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Funding Opportunities
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State Offices of Rural Health Grant Program (SORH)
HHS/HRSA
Deadline is January 15, 2016
Advanced Nursing Education Program
HHS/HRSA
Deadline is January 15, 2016
Flex Rural Veterans Health Access Program
HHS/HRSA
Deadline is February 8, 2016
VHCF: Virginia Health Safety Net Grants
Deadline is March 2, 2016
Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Program
HHS/HRSA
Deadline is March 4, 2016
HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH): Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy (R01).
Deadline is May 7, 2016.
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Preview of the Legislative Districts dashboard on the Virginia HOI site.
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Legislative Districts dashboard now active on Virginia HOI website
The Legislative Districts dashboard is now active on the Virginia Health Opportunity Index (HOI) website! The Health Opportunity Index dashboards provide state-level policy makers, and the voters they represent, with insight into how social determinants of health impact health in their districts. Check it out!
Virginia HOI links:
We will continuously update the Virginia HOI site, so please check it often for the latest information!
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Studies Find Improved Access to Surgery After Health Reform
General Surgery News, January 13, 2016
Health care reform in the United States is improving access to surgical services and reducing surgical inequities, according to several studies presented at the 2015 American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress.
"Our research shows that insurance expansion is working. Patients of all income levels and all races have seen some degree of benefit," said John W. Scott, MD, MPH, the Global Health Equity Resident in General Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Henry Ellis Warren Research Fellow, Center for Surgery and Public Health at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston.
Campus Researchers Try New Ways to Close a Gap in Mental-Health Care
The Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2016
As college campuses grapple with mental-health issues, researchers are trying new ways to bring treatment to students from ethnic-minority backgrounds, who experts say often don't get the care they need and are more likely to have negative consequences due to their illness. Even highly educated minority students tend to seek care for mental-health issues less frequently than whites.
Academic researchers and foundations such as the Steve Fund are trying to improve the quality of mental-health care for ethnic-minority populations and their engagement with it.
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Eliminating oral health disparities in the Hispanic population
Dentistry IQ, January 12, 2016
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S.
Hispanic population is forecast to grow 43% by 2020 (vs. 14% for the general population). Along with this growth will come a need for increased oral health services and education, coupled with an effort to address significant oral health disparities in this population.
Feds Funding Effort To Tie Medical Services To Social Needs
NPR, January 5, 2016
The federal government has announced a $157 million project to help hospitals and doctors link Medicare and Medicaid patients with needed social services that sometimes have a bigger effect on their health than medical interventions.
Even with medical care easily available, patients are often
limited in their ability to get better or maintain good health if they lack stable housing, access to healthful food or the ability to get to and from medical appointments.
Lost In Translation: How Foreign-Speaking Patients Suffer Without Medical Interpreters
WBUR, December 29, 2015
When I met Mr. Y., he was sitting up in bed, sweating and breathing quickly. An elderly, Russian-speaking man, he was admitted to the cardiology ward at a large hospital where I was working. His blood pressure was dangerously high and he struggled to breathe. His fear was instantly apparent in his wide blue eyes. Panting, he told us that he had liver pain, pointing to just below the ribs on his right side.
It's unusual for patients to complain about liver pain. In broken English, Mr. Y. explained that it began after starting new blood pressure medications a few months ago. But his chest X-ray told a different story.
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UI-VA project aims to help rural female veterans tackle postpartum depression
Iowa Now, January 11, 2016
A University of Iowa researcher is working with the Veterans Administration on a pilot program to help female veterans suffering from postpartum depression.
MomMoodBooster is an online intervention tool that helps mothers who live in rural areas cope with their depression.
"Women in rural areas often don't seek out or have access to mental health care," says
Michael O'Hara, professor and Starch Faculty Fellow in the UI Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. "Reaching out in particular to rural veteran women seemed to me like it was just something important to do."
Rural areas lag in health care sign-up
The News-Messenger, January 8, 2016
In its third year of enrollment, the Affordable Care Act has become more accessible to everyone in need of health care across the county, but in Ohio, officials say rural residents are not taking advantage of coverage options.
With open enrollment ending Jan. 31, the U.S. Department of Agriculture notes that there has been a drastic reduction in the uninsured in big cities, but no growth among enrollees in rural areas.
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