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Maine
Maine is the newest state to embrace CALS as a program for improving rural health outcomes and quality. Guy Nuki, MD of Bluewater Emergency Partners, approached CALS in 2017 about conducting a course for the critical access hospitals in Maine. It is the first formal CALS program on the East Coast. The first class was held in May in the Portland, ME area, and the feedback from hospital clinical leaders who attended the course was that CALS would be an excellent course for all the rural and community hospitals. It is expected to have the first Maine-run course November of 2018.
Affiliate News
Strong medicine is needed to solve America’s rural health crisis
By TRACI MARQUIS-EYDMAN/STAT NEWS Growing up in the rural community of Fort Kent, Maine (population just shy of 4,000), I watched my parents struggle to find and keep a primary care physician. When I was young, this town in Aroostook, the state’s northernmost county,...
read moreMaine bars residents from opting out of immunizations for religious or philosophical reasons
By Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN Maine has become the fourth state in the nation to prohibit people from opting out of immunization for religious or philosophical reasons. Governor Janet Mills (D) signed a bill into law in May removing all non-medical exemptions to...
Nursing Homes Are Closing Across Rural America, Scattering Residents
By Jack Healy, New York Times MOBRIDGE, S.D. — Harold Labrensz spent much of his 89-year life farming and ranching the rolling Dakota plains along the Missouri River. His family figured he would die there, too. But late last year, the nursing home in Mobridge, S.D.,...
USDA Invests in Rural Water and Wastewater Infrastructure in 46 States
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2018 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is investing $1.2 billion to help rebuild and improve rural water infrastructure for 936,000 rural Americans living in 46 states. “Access to water is a...
CALS Program
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