Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Funding
New Design Opens the Door to Improved Patient Care at Midwest Medical Center
Profiles the Midwest Medical Center, a hospital in rural Illinois. Discusses the building's remodel and collaboration with the USDA Rural Development Community Facilities program.
Author(s): Andrea Imel
Date: 07/2025
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Development
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Profiles the Midwest Medical Center, a hospital in rural Illinois. Discusses the building's remodel and collaboration with the USDA Rural Development Community Facilities program.
Author(s): Andrea Imel
Date: 07/2025
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Development
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Accessing Funding for Capital Projects in Rural Healthcare
Policy paper intended to provide information and inspire action, by enhancing current funding programs, removing barriers, directing more capital toward rural healthcare, and exploring new solutions. Features statistics on USDA community facilities loans and USDA healthcare guaranteed loans as a percentage of all USDA guaranteed loans.
Date: 06/2025
Sponsoring organizations: National Rural Health Resource Center, Stroudwater Associates
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Policy paper intended to provide information and inspire action, by enhancing current funding programs, removing barriers, directing more capital toward rural healthcare, and exploring new solutions. Features statistics on USDA community facilities loans and USDA healthcare guaranteed loans as a percentage of all USDA guaranteed loans.
Date: 06/2025
Sponsoring organizations: National Rural Health Resource Center, Stroudwater Associates
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Indian Health Service's Controls Over Sanitation Facilities Construction Program Projects Funded Under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Could Be Improved
Explores Indian Health Service (IHS) internal controls regarding identifying, recording, and tracking projects in the Sanitation Deficiency System (SDS) and ensuring that Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) funds are limited to eligible project costs. Offers recommendations to IHS to improve controls for identifying and recording SFC Program projects funded under IIJA and for ensuring IIJA funds are used only for eligible project costs.
Additional links: Report Highlights
Date: 05/2025
Sponsoring organization: Office of Inspector General (HHS)
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Explores Indian Health Service (IHS) internal controls regarding identifying, recording, and tracking projects in the Sanitation Deficiency System (SDS) and ensuring that Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) funds are limited to eligible project costs. Offers recommendations to IHS to improve controls for identifying and recording SFC Program projects funded under IIJA and for ensuring IIJA funds are used only for eligible project costs.
Additional links: Report Highlights
Date: 05/2025
Sponsoring organization: Office of Inspector General (HHS)
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Building Rural Capacity through Philanthropy
Video featuring participants in the Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership sharing how philanthropic investment can strengthen local healthcare systems and providers through capacity-building.
Date: 04/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Video featuring participants in the Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership sharing how philanthropic investment can strengthen local healthcare systems and providers through capacity-building.
Date: 04/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Plains and Southeast Areas Received Largest Share of Federal Community Facilities Program's Rural Hospital Funding, 2000 to 2020
Map comparing the amount of Community Facilities Program's rural hospital funding with rural hospital closures between 2000 and 2020 in the 8 Bureau of Economic Analysis geographic regions.
Author(s): Anil Rupasingha
Date: 04/2025
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
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Map comparing the amount of Community Facilities Program's rural hospital funding with rural hospital closures between 2000 and 2020 in the 8 Bureau of Economic Analysis geographic regions.
Author(s): Anil Rupasingha
Date: 04/2025
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
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Farm Bill Primer: Rural Development Title
Provides an overview of the rural development provisions of the 2018 Farm Bill, including provisions related to rural broadband, water and waste disposal, and business creation and economic development. Offers considerations Congress may consider in the 2025 reauthorization of the Farm Bill related to the ReConnect Program and rural health challenges.
Date: 04/2025
Sponsoring organization: Congressional Research Service
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Provides an overview of the rural development provisions of the 2018 Farm Bill, including provisions related to rural broadband, water and waste disposal, and business creation and economic development. Offers considerations Congress may consider in the 2025 reauthorization of the Farm Bill related to the ReConnect Program and rural health challenges.
Date: 04/2025
Sponsoring organization: Congressional Research Service
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Rural Health Philanthropy: Coming Together to Meet the Need
Video featuring participants in the Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership highlighting the benefits of attending the group's annual meetings and working together throughout the year to make a difference in rural communities.
Date: 04/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Video featuring participants in the Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership highlighting the benefits of attending the group's annual meetings and working together throughout the year to make a difference in rural communities.
Date: 04/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Rural Health Philanthropy: An Incubator for New Solutions
Video featuring representatives of philanthropic organizations discussing the importance of supporting rural communities and how rural projects can help funders discover innovative solutions.
Date: 04/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Video featuring representatives of philanthropic organizations discussing the importance of supporting rural communities and how rural projects can help funders discover innovative solutions.
Date: 04/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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A Guide to Working with Rural Philanthropy
Strategies for rural communities and organizations to help build and sustain partnerships with philanthropies. Includes background information on rural philanthropy and identifies actions and characteristics that may make a program successful in seeking funding from a philanthropy that wants to invest in rural health.
Date: 03/2025
Sponsoring organizations: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis, Rural Health Information Hub
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Strategies for rural communities and organizations to help build and sustain partnerships with philanthropies. Includes background information on rural philanthropy and identifies actions and characteristics that may make a program successful in seeking funding from a philanthropy that wants to invest in rural health.
Date: 03/2025
Sponsoring organizations: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis, Rural Health Information Hub
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North Carolina Medication Assistance Program: 2024 Profile
Fact sheet on funding, performance measures, and economic impact of the North Carolina Medication Assistance Program. Includes a county-level map showing Medication Assistance Program sites as of state fiscal year 2024.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Office of Rural Health
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Fact sheet on funding, performance measures, and economic impact of the North Carolina Medication Assistance Program. Includes a county-level map showing Medication Assistance Program sites as of state fiscal year 2024.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Office of Rural Health
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