Entries by jedlen@chartwell-agency.com
National Center for Rural Health Professions Featured in Forbes Article
In July 2019, the National Center for Rural Health Professions was featured in an article in a Forbes article titled, “Local Colleges May Be A Panacea For Rural America’s Healthcare Gap.” The article details the gap in rural America’s healthcare, and solutions to the country’s health service deserts which includes rural and other underserved communities. […]
NCRHP Receives Funding and Expands IL AHEC Network Program
The National Center for Rural Health Professions received additional grant funding totaling nearly $6.9 million through a competitive grant award from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration for the continuation of the Illinois Area Health Education Center Network Program (IL AHEC Network Program) through 2022. Established in 2010, the IL AHEC Network Program has […]
RMED Student Receives Grant Funding to Conduct Microresearch Project on Rural Surgery Workforce
Jarod Shelton, a fourth-year University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford medical student in the Rural Medical Education (RMED) Program, recently received grant funding from Rural Primary care, Research, Education, and Practice (PREP) for a microresearch project focused on the rural surgery workforce. Shelton’s project is titled Rural Surgery Workforce Assessment: A Survey of Midwestern States and […]
