Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Health occupations
Medicare Enrollment for Providers & Suppliers
Provides information and resources for physicians, healthcare practitioners, suppliers, and institutional organizations that want to enroll as a Medicare provider or supplier. Includes information on enrollment events, moratoria, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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Provides information and resources for physicians, healthcare practitioners, suppliers, and institutional organizations that want to enroll as a Medicare provider or supplier. Includes information on enrollment events, moratoria, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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SAMHSA Recovery Resource Center
Provides resources and information for behavioral health recovery support and services. Highlights information on evidence-based practices, workforce development, and access to care for recovery services. Includes resources for rural and tribal communities.
Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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Provides resources and information for behavioral health recovery support and services. Highlights information on evidence-based practices, workforce development, and access to care for recovery services. Includes resources for rural and tribal communities.
Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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Rural Maternal Health County Data Repository
An interactive county-level maternal health data repository that provides information on hospital obstetric (OB) services availability, population characteristics, maternal health provider workforce supply, and maternal health and birth outcomes. Includes county, state, and national maternal health data comparisons as well as a county-level map showing if and when OB services have been lost.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Maternal Health Data Support and Analysis Program
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An interactive county-level maternal health data repository that provides information on hospital obstetric (OB) services availability, population characteristics, maternal health provider workforce supply, and maternal health and birth outcomes. Includes county, state, and national maternal health data comparisons as well as a county-level map showing if and when OB services have been lost.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Maternal Health Data Support and Analysis Program
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Nebraska Loan Repayment Maps
Interactive county-level maps that show primary care, mental, dental, and allied health professional loan repayment award opportunities in Nebraska. Includes locations of National Health Service Corps (NHSC) sites and federal and/or state workforce shortage areas.
Sponsoring organization: Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
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Interactive county-level maps that show primary care, mental, dental, and allied health professional loan repayment award opportunities in Nebraska. Includes locations of National Health Service Corps (NHSC) sites and federal and/or state workforce shortage areas.
Sponsoring organization: Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
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Georgia Department of Community Health Annual Report: Fiscal Year 2025
Outlines the Department of Community Health's key financial and performance highlights from 2025. Includes sections on achievements of the State Office of Rural Health and the Farmworker Health Program.
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Department of Community Health
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Outlines the Department of Community Health's key financial and performance highlights from 2025. Includes sections on achievements of the State Office of Rural Health and the Farmworker Health Program.
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Department of Community Health
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Four Northwoods Towns Unite to Rebuild EMS — and Cut Response Times in Half
Discusses emergency medical service (EMS) access in rural Vilas County, Wisconsin. Includes a video about the service sharing agreement reached by 4 towns to provide EMS with full-time paramedics and EMTs.
Author(s): Jason Weiss, Will Cushman
Sponsoring organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Discusses emergency medical service (EMS) access in rural Vilas County, Wisconsin. Includes a video about the service sharing agreement reached by 4 towns to provide EMS with full-time paramedics and EMTs.
Author(s): Jason Weiss, Will Cushman
Sponsoring organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Nursing Facilities in Rural Areas
Offers a group of data tables comparing rural and urban data at the state level for a variety of distribution, payer, ownership, quality, and nurse workforce staffing indicators in certified nursing facilities. Data available annually between 2015 and 2025.
Sponsoring organization: KFF
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Offers a group of data tables comparing rural and urban data at the state level for a variety of distribution, payer, ownership, quality, and nurse workforce staffing indicators in certified nursing facilities. Data available annually between 2015 and 2025.
Sponsoring organization: KFF
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UVM CORA Co-Occurring PTSD and OUD Toolkit
Toolkit provides evidence-based assessments, treatment and training materials, and educational resources for behavioral health professionals providing care to rural people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and opioid use disorder (OUD). Discusses the challenges of treating OUD with co-occurring PTSD and highlights strategies for assessment, counseling, and/or referrals.
Sponsoring organization: University of Vermont Center on Rural Addiction
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Toolkit provides evidence-based assessments, treatment and training materials, and educational resources for behavioral health professionals providing care to rural people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and opioid use disorder (OUD). Discusses the challenges of treating OUD with co-occurring PTSD and highlights strategies for assessment, counseling, and/or referrals.
Sponsoring organization: University of Vermont Center on Rural Addiction
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Oral Health Professional Supply and Non-Traumatic Dental Emergency Department Visits in California
Interactive dashboard providing data on rates of non-traumatic dental emergency department visits compared with the supply of dental specialists and oral health professionals at the county level in California. Includes additional data on expected payer for ED visits by region of California.
Sponsoring organization: California Department of Health Care Access and Information
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Interactive dashboard providing data on rates of non-traumatic dental emergency department visits compared with the supply of dental specialists and oral health professionals at the county level in California. Includes additional data on expected payer for ED visits by region of California.
Sponsoring organization: California Department of Health Care Access and Information
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Indiana Youth Institute 2026 County Dashboard
An interactive dashboard that provides county-level data on Indiana youth, with a focus on topics such as family and community, health, economic well-being, and education. Users can select for county and see data broken down by topics such as youth in foster care, access to exercise, mental health provider supply ratios, food insecurity, youth employment, graduation rates, early education, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Youth Institute
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An interactive dashboard that provides county-level data on Indiana youth, with a focus on topics such as family and community, health, economic well-being, and education. Users can select for county and see data broken down by topics such as youth in foster care, access to exercise, mental health provider supply ratios, food insecurity, youth employment, graduation rates, early education, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Youth Institute
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