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June 09, 2008

In this issue, the featured innovations address the topic of providing access to care to people in rural and community-based settings.

The featured innovations show how to extend specialty health care to rural and underserved populations by using telemedicine and health aides.

Innovation Profiles:

- Comprehensive, Shelter-Based Clinic Enhances Access to Oral Health Services for Homeless in Los Angeles
- Dental Health Aide Program Improves Access to Oral Health Care for Rural Alaska Native People
- Remote Viewing of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Babies by Mother Promotes Bonding, Potentially Improves Infants' Long-Term Outcomes
- Remote Assessment and Treatment via Telemedicine Combined With Onsite Case Management Enhance Access to Mental Health Services for Low-Income and Minority Students

QualityTools:

- A Parent's Quick Reference Card—Recognizing and Preventing Gang Involvement
- Body & Soul: A Celebration of Healthy Eating and Living
- FluWorkLoss 1.0
- Fruits and Veggies—More Matters
- Healthy Families, Healthy Communities: A Blueprint for Action: Mi Pueblo…Mi Familia
- Now That You've Tested Positive For Group B Strep (GBS), Learn How to Help Protect Your Baby
- Quality Improvement in Rural Hospitals: How Networking Can Help
- VERB. It's What You Do.

Last updated: June 09, 2008.

 
 
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