Title: Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN
1Center for Rural Health
Faculty Assembly November 25, 2008
- Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN
- Associate Dean for Rural Health and Director
2Connecting resources and knowledge to
strengthen the health of people in rural
communities.
- Rural Health Research
- Rural Health Policy
- Rural Health Workforce
- Native American Health
- Education, Training and Resource Awareness
- Community Development and Technical Assistance
- Evaluation
3Making a difference
- Current budget 7.6 million
- Over 45 faculty and staff
- 11 Faculty
- 37 programs and research projects underway to
address a variety of rural health issues in North
Dakota and across the United States.
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7What does the Center for Rural Health do?
- Address rural community issues.
- Leverage funding for essential rural efforts.
- Drive the nations rural policy agenda.
- Establish national leadership.
- Share valuable rural health information
worldwide. - Serve as a model for the nations health care.
- Lead efforts on rural health technology
- Improve conditions for rural hospitals.
- Establish American Indian research efforts.
- Improve decision making through information
dissemination. - Improve understanding through research.
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9Leveraging funding for essential rural
efforts
- The Center provided 2.3 million in direct grant
dollars over the last year to rural communities.
10Driving the rural policy agenda
- National Testimony
- U.S. House Subcommittee on Immigration,
Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and
International Law in June 2008. - U.S. Senate Budget Committee
- State Testimony
11Establishing national leadership
- National Organization of State Offices of Rural
Health, President. - Leadership in the National Rural Health
Association - National and regional boards, committees, task
forces, and workgroups 71 entities
12Sharing rural health information
- U.S. administrators visit UND in December 2007 -
fifth year anniversary of the Rural Assistance
Center (RAC). - 4.4 million to UND
- nine people on staff
- an international online resource
designed to meet rural health
and human
services information needs. - Over 2.5 million visits
- (one million last year)
- Over 5,000 specific information
- requests from people in all 50 states and over
20 foreign countries - Prompts Health Workforce information Center
13Serve as a model for the nations health care
- In May 2008, The Commonwealth Funds Commission
on a High Performance Health System released a
national report, The North Dakota Experience
Achieving High-Performance Health Care Through
Rural Innovation and
Cooperation, that hails North Dakota as a
model of quality health care for both rural
and urban regions across the nation.
14Leading efforts on rural health technology
- The Center convenes and chairs the ND Health
Information Technology Steering Committee. - A committee of public and private stakeholders,
working to facilitate the adoption of HIT.
15Improving conditions for rural hospitals
- The Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility program
(Flex) provided over 290,000 in grants to 18
Critical Access Hospitals. - The Flex program provided 226 technical
assistance activities. - The program created a new statewide quality
improvement network comprised of 34 Critical
Access Hospitals. - The Small Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP)
provided 247,000 in grants to 29 small rural
hospitals.
16Establishing American Indian
health research efforts
- Coordinated the American Indian Health Research
Conference - a day-long event on campus for national speakers,
researchers, - students, and community members to learn
- How to do research with American Indian
communities - What research needs to be done
- How to partner with communities,
tribal colleges,
and researchers.
17Improving decision making through information
dissemination
- CRH Update, monthly e-newsletter 4,000
subscribers - Rural Health Research Alerts, occasional
e-notices 1,000 subscribers - Flex Updates, monthly e-newsletter 80
subscribers - Native Aging Visions, twice a year newsletter,
3,500 subscribers - The Rural Monitor, RACs quarterly national
newsletter 5,800 subscribers. - RAC Health Update, twice a month listserv, 4,500
subscribers - RAC Human Services Update, monthly listserv,
3,800 subscribers
18Improving understanding through research
- Partners with the University of Minnesota in the
Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center - Leads the national Rural Health Research Gateway
project - Building Research Infrastructure and Capacity
(BRIC) project - ND Nursing supply and demand
19For more information contact Center for
Rural HealthUniversity of North DakotaSchool of
Medicine and Health SciencesGrand Forks, ND
58202-9037
Tel
(701) 777-3848 Fax (701) 777-6779
ruralhealth.und.edu