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Issue   Building Healthier Communities

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  1. Treating People Not the Same As Treating Illness

    Sep 08, 2016

    It’s no secret that health care is hardest to come by in rural parts of the country. But, as it turned out in at least one rural community, building more clinics did not help; what helped was building relationships. More than a decade ago, the Centers for Disease Control and more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Pennsylvania West Virginia

  2. New Wisconsin Video Promotes Nursing Diversity

    Sep 06, 2016

    The Wisconsin Center for Nursing, co-lead for the Wisconsin Action Coalition recently released Nursing in Wisconsin: Faces of the Future, a video to promote the critical need to build a diverse nursing workforce. The video features multiple, diverse nursing students from the Wisconsin Student Nurses Association as they showcase the many roles of nursing to more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: Wisconsin

  3. At Case Western, Students to Work Together to Prepare for Future Care

    Sep 02, 2016

    Beginning in 2019, a building larger than eight football fields will house an equally big idea: that students from multiple health fields should learn how to work together as they are mastering their fields. The Cleveland Clinic is the site of what will soon be the Case more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Location: Ohio

  4. National

    Leadership Webinar Features NOBC Head, 2 Emerging Leaders

    Aug 30, 2016

    Laurie Benson, BSN, RN, executive director of the Nurses on Boards Coalition, is headline speaker in a free webinar September 15 at 1 p.m. ET.  The Illinois Healthcare Action Coalition hosts Benson as she explains NOBC’s goal of increasing community health by boosting the number of nurses in leadership roles. Also speaking are two 40-under-40 emerging more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Illinois National

  5. When Disaster Calls, Nurses Respond

    Aug 25, 2016

    At least one nurse reading the call from the Red Cross for nurses to help in Louisiana answered immediately: For Cindy Holle, RN, DNP, Tuesday, August 23, was Day Two volunteering for those desperately in need after the flooding that started August 12. Holle was busy even more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Location: Connecticut Louisiana

  6. National

    FCC Mapping Tool Shows Links Between Internet Access, Health

    Aug 22, 2016

    In the United States, there is a high correlation between good access to the Internet and good health. We know this more precisely now thanks to a tool produced by the Federal Communications Commission’s Connect2Health task force. The Mapping Broadband Health in America more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

  7. National

    Nurses Needed to Give Aid to Flood Victims in Louisiana

    Aug 19, 2016

    The American Red Cross Disaster Health Services has stepped in to help the thousands who are without food and shelter since the flooding hit southern Louisiana, and seeks especially nurses and other health care professionals. Exact duties and demands change daily, but there are two broad requirements: You can make a nine-day commitment (seven days of more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Louisiana National

  8. “It’s Telling My Story”: Community-Engaged Research

    Aug 15, 2016

    The Pre-Term Birth initiative in California (PTBi-California) gives new meaning to community partnership in its effort to address a problem that disproportionately affects women of color and those who are poor. Working hand in hand with these women to both get and give help is more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: California

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