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MT Rural Health Initiative
PO Box 170520
Bozeman, MT 59717
Phone: 406.994.5310
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Thank you for being part of our network and encouraging health and wellness. Please let us know if we can be of any assistance.
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RHI News
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RHI is on Facebook!
Check out our page for news articles, event announcements, and links to great resources.
New Information Coming Soon to the RHI Website!
The RHI website is undergoing some remodeling. In the coming months the website will house evidence-based information and best-practice strategies. This information will align with RHI's three focus areas, Healthy Eating, Active Living, and Clinical and Community Preventive Services. The information will also be linked to profiles on RHI's website that provide examples of ways to use these strategies in a community setting.
The evidence-based information comes from the Community Guide to Preventive Services. The Community Guide
systematically reviews studies to determine if there is sufficient evidence to definitively say that an intervention is effective. We wanted to share these resources on our website because they demonstrate how community health interventions are effective as well as providing more examples of simple programs that have the potential to improve health in rural communities.
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Program Spotlight
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The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality offers Resources for Patients and Care Providers to Compare Treatment Options
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers a growing library of free resources, including summaries of researching findings for both healthcare providers (HCPs) and patients. The summaries address a variety of health conditions-such as diabetes, heart conditions, and mental health-and are presented in short, easy-to-read formats. These materials, developed through AHRQ's Effective Health Care (EHC) Program, can help HCPs and patients understand which treatments work best and how their risks compare, while allowing for individual choices.
As an advocate of informed and shared decision making, the Montana Office of Rural Health and Area Health Education Center is partnering with AHRQ's EHC Program to ensure you have access to these important resources.
For Patients: Know Your Treatment Options
AHRQ's new Treatment Options: Explore. Compare. Prepare. initiative encourages patients to use the resources to explore treatment options for a health condition, compare the benefits and risks of each, and prepare to discuss their options with their health care provider. Videos, treatment summaries, and other information can be found on the Treatment Options: Explore. Compare. Prepare. initiative Web site at www.ahrq.gov/treatmentoptions.
For Health Care Professionals: Get the Clinical Bottom Line
AHRQ understands that, for health care professionals (HCPs), every minute with a patient counts. The EHC Program clinician research summaries are designed to help HCPs quickly learn the "Clinical Bottom Line"-what the evidence says about treatment options benefits and risks, and the strength of evidence behind research findings. Each research summary also includes useful background on the health condition being addressed. Along with these resources AHRQ also offers free, accredited continuing medical education opportunities.
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Funding Opportunities
Practice Change Leaders for Aging and Health Program Grant
Agency: Atlantic Philanthropies/John A. Hartford Foundation
Deadline: September 23, 2013
More information:
Academy of General Dentistry Foundation Grant
Agency: Academy of General Dentistry
Deadline: October 31, 2013
Gallagher Koster Innovative Practices in College Health Grant
Agency: American College Health Foundation
Deadline: January 31, 2014
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Upcoming Events
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September 17, Webinar
Growing Healthy Kids: Updates in Elementary Nutrition Education
Presented by Connie Evers, speaker and author of "How to Teach Nutrition to Kids", contact Katie Bark at Montana Team Nutrition for more information or register for the webinar here.
September 25-26, Great Falls
Mobilizing Rural Communities ConferenceThe focus will be on developing capacity at the local community level and the efficacy of building regional partnerships for greater economic equality while collecting resources, contacts, and best practices to implement in their communities. http://www.ruraldynamics.org/mobilizing-rural-communities-conference
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