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Alaska Healthcare Professionals Gather For Rural Emergency Medical Training
By MAGGIE NELSON In resource-constrained environments like rural Alaska, time and education can mean the difference between life and death. https://www.kucb.org/post/alaska-healthcare-professionals-gather-rural-emergency-medical-training#stream/0 In mid-October of 2019 a PenAir SAAB 2000 airplane crashed and nearly fell into the ocean at Unalaska’s Tom Madsen Airport. When the plane touched down, instead of slowing and stopping at the end of the… -
CALS Certificate Extension–Response to COVID19
CALS Certificate Extension—Response to COVID 19 Comprehensive Advanced Life Support (CALS) Program continues to monitor the effects of the COVID 19 pandemic and is modifying operations as necessary to accommodate the new and evolving demands being placed on emergency health care systems. We want to help alleviate concern about CALS Certification so you can focus… -
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, had a few die-hard general practitioners and surgeons, but as they retired… -
Maine 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 vaccination from the books. “As governor, it is my responsibility to protect the… -
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., that cared for Mr. Labrensz announced that it was…