Important work shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Rural training (UME & GME) continues to be important for producing rural physicians. #PowerOfRuralCats jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Rural Background, Training, and Practice Location Among US Physicians

This cross-sectional study assesses the interdependence of rural background and training as factors associated with rural practice among US physicians.

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Alternatively: Don't use composite outcomes. academic.oup.com/jrsssc/advan...

The University of Michigan's Survey Research Center @um-src.bsky.social is seeking motivated New Yorkers to serve as field interviewers on the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey. recruit.isr.umich.edu/jobs/658306-...

Field Interviewer New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey August 2026 - The University of Michigan

If you have not yet done so please read the full description by clicking on the (v). You are encouraged to apply, regardless of your current work assignment.

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If you deny that COVID pushed our hospitals to the limit, vaccines work, and healthcare workers are heroes, you should not be allowed to hold public office, let alone lead a health agency.

A must read - a preview of what’s to come en masse when Medicaid work reporting requirements start nationwide. A pregnant woman loses coverage by mistake.. long waits lines for the call center.. People are scared. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

Nebraska becomes first state to disenroll Medicaid recipients under new work requirements

The first work requirement-related disenrollments begin in Nebraska on Saturday. While the state Medicaid director estimates this will impact 200 Nebraskans, advocates are concerned that the number wi...

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Timeline cleanse: rural.

Hannah Pingree at the #MilesDelivers action coalition protest against #MaineHealth’s decision to close labor and delivery #Maine

Sam the rural health advoCATe’s guardian grew up in a rural area where one older lady foraged the roadsides for mushrooms. Guardian’s parents were smart enough not to even consider it. And made a point of communicating this to guardian.

Keri Crewson, M.D.@kericrewsonmd.medsky.social · 4d ago

Montana doc problems.

Appreciate the study, but...The questions regarding "reasons" for gun ownership are limited to 2 items pertaining to perceived safety. Sam the rural health advoCATe notes that rural is different. Deer aren't going to harvest themselves. #PowerOfRuralCats jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Guns and Perceptions of Safety Among US Women

This survey study examines perceptions of safety related to firearm ownership among women in the US.

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Rural residents are appropriately wary of “robots for the rubes, actual care for us,” urban-centric health care policy, hisses Sam the rural health advoCATe. #PowerOfRuralCats dailyyonder.com/patients-war...

Patients Wary of Governments, Companies Pushing AI as a Rural Healthcare Solution | The Daily Yonder

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Two of the nation’s most powerful health officials predict artificial intelligence will play a key

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All this talk about the early, terrifying days of Covid .. and I couldn't help but look back at a project I worked on at the time. We memorialized the lives of people who ran into the burning building. Time well spent and worth a moment of yours: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Lost on the frontline: US healthcare workers who died fighting Covid-19

More than 3,500 Americans in the healthcare system have died fighting Covid-19. We count them and investigate why

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for an intern's POV, we decided to ask AI: Actual interns.

Sadly shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. This crisis has multiple contributors and will not be resolved until health care is designed and funded as an essential infrastructure element. #PowerOfRuralCats

Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP@soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Maternal mortality—death during pregnancy, childbirth, and the first six weeks after delivery—averaged 81% higher in rural areas than in urban ones from 2016-2019. Since 2005, 109 rural hospitals have closed outright. As of 2023, 60 percent of rural counties had no hospital-based obstetric care.“

I spent much of my fellowship from 2019-2020 researching and writing about the dangers of private equity in healthcare. Many even within healthcare didn’t see the writing on the wall or understand what was happening and, admittedly, a lot of other important things happened in healthcare that year.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last wk.

Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on the roof of a hospital. Inside American Healthcare System, the for-profit healthcare behemoth driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos.

Sam the rural health advoCATe agrees with this assessment. Funding for rural health services cannot survive on a pay-per-unit model, but needs a steady tax base or cost-based funding. #PowerOfRuralCats www.milbank.org/2026/07/bake...

Bake Sales Won’t Sustain Wyoming EMS, but a Few Reforms Might  | Milbank Memorial Fund

Emergency medical services (EMS) are basic lifesaving infrastructure for any community.

