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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… -
The most remote emergency room: Life and death in rural America
By Eli Saslow, The Washington Post SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A flashing red light summoned Dr. Brian Skow to his third emergency of the afternoon, and he hurried to a desk in a suburban office building. He sat in front of an oversize computer monitor, which showed a live video feed from inside a hospital… -
Far from care: Life with a sick baby in a rural state
By Katheryn Houghton – Bozeman Daily Chronicle Staff Writer It’s not hard for them to stay awake while most everyone else sleeps. What could happen is enough. The home nursery was dark on a recent evening other than the glow from the machine keeping the Samuelsons’ newborn alive. Bozeman’s late August heat had arrived and… -
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…