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Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP)

Description
Coordinates activities related to rural healthcare within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Part of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Focuses on matters affecting rural hospitals and healthcare, coordinating activities within the department that relate to rural healthcare, and maintaining a national information clearinghouse.
Tagged as
Conducting Research, Needs Assessments, and Evaluations · Critical Access Hospitals · Farmer Mental Health and Suicide Prevention · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Healthcare Access · Healthcare Payment · Healthcare Quality · Opioid Crisis · Rural Health Clinics · Rural Health Policy

Resources (97)

2024

  • 2024 FORHP Preview Webinar, 04/2024, view details
  • Fiscal Year 2024 Federal Office of Rural Health Policy Investments: Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Alabama Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Alaska Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Arizona Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Arkansas Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – California Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Colorado Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Connecticut Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Delaware Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Florida Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Georgia Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Hawaii Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Idaho Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Illinois Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Indiana Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Iowa Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Kansas Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Kentucky Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Louisiana Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Maine Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Maryland Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Massachusetts Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Michigan Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Minnesota Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Mississippi Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Missouri Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Montana Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Nebraska Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Nevada Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – New Hampshire Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – New Jersey Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – New Mexico Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – New York Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – North Carolina Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – North Dakota Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Ohio Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Oklahoma Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Oregon Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Pennsylvania Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Puerto Rico Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Republic of Marshall Islands Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Rhode Island Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – South Carolina Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – South Dakota Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Tennessee Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Texas Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Utah Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Vermont Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Virginia Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Washington Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – West Virginia Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Wisconsin Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details
  • FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Wyoming Fact Sheet, 11/2024, view details

2023

  • Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (RMOMS) Program, 09/2023, view details

2022

  • Federal Office of Rural Health Policy Grantee Stories, 11/2022, view details
  • Hidden in Plain Sight: Understanding the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking in Rural Communities, 11/2022, view details
  • National Rural Health Day HHS Leadership Panel, 11/2022, view details

2021

  • Determining Rural Communities: Current Changes and Updated Federal Program Eligibility, 03/2021, view details
  • HPSA 101 Webinar, 02/2021, view details
  • List of Rural Counties and Designated Eligible Census Tracts in Metropolitan Counties, 09/2021, view details

2020

  • HRSA Programs Serve Rural Communities, 11/2020, view details
  • Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Activities in Critical Access Hospitals, 11/2020, view details

2019

  • Critical Access Hospital Network (CAHN): Eastern Washington Critical Access Hospital Network's Rural Health Care Coordination Network Partnership Program, Washington, 2019, view details
  • Williamson Health and Wellness Center (WHWC): Community Health Worker Care Coordination Program, West Virginia, 2019, view details

2018

  • Rapid Review of Rural Health Research: Resources for the Five Leading Causes of Death, 01/2018, view details

2017

  • FY 2016 Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program Hospitals, 09/2017, view details

2015

  • Evaluation of the Frontier Community Health Care Coordination Network Grant, 09/2015, view details

2014

  • Financing Capital Investments in Rural Health Care: A Resource Overview, 01/2014, view details

2012

  • Office of Rural Health Policy Rural Guide to Health Professions Funding, 05/2012, view details

2010

  • Challenges for Improving Health Care Access in Rural America: A Compendium of Research and Policy Analysis Studies of Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Centers 2009-2010, 2010, view details
  • Evaluation of a Patient Assistance Program Pilot Project at Health Clinics in the Appalachian Region During Fiscal Year 2007 & 2008, 06/2010, view details

2007

  • Community-Based Needs Assessment: Assisting Communities in Building a Stronger EMS System, 2007, view details
  • Distance Education in EMS: A Literature Review and Rural/Urban Comparison, 2007, view details
  • The Office of Rural Health Policy Celebrates 20 Years: A Look Back at the History of the Office and Its Continued Mission to Improve Health Care in Rural America, 2007, view details
  • Public Health and Information Technology at the United States-Mexico Border: Examples Show Potential, 02/2007, view details
  • Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural & Frontier Emergency Medical Services in the U.S. Health System, 2007, view details
  • Rural Ambulance Crash: Literature Review, 2007, view details
  • Rural and Frontier EMS Agenda for the Future: A Service Chief's Guide to Creating Community Support of Excellence in EMS, 2007, view details
  • Rural and Frontier EMS Town Hall Meeting Summary, 2007, view details
  • Rural EMS Managers Awareness Program, 2007, view details

2006

  • Mental Health and Rural America: 1994-2005, 2006, view details
  • Training Community Health Workers: Using Technology and Distance Education, 04/2006, view details

2005

  • Rural Mental Health in the WICHE West: Meeting Workforce Demands through Regional Partnership, 03/2005, view details

2004

  • A History of the Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grant Program, 2004, view details
  • Modeling the Frontier Extended Stay Clinic Conditions of Participation and Reimbursement Methodologies, 2004, view details
  • Rural Health Research in Progress in the Rural Health Research Centers Program, 8th Edition, 02/2004, view details
  • Starting a Rural Health Clinic: A How-To Manual, 04/2004, view details

2003

  • Rural Health Research In Progress in the Rural Health Research Centers Program, 7th Edition, 03/2003, view details

2002

  • Rural Communities and Emergency Preparedness, 04/2002, view details

2000

  • Impact of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 on Rural Hospitals, 08/2000, view details

1993

  • Improving the Operational Definition of "Rural Areas" For Federal Programs, 1993, view details

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