Bipartisan bill helps fix gap in obstetrics care for women in rural areas

Blackburn and Warner Introduce Bill to Enhance Rural Medicare Services - The Virginia Star

Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced a bill to improve medicare services for people in rural areas and underserved communities. The Rural Patient Monitoring Access Act proposes establishing remote physiological monitoring (RPM) services for people in these areas. According to the Blackburn press release, providing these RPM services will lower costs and enhance access to medical care by using technology to gather an…

Bipartisan bill helps fix gap in obstetrics care for women in rural areas

We have seen a decline of dedicated labor and delivery facilities in rural hospitals, including Wisconsin. I cosponsored a bill to address this crisis.

Labor pains: Expectant parents on rural coast face limited access to nearby birthing centers - Local News Matters

ON A COLD DECEMBER NIGHT in 2022, Autumn Walsh, a Gualala resident and expectant mother, and her husband decided to take Meyers Grade — a rural road in northern Sonoma County that leads to California state Highway 1, followed by state Highway 116, and eventually to more populous cities. In the ninth month of her pregnancy, Walsh was headed to the obstetrics unit at Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.Long rural drives like this are not unusu…

Since 2022, Morocco has been experimenting with an innovative community health system to improve maternal and child care in rural areas. The post Community Health: a new approach for rural areas appeared first on LesEco.ma.

Bipartisan Bill Aims to Strengthen Local Meat Processing Infrastructure

A reintroduced bill aims to help small meat processors around the nation. Senators John Thune (R-SD) and Tina Smith (D-MN) reintroduced the Strengthening Local Processing Act, a bipartisan initiative designed ... Read More The post Bipartisan Bill Aims to Strengthen Local Meat Processing Infrastructure appeared first on AgNet West.