Rural not always mean less when it comes to medical care.
As health care reform started, and we struggled to get the state budget passed, we have the opportunity to ensure that all Pennsylvanians have access to quality health care. Health and welfare of rural Pennsylvania, which affects the entire commonwealth. All but two of the 67 countries we have the rural population, 48 are predominantly rural and five rural really. But most of our resources go to urban areas, organizations, communities and residents. This includes health care.
Rural Pennsylvanians face several barriers when accessing health services. Four main areas:
The struggle to build and maintain the health of rural labor.
Deficiencies in rural health care infrastructure.
Lower insurance reimbursement for medical services.
Rural citizens increasingly underinsured and insured.
The numbers show it, the people live in rural areas, and rural supporters keep saying. An adequate supply of providers and practitioners is essential to quality health care for all citizens. rural residents require the same spectrum in the continuum of skilled health care providers – including primary care services, pre-hospital emergency medical, acute care, home health, rehabilitation, long-term care and nursing care at home – like their counterparts in urban and suburban.
Rural general population must travel outside their communities to meet the needs of tertiary health services. Local access to primary and secondary health care is very important to ensure that health issues are handled before they become too serious emergencies or expensive to treat.
This also means that access to preventive care and effective management of chronic conditions should be provided locally. Too often, the main treatments available and prevention is too rarely to serve all those in need.
Health professions shortage of labor among the issues facing the health system hospitals, and their communities today. For rural communities, the challenge is greater, because there is no infrastructure for training of clinical health services or health care delivery.
Travel financial barriers and increase their lead to a significant challenge for rural residents interested in becoming a health professional.
Pennsylvania is training national health staff. However, lack of resources and infrastructure in rural Pennsylvania-trained professionals to prevent many choose to practice in our rural communities. This includes doctors, nurses and other health care technicians, and nonclinical workers trained in social services, household and food services.
Maintaining strong health care industry has important consequences for the economic vitalityrural communities. Rural hospitals and primary care clinics, such as the Federal Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinic, providing quality health services for rural residents. A hospital is the main provider of health services in rural areas and often act as an anchor for the entire service continuum.
The closed hospital can significantly impact the local economy. Rural communities across the nation who have lost their local hospitals often have a domino effect, with the subsequent departure of primary care physicians, home health care damage, reduce medical supervision and access to health care in general. Rural communities are losing their hospitals to lose large companies. They lose the direct and “roll-over” of dollars from the requirement that large companies in their communities and often lose other health services throughout the continuum. In addition, they have reduced ability to attract new employers. Pennsylvanians
Rural play an important role in providing, agriculture, timber, mining and other business services to the economy of the commonwealth, however, 78 percent of rural businesses employ fewer than nine people. It’s very expensive to provide health insurance. When villagers went to the private insurance market, they tend to pay higher administrative costs, to find health insurance options less and underinsured.
Rural residents pay a higher proportion of their income for health insurance because the premium on American rural level comparable to or even higher than in urban areas. The average wage gap between urban and rural areas of more than $ 12,000. Because rural populations tend to be older and poorer, they are very dependent on public sources of coverage. For these reasons, rural residents and health care providers more influenced by changes in the scope and level of inadequate service payments in Medicare, Medicaid and State Child Health Insurance progrAm.
Rural Pennsylvanians tend to seek primary care and prevention and were more likely to be in poor health. This is the result of many factors, including low coverage rates, lower income, less comprehensive coverage and less access to health care providers. source of strong and reliable health care financing and insurance, as well as local access to health care, it is very important to improve the health status of rural population and results.
We have the opportunity, such as health reform will take place, to make a better difference in our rural communities to improve overall health and quality of life. Indeed, rural areas do not have to mean less when it comes to health care. Eisenhauer is a direct
Walt past president of the Pennsylvania Rural Health Association