HEREFORD, Texas (KFDA) – The Deaf Smith County Hospital District has received $750,000 in Rural Texas Strong funding to invest in health care for residents in Deaf Smith County and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n
The hospital applied through a competitive application process open to hospitals across Texas. The application required several pages of data, and the district waited about six months before learning it had won the funding.<\/p>\n
The funding will focus on diabetic patients. Rural areas see about a 14-percent increase in the diabetic population, according to hospital officials.<\/p>\n
The three-year program will provide education, address nutritional compliance and identify food disparities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe diabetic patients in our community have a need, and this gives us an opportunity to invest in their health care and improve their diabetic outcomes,\u201d said Candace Smith, CEO of Deaf Smith County Hospital District.<\/p>\n
Patients can also be enrolled in the hospital\u2019s community paramedicine program to ensure compliance at home, plus remote patient monitoring if needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis program just further exemplifies the excellent care that people can receive in a rural health facility. They don\u2019t have to travel to Amarillo, to BSA, or Northwest to receive their care,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n
Trevor Rahm, chief medical officer, said the three-year plan marks a shift from passive to active health care \u2014 tracking patients down, reaching them where they live, and starting with the hospital\u2019s existing community paramedic program before expanding to smaller surrounding towns. <\/p>\n
He said writing prescriptions isn\u2019t enough, and education is what\u2019s missing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so if you just go in every time and get your labs and they tell you their bad and keep giving medicine that doesn\u2019t fix the problem. So, the education component is going to be important. And that\u2019s what\u2019s missing in America today. Our health care system doesn\u2019t provide for education,\u201d said Rahm.<\/p>\n
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