2022 National Rural Health Day Photo Contest Entries

Explore our story map of the photos submitted to our 2022 National Rural Health Day Photo Contest! 
 

Human papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine Disparities by Rurality and Race/Ethnicity

OSU Center of Rural Health faculty and staff collaborated with colleagues from the OSU Center for Health Sciences, the Sexual Health Research Lab at Purdue University, and Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for a research poster presentation at the 2022 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo in Boston, Massachusetts. Their poster looked at the disparity of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake among teens across racial/ethnic lines and rurality.

Click the image below to open the poster as a PDF document.

CAH Board Governance Series, Session 2: Rights & Responsibilities of Board Members

Cori Loomis, JD of the Christensen Law Group joins Lara Brooks, MS from the Oklahoma Office of Rural Health for the second installment of the critical access hospital (CAH) board governance webinar series. This session covers the various types of entities, legal duties of the board, responsibilities of individual members, responsibilities specific to healthcare, and board rights. The recording lasts approximately 44-minutes.

Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Board Governance Series, Session 1: CAH Cost Report 101

Jonathan Pantenburg, MHA of Wintergreen, joins Lara Brooks, MS from the Oklahoma Office of Rural Health to kick off the critical access hospital (CAH) board governance webinar series. This first of three sessions covers the history of the CAH program, operational regulations, and reimbursement methodology through the Medicare cost report. The recording lasts approximately 53-minutes.

American Heart Association Rural Health Care Outcomes Accelerator (RHCOA)

Katie Cordes of the American Heart Association (AHA) joins Lara Brooks, MS of the Oklahoma Office of Rural Health to discuss AHA’s Rural Health Care Outcomes Accelerator (RHCOA) which aims to bring equitable care to all and close the outcomes gap between rural and urban hospital care. The recording lasts approximately 29-minutes.

Rural Emergency Hospital Session 1: Laying the Foundation

Jonathan Pantenburg, MHA and Gregory Wolf, MBA of Wintergreen join Lara Brooks, MS from the Oklahoma Office of Rural Health to provide an overview of the Rural Emergency Hospital program recently established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The recording lasts approximately 56-minutes.

Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP) Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Best Practices

Janelle Shearer of StratisHealth joins Lara Brooks, MS from the Oklahoma Office of Rural Health to review best practices that facilities can implement to improve their scores on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) surveys. The presentation also includes content from several high-performing Oklahoma-based providers. The recording lasts approximately 68-minutes.