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Exactly, hisses Sam the rural health advoCATe. Meaningless cuts that will devastate rural communities. #PowerOfRuralCats

Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)@markanthonyneal.bsky.social · last wk.

'Millions of women of childbearing age live in counties where there's no place to give birth. Nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts could devastate labor-and-delivery services in already struggling hospitals.' 19thnews.org/2026/07/mate...

Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD

American science has never advanced through American talent alone. International students bring expertise, ideas, and perspectives that make the entire scientific community, and economy, much stronger. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Policy changes for international students threaten U.S. competitiveness — Harvard Gazette

Garber offers assessment at D.C. event, saying shifts will discourage the world's best and brightest from coming here for research and study.

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Sam the rural health advoCATe hopes this project includes data pertaining to rural communities. @nationalacademies.org #PoerOfRuralCats www.nationalacademies.org/projects/CHP...

Data and Situational Awareness for Medical and Public Health Preparedness and Response: A Workshop Series

The Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies will convene a public workshop series on the use of data to support situational awareness for medical and public healt...

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Per @asanews.bsky.social email, after being cut off by NSF, ASA is ending the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.

Sam the rural health advoCATe agrees with this CEO. As urban hospitals are already tapping into rural funds by seeking CMS classification as "administratively rural," this problem is already widespread. It will repeat. #PowerOfRuralCats www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-man...

Rural hospital CEO sees 'no hope in the rural health transformation funds' - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis

Hillsdale Hospital CEO JJ Hodshire dismisses the $50B Rural Health Transformation Program and details a specialty-growth strategy.

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Sam the rural health advoCATe is purrleased to share new work on rural public health. #PowerOfRuralCats www.ovid.com/jnls/jphmp/a...

Engaging Rural Practitioners and Community... : Journal of Public Health Management & Practice

Objective:The Northeastern United States experienced the highest rates of synthetic opioid overdose deaths in 2019, and in 2020, 3 of the 8 states...

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The FDA used to have a warning on its website against bogus autism “remedies,” eg, the dangerous—sometimes deadly—chelation pushed by RFK Jr & his antivaxx ally David Geier RFK Jr ordered the warnings to be removed 😢 Anyone who tells me I must “find common cause” with MAHA & its leader can STFU

Darkest Timeline@darkest-timeline.bsky.social · 2w ago

I remember when RFK jrs fans were into chelation. I've got a 20 something autistic kid, and it was part of his antivax nonsense.

getting the basic standard of care for a loved one with psychosis is an absolute nightmare in this country if you aren’t wealthy. this is compounded by the stigma—hell, the only time most people even use the word is when speculating on shootings in the news or using it as a pejorative online.

#OTD in 1972, a journalist exposed the Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee — a government-run experiment that withheld treatment from Black men for 40 years. The U.S. didn’t formally apologize until 1997. #TheMarchContinues #MedicalRacism

Sam the rural health advoCATe is purr-leased to share new work on rural public health. #PowerOfRuralCats www.ovid.com/jnls/jphmp/a...

Engaging Rural Practitioners and Community... : Journal of Public Health Management & Practice

Objective:The Northeastern United States experienced the highest rates of synthetic opioid overdose deaths in 2019, and in 2020, 3 of the 8 states...

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I heard a story on @npr.org today about FDA approval of sunscreens and they discussed the case for “peer approval” (automatically approving drugs if a sister agency in another country had). I was shocked they didn’t mention this story for context:

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey single-handedly blocked the "wonder drug" thalidomide (US, FDA, 1960) & saved American children from severe birth defects. The first woman to earn a PhD in pharmacology, she used her expertise & immense courage to defy intense industry pressure. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

MMIW is a rural issue.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2w ago

Great feature on Alaska Native communities bracing for an influx of man camps and the sexual violence that comes with them. CN for discussions of sexual and physical assault.

Rural beneficiaries are less likely to be participants in any value-based care models. Sam the rural health advoCATe agrees this may limit the applicability of any findings re such models to rural. But given “value for whom?” may rural is lucky? #PowerOfRuralCats jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Representation in Medicare’s Value-Based Payment Models

This cross-sectional study characterizes beneficiaries who received care through Medicare’s largest voluntary payment models from 2013 to 2022.

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