Medicaid Expansion Helped Keep Rural Hospitals Open

  Obamacare Helped Keep Rural Hospitals Open The Medicaid expansion isn’t the only factor that affects whether rural hospitals stay open. George Pink, PhD, a professor of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, told Healthline that there are “three broad categories of reasons why rural… Read more »

Dr. Sleath Awarded 2018 Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences

The American Pharmacists Association has announced that Betsy Sleath, PhD is the recipient of the 2018 Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences.  The award recognizes and encourages outstanding, meritorious achievement in any of the pharmaceutical sciences.  Dr. Sleath will receive the award in March in Nashville.

Access to Mental Health Care Has Increased Under the Affordable Care Act

ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 15, 2017 – People with mental illness reported that they were more likely to be insured and thus better able to access health and mental health services following implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a new study published online today in Psychiatric Services in Advance. Effects were seen in states that had expanded… Read more »

Kathleen C. Thomas Receives 2017 Banks Award for Mentoring

Kathleen C. Thomas, PhD, MPH, was awarded the 2017 Steven M. Banks Award from the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association in recognition of outstanding mentoring and sponsorship of diverse mental health services researchers. Dr. Thomas is a Senior Research Fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, and… Read more »

Sleath Receives AHRQ Grant to Help African-Americans with Glaucoma

Betsy Sleath, Ph.D.   Sleath Receives $1.6 Million AHRQ Grant to Help African-Americans with Glaucoma Betsy Sleath, Ph.D., has received a grant worth nearly $1.6 million over four years from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help reduce vision problems in African-Americans caused by glaucoma. Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness… Read more »

Rural Team authors win ‘Article of the Year’ award 2017

Brystana Kaufman, MSPH, graduate student in health policy and management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, is first author of an article selected as The Journal of Rural Health’s inaugural Article of the Year. The article, “The Rising Rate of Rural Hospital Closures,” published in the journal’s winter 2016 print issue, was… Read more »

Camille McGirt, who works with Sheps Fellow Carol Golin, leads Healthy Girls Save the World (HGSW), a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve health outcomes for middle school girls through the promotion of healthy minds, bodies and relationships. HGSW has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. Read more… Read more »

George Pink from our Rural Program was recently featured on the Georgia NPR. Read the story here: http://wabe.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/georgia-rural-hospitals-struggle-survive

Brystana Kaufman from our Rural Program won an award for her work! HPM authors win ‘Article of the Year’ award

In a landmark study, UNC School of Medicine researchers have shown that blood glucose testing does not offer a significant advantage in blood sugar control or quality of life for type 2 diabetes patients who are not treated with insulin. The paper, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, details findings from a randomized trial called “The… Read more »

Dr. Laura Hanson on Improving Advanced Dementia Care in Nursing Homes

Sheps investigator Laura Hanson, MD, MPH is featured on the GeriPal podcast discussing her randomized control trial of a Goals of Care intervention for family decision makers of nursing home residents with advanced dementia. You can listen to the podcast here and watch the Goals of Care decision aid here.