Lannette Fetzer, quality improvement coordinator in the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health, received the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project Spirit Award at a national meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, convened by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.
The Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health — a joint partnership between the federal government, the commonwealth and Penn State — has been recognized as a national leader in quality performance by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.
A multi-disciplinary team at Penn State is working with the Pennsylvania Department of Health to support the implementation of the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model — a novel alternative payment program focused on rural hospitals, with an emphasis on containing health care spending and transforming care to better meet community needs.
The Lycoming County Commissioners were presented with the 2018 Community Rural Health Leaders of the Year Award by the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health at a ceremony on Nov. 9 at the Lycoming County Courthouse in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Jennifer Edwards joined the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health (PORH) in August 2018 as the office’s rural health systems manager and deputy director.
Larry Baronner, rural health systems manager and deputy director at the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health, received the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project Spirit Award on July 18 at a national meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, convened by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.
The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy has recognized ten states, including Pennsylvania, for outstanding quality performance of their Critical Access Hospitals in achieving the highest reporting rates and levels of improvement across the nation over the past year.
Shane Flickinger, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in health policy and administration in 2010 through a five-year, dual-degree option; and his wife, Mallory Flickinger, have pledged a gift to the College of Health and Human Development, which will support a health policy and administration undergraduate student who is completing an internship involving rural health initiatives and shows exemplary promise in the field.
Nicolas Jacoubs, an undergraduate student in the Penn State Department of Health Policy and Administration (HPA), is the recipient of the 2018 Jennifer S. Cwynar Community Achievement Award. The award recognizes community achievement by a HPA senior undergraduate student who has demonstrated service and commitment to a community or an underserved population, preferably in a rural area of Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health has received a $50,000 grant to fund a project entitled “Oral Health Status of Low-income Children in Pennsylvania: A Rural/Urban Comparison,” designed to improve the oral health of children in rural Pennsylvania. The project is funded by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a legislative agency of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
Sen. Bob Casey recently received the Rural Health Legislator of the Year Award, presented by the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health. This award recognizes an outstanding legislator from Pennsylvania for their work and support of rural health initiatives that address an identified need in their district or across the state.
In an effort to draw attention to the wide range of issues that impact rural health, Gov. Tom Wolf has declared Nov. 13-17 as Rural Health in Pennsylvania Week at the request of the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health and the Pennsylvania Rural Health Association.
Penn State nursing faculty members and an alumnus, who is a rural health leader, are recipients of The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing’s sixth annual Innovation Award.
The Pennsylvania SAFE-T Center, spearheaded by the College of Nursing and supported by the U.S. Department of Justice, showcased innovative telehealth technology at the opening of its simulation lab July 25.
Larry Baronner, rural health systems manager and deputy director at the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health (PORH), was awarded the 2017 Calico Leadership Award at the State Flex Program Reverse Site Visit in Bethesda, Maryland.
