Impact of Long-COVID-19 on rural and American Indian-serving primary care practices and their patients in Washington State (HERC Long COVID)

Status: Current

Rural and American Indian communities experience serious health disparities. Long-standing systemic health and social inequities place many rural residents at increased risk of contracting COVID-19 infection, severe illness, and death. We will survey participating providers and long-COVID-19 patients from 10 rural and American Indian-serving clinics to examine barriers and facilitators to care for long-COVID-19 patients and the impact of long-COVID-19 on patients, practices, and health care use. The partner clinics are part of Washington State University’s practice-based research network, Northwest Health Education Research Outcomes Network (NW HERON).

IREACH Programs

• Northwest Health Education and Research Outcomes Network

Principal Investigator(s)

• Patrik Johansson, MD, MPH

Team Member(s)

• Justin Denney, PhD
  Co-Investigator
• Carolyn Noonan, MS
  Analyst
• Anthippy Petras, MSW
  Project Director
• Solmaz Amiri, DDes, MSc
  Geospatial Analyst

Heath Research Initiatives

• American Indian and Alaska Native
• Rural