical care for underserved individuals, a disproportionate number of whom live in rural areas. The Foundation has employed a number of approaches to improve health services for people living in rural areas. In this chapter, the award-winning author and frequent Anthology contributor Digby Diehl looks at a program designed to improve access to medical care for people living in some of the nation's most underserved areas?the rural South of the United States.
Southern Rural Access Program: Tina Monlezun
November 16, 2009 | Program Results Report
Nurse practitioner Tina Monlezun, RN, MSN, bought the vacant clinic building and with a loan from Louisiana's Southern Rural Health Access project, was able to open the clinic and cover costs such as personnel and equipment.
Southern Rural Access Program Site Profile: Texas
November 16, 2009 | Program Results Report
In Texas the East Texas Area Health Education Center worked with 40 organizations - hospitals, social services agencies, and faith-based ministries - to develop the East Texas Health Access Network.
Southern Rural Access Program Site Profile: Mississippi
November 16, 2009 | Program Results Report
In Mississippi the Mississippi Primary Health Care Association created the Mississippi Access to Rural Care program, which helped recruit and place 134 primary care providers in some of the state's most remote and impoverished areas.
Southern Rural Access Program Site Profile: South Carolina
November 16, 2009 | Program Results Report
The South Carolina Rural Interdisciplinary Program of Training introduced 420 students in 12 health disciplines, to rural health care for five weeks during the summer.
Southern Rural Access Program: Mary Curtis and Sally Harrison
November 16, 2009 | Program Results Report
A registered nurse experienced in the business side of health care, Harrison spent almost two months improving the billing system. As a result of her work, the hospital's charges increased from $9 million to $11 million a year initially and eventually went up to $14 million, says Curtis, adding, "That's the bottom line."
Southern Rural Access Program: Stanita Jackson
November 16, 2009 | Program Results Report
During the enrichment program, Jackson spent half of each day in the classroom, and the other half-day at the Natchez Regional Medical Center, shadowing staff in a different department each week. After completing the program, she went on to pursue a graduate degree in biological science.
Southern Rural Access Program: William Hewitt
November 28, 2007 | Program Results Report
Due to his overall poor health, William Hewitt of Center, Texas, a 68-year-old retired manager of a chicken processing plant, needed to have his teeth removed in a hospital, at a cost well beyond his means. This sidebar recounts how the East Texas Health Access Network arranged for Hewitt to have his teeth removed and get new dentures, for out-of-pocket costs of just over $1,000.
Southern Rural Access Program Site Profile: West Virginia
November 28, 2007 | Program Results Report
The West Virginia lead agency was the Center for Rural Health Development, a nonprofit organization created in 1994 to provide leadership in the state on rural health issues.