Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Community and economic development
Community Benefit and Impact of Critical Access Hospitals: The Results of the 2007 CAH Survey
Reports results from a 2007 survey of 381 Critical Access Hospital (CAH) administrators assessing the community benefit and overall impact of CAHs, their activities, and their efforts to address unmet community health needs.
Date: 03/2008
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Reports results from a 2007 survey of 381 Critical Access Hospital (CAH) administrators assessing the community benefit and overall impact of CAHs, their activities, and their efforts to address unmet community health needs.
Date: 03/2008
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Status and Future of Health Care Delivery in Rural Wyoming
Provides findings from an analysis of healthcare service delivery in rural Wyoming. Includes an overview of Wyoming's population and the healthcare service delivery system. Covers workforce recruitment and retention, the economic impact of the healthcare system, and other topics.
Additional links: Summary Report
Date: 06/2007
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
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Provides findings from an analysis of healthcare service delivery in rural Wyoming. Includes an overview of Wyoming's population and the healthcare service delivery system. Covers workforce recruitment and retention, the economic impact of the healthcare system, and other topics.
Additional links: Summary Report
Date: 06/2007
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
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Economic Importance of the Health Care Sector on a Rural Economy
Presents a model that measures direct and secondary employment and income impacts of the health sector, using a rural Oklahoma community as a case study.
Author(s): Gerald A. Doeksen, Val Schott
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 3(2), 135
Date: 05/2002
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Presents a model that measures direct and secondary employment and income impacts of the health sector, using a rural Oklahoma community as a case study.
Author(s): Gerald A. Doeksen, Val Schott
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 3(2), 135
Date: 05/2002
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READY Nonprofits Training Program Curriculum
Self-guided study materials, designed to help Appalachian Regional Commission applicant and grantee stakeholder groups strengthen operations, programming, and fundraising to better fulfill their missions and bolster local economies. Features units on programs and operations, strategic planning, board development, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Appalachian Regional Commission
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Self-guided study materials, designed to help Appalachian Regional Commission applicant and grantee stakeholder groups strengthen operations, programming, and fundraising to better fulfill their missions and bolster local economies. Features units on programs and operations, strategic planning, board development, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Appalachian Regional Commission
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READY Community Foundations Training Program Curriculum
Training materials designed to help community foundations strengthen operations, programming, and fundraising to better fulfill their missions and bolster local economies. Originally created for the 2024 READY Community Foundations cohort. Features units on fundraising, grantmaking, and community impact.
Sponsoring organization: Appalachian Regional Commission
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Training materials designed to help community foundations strengthen operations, programming, and fundraising to better fulfill their missions and bolster local economies. Originally created for the 2024 READY Community Foundations cohort. Features units on fundraising, grantmaking, and community impact.
Sponsoring organization: Appalachian Regional Commission
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Measuring Community Capacity Building: A Workbook-in-Progress for Rural Communities
Workbook providing guidance for local organizations to improve goal-setting, decision-making, and implementation of community and economic development programs and other civic activities. Updated over time as new information becomes available.
Sponsoring organization: Aspen Institute
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Workbook providing guidance for local organizations to improve goal-setting, decision-making, and implementation of community and economic development programs and other civic activities. Updated over time as new information becomes available.
Sponsoring organization: Aspen Institute
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CDFI Success Stories
Highlights economic development and business success stories funded through Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), including investments in rural healthcare and community development projects. Stories may be filtered by state, district, CDFI, and project type, with detailed information on project funding and structure available for select entries.
Sponsoring organization: CDFI Coalition
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Highlights economic development and business success stories funded through Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), including investments in rural healthcare and community development projects. Stories may be filtered by state, district, CDFI, and project type, with detailed information on project funding and structure available for select entries.
Sponsoring organization: CDFI Coalition
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Rural Economic Development Tool
Dashboard providing county-level data on employment, income, economic function, Internet infrastructure, population, housing, and more. Data may be compared among individual counties, by other counties with similar levels of rurality, and state and national trends, among other metrics.
Sponsoring organization: Center on Rural Innovation
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Dashboard providing county-level data on employment, income, economic function, Internet infrastructure, population, housing, and more. Data may be compared among individual counties, by other counties with similar levels of rurality, and state and national trends, among other metrics.
Sponsoring organization: Center on Rural Innovation
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Rural Georgia Voices Podcast
Podcast from the Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center that explores the role healthcare plays to support, improve, and maintain the health and well-being of rural residents in Georgia.
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center
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Podcast from the Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center that explores the role healthcare plays to support, improve, and maintain the health and well-being of rural residents in Georgia.
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center
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Brookings-AEI Commission on US Rural Prosperity
Conducts research and provides policy recommendations on rural community and economic development, including topics such as rural healthcare systems and health outcomes, demographics, workforce, and environment.
Sponsoring organizations: American Enterprise Institute (AEI), The Brookings Institution
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Conducts research and provides policy recommendations on rural community and economic development, including topics such as rural healthcare systems and health outcomes, demographics, workforce, and environment.
Sponsoring organizations: American Enterprise Institute (AEI), The Brookings Institution
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