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Check out our new Rural Health Equity Toolkit! It has evidence-based and promising strategies to advance health equity in rural populations @ruralhealthinfo ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

Our Rural Emergency Preparedness and Response Toolkit is featured in this new article from @dailyyonder

Multi-sector collaborations bring partners together to advance health equity and support healthy, thriving communities. This strategy (and others) are in our Rural Health Equity Toolkit ow.ly/a1Yj50LGe7e

#Rural communities are wonderful places to live and work, which is why nearly 61 million people call them home. #NationalRuralHealthDay is an opportunity to celebrate the #PowerOfRural by honoring the selfless, community-minded spirit that prevails in rural America.

Today is the day! Happy #NationalRuralHealthDay! Shout out to the incredible communities, organizations, and individuals who demonstrate the #powerofrural today and every day!

@ruralhealthinfo @NOSORH @usdaRD @NRHA_Advocacy @UMDHealthLit @FloridaLiteracy @ahahospitals @UAMS_CHL @LetsMoveLibrary Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this important discussion, @ruralhealthinfo and @NOSORH!

A8: Grant funding from federal agencies, philanthropic organizations, and other organizations may help programs improve rural health literacy. Our toolkit has more info on funding and sustainability #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A8: The @CMSgov Office of Minority Health (OMH) recognizes that improving health literacy can advance health equity. Health literacy is a priority area in the CMS Framework for Health Equity #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural cms.gov/about-cms/agen…

A8: The Rural Health Literacy #Toolkit has evidence-based and promising strategies rural communities can adapt to improve personal and organizational health literacy #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A8: Our #Rural Health Literacy #Toolkit is a one-stop-shop for strategies and resources to improve rural health literacy @ruralhealthfo @hrsa #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A7: Teaching health literacy skills at a young age may improve cognitive, physical, and emotional development processes for youth and may help with future health decision making #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural

A7: Leadership and community support are needed to improve organizational health literacy. Embedding health equity principles overall can also help rural organizations meet the health literacy needs of the people they serve #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural

A7: To improve health literacy, rural programs can incorporate health literacy into professional training, medical and residency training, certificate programs, and other continuing medical education #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural

A7: Community champions can help make rural health literacy programs successful. Champions are known and trusted by the community and can bring a sense of legitimacy and value to the goals of a program #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural

A6: @bistatepca is implementing the Vermont Food Access in Health Care consortium that focuses on health literacy by improving provider/patient communication to manage and understand dietary changes for health conditions #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A6: Using the train-the-trainer model, a program at @hslunc empowers library staff to answer questions about health services and increase community awareness of trustworthy sources for health information #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A6: Lake Okeechobee Rural Health Network, Inc. @LORHN1 provides health literacy education workshops called Your Health Matters and education about health insurance enrollment and financial literacy #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A6: The Salud y Vida con Amigos project from @DACinformation uses CHWs/Promotoras to identify health literacy challenges and increase the availability, acceptability, and use of COVID-19 information and services #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A6: Rural health literacy programs can focus on improving personal or organizational literacy. There are several models in our Rural Health Literacy Toolkit that communities can use and adapt #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A5: Organizations can hire and retain staff that share cultural values and speak the same language as community members. Providing language-concordant and translation services can help engage community members in care #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural

A5: The teach-back method is one approach to educating patients. Providers ask individuals to state, in their own words, the health information the provider shared, check for comprehension, and re-explain if needed #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural