{"id":6657,"date":"2021-11-05T09:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2021-11-05T09:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:07:39","slug":"transforming-rural-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2021\/11\/05\/transforming-rural-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming rural health care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Choi-rural-health.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Choi-rural-health-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of President Choi speaking at the BioSTL Rural Health Synmposium.\" class=\"wp-image-6658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Choi-rural-health-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Choi-rural-health-768x623.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Choi-rural-health.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Choi speaking at the BioSTL Rural Health Symposium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, I had the opportunity to speak at the BioSTL Rural Health Symposium and accept the invitation to be one of the founding partners of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforruralhealthinnovation.org\/\">Center for Rural Health Innovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new statewide partnership is yet another way we\u2019re collaborating to solve problems facing our approximately 2 million rural residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizzou has people and programs \u2014 such as our Springfield Clinical Campus and Extension offices \u2014 that share our research, education and outreach missions with every Missouri county and metro area. Other initiatives such as <a href=\"https:\/\/provost.missouri.edu\/mizzou-forward\/\">MizzouForward<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/precisionhealth.missouri.edu\/\">NextGen Precision Health<\/a> will help us offer even more lifesaving advances to communities that may be hours away from the nearest hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By working together on these lifesaving solutions, we fulfill our land-grant mission and improve the health and wellbeing of our citizens, no matter where they live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I had the opportunity to speak at the BioSTL Rural Health Symposium and accept the invitation to be one of the founding partners of the Center for Rural Health Innovation. This new statewide partnership is yet another way we\u2019re collaborating to solve problems facing our approximately 2 million rural residents. Mizzou has people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}