Rural Project Examples: Health occupations
Other Project Examples
Queen Anne's County Mobile Integrated Community Health (MICH) Program
Updated/reviewed May 2025
- Need: To connect patients to resources in order to reduce use of emergency services, emergency department visits, and hospital readmissions.
- Intervention: Patients receive support (by in-person visit, phone call, or telehealth visit) from a paramedic, community health nurse, peer recovery specialist, and pharmacist.
- Results: Between July 2016 and March 2024, the program made 1,098 patient contacts and continued to see a reduction in emergency department and inpatient visits and costs.
Regional Behavioral Health Network
Updated/reviewed April 2025
- Need: Multiple organizations in rural east central Illinois needed a more efficient, centralized system for referring patients experiencing a behavioral health crisis to appropriate treatment services.
- Intervention: The Regional Behavioral Health Network was established with a 24-hour toll-free crisis line, providing immediate access to trained crisis clinicians.
- Results: Improved access to high quality behavioral healthcare for patients in rural east central Illinois.
ROAMS (Rural OB Access & Maternal Service)

Updated/reviewed April 2025
- Need: To improve maternal health in northeastern New Mexico.
- Intervention: The Rural OB Access & Maternal Service program provides obstetric and maternal fetal medicine telehealth, home telehealth kits, and free access to lactation consultants and family navigators.
- Results: ROAMS has worked with 2,000 unique individuals since July 2021.
Simulation in Motion-South Dakota (SIM-SD) EMS Educational Outreach Program
Updated/reviewed April 2025
- Need: To provide increased educational opportunities for emergency care personnel in rural and frontier South Dakota.
- Intervention: A technologically advanced training was created to enhance the delivery of emergency patient care.
- Results: Hundreds of emergency medical services (EMS) staff and volunteers received training that in turn helped them in the field of emergency patient care.
Targeted Rural Underserved Track (TRUST) Program

Updated/reviewed April 2025
- Need: There is a shortage of rural physicians in the Northwestern United States.
- Intervention: University of Washington medical students are receiving training through the TRUST program in rural communities across a five-state radius.
- Results: Long-lasting connections have been formed among regional communities, medical students, and rural health professionals, with the goal of producing more rural physicians.
University of Minnesota Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Rural Rotation
Updated/reviewed April 2025
- Need: To address shortages of nurse practitioners and mental health professionals in rural Minnesota.
- Intervention: The University of Minnesota (UMN) School of Nursing implemented a 40-hour rural rotation for students in the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner program.
- Results: 29 students completed rural rotations in communities across the state; several students voiced a new openness to practicing in a rural area after participating in the program.
The Possibility Shop
Updated/reviewed March 2025
- Need: To connect people in need in Allegany County, Maryland, to health and human services and to items like hygiene products, food, and clothing.
- Intervention: The Possibility Shop partners with health organizations, insurance navigators, food banks, and other agencies.
- Results: In 2024, 15,246 service encounters occurred and 940 intakes to services were performed.
Coast to Forest: Mental Health Promotion in Rural Oregon and Beyond
Updated/reviewed January 2025
- Need: To promote mental health and prevent substance use disorders in rural Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska.
- Intervention: Coast to Forest strengthens local capacity through training, technical assistance, education, and community partnerships.
- Results: In its five years of operation, the project has trained over 800 individuals across the Pacific Northwest in Mental Health First Aid, developed 100 county-level resource guides, organized a series of Community Conversations in five rural Oregon counties, and more.
Rural Nevada EMS Conference
Updated/reviewed January 2025
- Need: To provide rural Nevada EMS personnel an opportunity to receive quality training and current EMS information from national EMS educators.
- Intervention: The Rural Nevada EMS Conference offers continuing education units and engaging sessions for EMS personnel.
- Results: In 2024, 185 individuals attended the conference in-person.
Healthy Mujeres in the Texas Rio Grande Valley
Added December 2024
- Need: To provide basic pregnancy-related and preventive health services to women in the Texas Rio Grande Valley.
- Intervention: A mobile clinic travels to different communities and provides basic preventive care, contraception, and pregnancy testing and ultrasounds.
- Results: Since the program began, clinical staff have provided services to nearly 6,000 women.
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