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Resources by Topic: Health workforce

Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report
Features information on notable accomplishments of 2024, a financial summary, undergraduate medical education, and graduate medical education in Georgia. Includes a section on physicians for rural areas, with statistics on numbers of award recipients in various loan repayment programs.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce
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State of Nursing in Kansas, 2024 Dashboard
Provides interactive data on the nursing profession in Kansas, with information on nurse demographics, work characteristics, and more. Includes county-level maps showing number of employed registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses/licensed vocational nurses (LPNs/LVNs), and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs).
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Nursing Workforce Center
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Mississippi State Department of Health 2024 Annual Report
Offers overview of public health indicators for residents of the state of Mississippi including mortality, teen birth rates, various health conditions, and vaccination. Discusses regulation and legislative changes, pharmaceutical programs, lab services, public health outreach, rural health and primary care, Health Professional Shortage Areas, and administrative updates.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Mississippi State Department of Health
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Kentucky Medical Laboratory Science Workforce Report 2024
Offers definitions of different types of medical laboratory science occupations, and features projected supply and demand in Kentucky and average salaries. Includes a section on the Medical Laboratory Science program offered at the University of Kentucky's Hazard campus, in rural eastern Kentucky.
Author(s): Frances J. Feltner, Caleb K. Williams, William Mace Baker
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health
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Hawai'i State Center for Nursing 2024 Annual Report: A Report for Governor Josh Green and the Hawai'i State Legislature
Provides an overview of the Hawaiʻi State Center for Nursing's activities in Fiscal Year 2024. Reports on the Center's funding structure, education and training programs, data gathering and research activities, and other efforts to improve nursing workforce recruitment, retention, and ability to provide high-quality care. Identifies workforce trends, and strategies for improvement. Highlights rural needs and projects.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Hawai'i State Center for Nursing
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Rural Healthcare Partnerships Toolkit: How North Carolina's Rural-Serving Community Colleges Leverage Partnerships to Meet Healthcare Workforce Needs
Toolkit highlighting partnerships between higher education, K-12 schools, healthcare employers, community-based organizations, and government agencies across the state of North Carolina to address rural healthcare workforce shortages in the state. Discusses opportunities for strengthening the healthcare workforce pipeline as well as reducing barriers to entering the pipeline through degree completion.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Rural Postsecondary Practices Partnership
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Kentucky Physical Therapy Workforce Report
Describes the Kentucky physical therapy workforce, using data from the Kentucky Board of Physical Therapy and the University of Kentucky Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) program. Features statistics on wages, type of workplace, people per provider ratios by county, and percent of Kentucky DPT graduates and distribution of physical therapists, with breakdowns by rural, urban, Appalachian, and Delta regions.
Author(s): Frances Feltner, Caleb K. Williams, Sierra Williams
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health
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How to Solve New Mexico's Health Care Worker Shortage
Proposes state-level policy and funding changes to address healthcare workforce shortages in New Mexico, covering topics including Medicaid reimbursement, financial incentives for education and practice, credentialing, workforce programs, and more. Highlights the needs of rural and tribal communities, including discussion of rural provider retention, workforce pipelines, the Rural Healthcare Tax Credit (RHTC), and state and federal cooperation with tribal nations.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Think New Mexico
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Maine Doula Workforce Assessment
Describes characteristics of doulas in Maine, their locations, the populations they serve, and what types of challenges Maine people face in accessing doulas' services. Includes information from online surveys conducted in 2023-2024. Mentions rural throughout.
Author(s): Sarah Tewhey, Cait Vaughan
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Maine Doula Coalition
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North Carolina Community Health Worker Program - 2024 Profile
Fact sheet with information about the Community Health Worker (CHW) program, including responsibilities and core competencies, and ways in which CHWs in North Carolina responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Includes a county-level map showing CHW organization supporting counties, with shadings indicating rural or urban counties.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Office of Rural Health
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