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Student Spotlight
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| Photo courtesy of Alva Review-Courier |
OSU CHS first-year medical student, Philip Ridgway, was recently featured in the
Alva Review-Courier newspaper. The article covered Ridgway's experiences as he completed a
Summer Rural Externship with Timothy Newton, DO at the Great Salt Plains Health Center in Cherokee, Oklahoma.
Read the article.
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WE ARE OKLAHOMA TURNING POINT! 2018 Turning Point Conference & Policy Day
Oklahoma Public Health Association Conference
September 25, 2018
Critical Access Hospital Conference
National Rural Health Day
November 15, 2018
Nationwide
NRHA Rural Health Policy Institute
February 5-7, 2019
Washington, D.C.
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Responsible for the rural medical education at OSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine, the OSU Center for Rural Health oversees the rural rotations of third & fourth year medical students. The Center also delivers programs aimed at providing Oklahoma's rural practitioners, hospitals, and clinics the support necessary to ensure access to quality healthcare for our state's rural residents.
For more information please visit our website
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NOSORH Seeking Nominations for Community Stars
Do you know someone that goes above and beyond for rural health in Oklahoma? If so, nominate them as a Community Star, and the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) could feature their story on National Rural Health Day.
Since 2015, the NOSORH Community Stars program has honored and given a personal voice to rural providers, advocates, and communities across the country. Their stories document just a few of the shining examples of service and dedication to the people who call rural America home. Ariel Lufkin, MD, Debra Button, and
Mercy Hospital Tishomingo were the Oklahoma recipients of Community Stars recognition in 2017.
View their stories.
Nominees can include individuals and organizations. The online nomination form is available on
NOSORH's website.
The deadline for nominations is August 24, 2018
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Two Oklahoma CAHs Recognized for Quality & Patient Satisfaction
Earlier this summer, the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) announced its slate of top critical access hospitals (CAH). Using a methodology developed by
iVantage Health Analytics, the NRHA recognized CAHs from across the nation that achieved success in quality and patient satisfaction.
The NRHA will honor all of the top CAHs at its annual Critical Access Hospital Conference on September 25th-28th in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Data Visualization: Changes in the Leading Causes of Death in Rural Oklahoma
A new data visualization prepared by the OSU Center for Rural Health provides a novel way of viewing the fifteen leading causes of death among rural Oklahomans over an 18-year span. The five leading causes (heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, and accidents), remained unchanged from 1999 to 2016 although the relative rank of the latter three did vary.
Outside of the top five, influenza and pneumonia ranked 6th in 1999 but dropped to 11th in 2016. Deaths attributed to Alzheimer's disease ranked 11th in 1999 and moved up to 6th in 2016. Other notable changes in the rankings included suicide increasing from 10th to 8th, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis rising from 13th to 10th, essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease moving from 15th to 12th, and septicemia dropping from 9th to 13th.
Click the image above to explore the data visualization.
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