The Rural COPD Podcast Episode 1

National Rural Health Resource Center Podcasts

The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) has partnered with Dr. Bill Auxier of Rural Health Leadership Radio to produce a six-part podcast series about Rural Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its prevalence in rural America. This series from The Center provides information about COPD, how rural providers are meeting the needs of their communities, and the importance of billing and coding appropriately while ensuring quality of care is being addressed. Each podcast features a guest with expert knowledge in COPD and rural health.

Episode 1 featuring Grace Anne Dorney-Koppel

• Grace Anne Dorney Koppel is President of the Dorney-Koppel Foundation, the immediate former President and a current board member of the COPD Foundation, and chair of the Advocacy and Public Policy Committee for COPD Foundation. Grace Anne is also a COPD patient, diagnosed in 2001.
• Grace Anne explains COPD’s prevalence, its symptoms, the stigma surrounding the disease, her personal experiences with COPD, the challenges of COPD treatment in rural communities, her work with the Dorney-Koppel Foundation, and the path to success with COPD.