Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Leadership
Rural Health Transformation Fund: Workforce Trends and Implications for Rural Care
Webinar presenting findings from a review of all 50 state Rural Health Transformation Fund plans, examining how workforce issues are framed, strategies that states are prioritizing, and how telehealth and digital health are reflected in workforce planning. Also explores the challenge of maintaining the workforce needed to support technology-enabled care in rural settings.
Additional links: PowerPoint, Transcript
Date: 05/2026
Sponsoring organization: National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers
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Webinar presenting findings from a review of all 50 state Rural Health Transformation Fund plans, examining how workforce issues are framed, strategies that states are prioritizing, and how telehealth and digital health are reflected in workforce planning. Also explores the challenge of maintaining the workforce needed to support technology-enabled care in rural settings.
Additional links: PowerPoint, Transcript
Date: 05/2026
Sponsoring organization: National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers
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'Our Peers Can Be The Best Teachers': Rural Hospitals Learn From One Another at Innovation Potluck
Highlights the second annual Rural Workforce Innovation Potluck, which brought together healthcare professionals from around the country to share experiences in rural recruitment, retention, and bridging workforce gaps.
Author(s): Gretel Kauffman
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 03/2026
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Highlights the second annual Rural Workforce Innovation Potluck, which brought together healthcare professionals from around the country to share experiences in rural recruitment, retention, and bridging workforce gaps.
Author(s): Gretel Kauffman
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 03/2026
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Factors Associated with High vs. Low Implementation of Medicare's Chronic Care Management Programme in Wyoming Primary Care Practices
Identifies factors associated with rural primary care practices' participation in the Medicare Chronic Care Management (CCM) program, using interview data of 13 healthcare professionals at 6 sites in Wyoming. Compares characteristics of high and low implementation sites, including discussion of healthcare team communication, evaluation, leadership, and more.
Author(s): Elizabeth Punke, Lucas A. Wall, Christine L. McKibbin, et al.
Citation: Primary Health Care Research & Development, 27, e19
Date: 02/2026
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Identifies factors associated with rural primary care practices' participation in the Medicare Chronic Care Management (CCM) program, using interview data of 13 healthcare professionals at 6 sites in Wyoming. Compares characteristics of high and low implementation sites, including discussion of healthcare team communication, evaluation, leadership, and more.
Author(s): Elizabeth Punke, Lucas A. Wall, Christine L. McKibbin, et al.
Citation: Primary Health Care Research & Development, 27, e19
Date: 02/2026
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Transforming Rural Hospitals Through Telehealth Partnerships: Strategic Playbook
Provides hospital leaders with strategies to foster telehealth partnerships within health systems to improve rural hospital financial sustainability, clinical capacity, and long-term viability. Discusses rural hospital strain as well as the economic, community, and population health value of rural hospitals and how telehealth partnerships can mitigate financial issues and create sustainability. Includes a telehealth partnership maturity model, practical framework, and rural hospital implementation considerations.
Author(s): E. Warr, B. Buquez, R. Kruis, J. Augenstein, J. McElligott
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organization: Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) - Telehealth Center of Excellence
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Provides hospital leaders with strategies to foster telehealth partnerships within health systems to improve rural hospital financial sustainability, clinical capacity, and long-term viability. Discusses rural hospital strain as well as the economic, community, and population health value of rural hospitals and how telehealth partnerships can mitigate financial issues and create sustainability. Includes a telehealth partnership maturity model, practical framework, and rural hospital implementation considerations.
Author(s): E. Warr, B. Buquez, R. Kruis, J. Augenstein, J. McElligott
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organization: Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) - Telehealth Center of Excellence
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Rural Public Health Training Plan
Training plan consisting of 6 courses for public health professionals working in rural communities. Covers an overview of rural public health systems, information on partnering with rural communities to develop, build, and disseminate public health communication strategies, leadership and conflict resolution skills, and more. Continuing education credits for this training plan are available through September 2, 2027, via CDC TRAIN.
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: CDC Office of Rural Health
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Training plan consisting of 6 courses for public health professionals working in rural communities. Covers an overview of rural public health systems, information on partnering with rural communities to develop, build, and disseminate public health communication strategies, leadership and conflict resolution skills, and more. Continuing education credits for this training plan are available through September 2, 2027, via CDC TRAIN.
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: CDC Office of Rural Health
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Facilitators of Strong Quality and Financial Outcomes in Critical Access Hospitals
Examines leadership traits, management strategies, and other governance and collaboration-based supports for positive quality and financial outcomes in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), utilizing insights from interviews of leaders at 10 CAHs which met high financial and quality benchmarks. Provides interview excerpts and identifies themes.
Author(s): Robert Barclay, Zoe Pringle, Megan Lahr, et al.
Date: 11/2025
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Examines leadership traits, management strategies, and other governance and collaboration-based supports for positive quality and financial outcomes in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), utilizing insights from interviews of leaders at 10 CAHs which met high financial and quality benchmarks. Provides interview excerpts and identifies themes.
Author(s): Robert Barclay, Zoe Pringle, Megan Lahr, et al.
Date: 11/2025
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Operational Challenges and Adaptive Leadership in Emergency Departments in the United States of America: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
Analyzes perspectives from emergency department (ED) leadership regarding operational challenges such as overcrowding, staffing shortages, and diminishing quality of care and provider well-being. Utilizes survey and interview data from ED leaders to examine adaptive strategies, evidence-based protocols, cross-professional collaboration, and more, with a focus on rural contexts included.
Author(s): Emmanuel Animashaun, Ellen Barnie Peprah, Olaoluwa Olorunfemi, et al.
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine, 25, 241
Date: 11/2025
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Analyzes perspectives from emergency department (ED) leadership regarding operational challenges such as overcrowding, staffing shortages, and diminishing quality of care and provider well-being. Utilizes survey and interview data from ED leaders to examine adaptive strategies, evidence-based protocols, cross-professional collaboration, and more, with a focus on rural contexts included.
Author(s): Emmanuel Animashaun, Ellen Barnie Peprah, Olaoluwa Olorunfemi, et al.
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine, 25, 241
Date: 11/2025
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Unlocking Local Leadership: Why Rural People Step Forward to Help Their Communities
Reports on attitudes toward and experiences of community engagement and formal leadership among people in rural areas via a poll conducted in June and July of 2025. Provides data on rural quality of life, community cohesion, community involvement, and facilitators and obstacles to leadership, with urban data comparisons for select topics.
Date: 11/2025
Sponsoring organizations: Gallup, LOR Foundation
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Reports on attitudes toward and experiences of community engagement and formal leadership among people in rural areas via a poll conducted in June and July of 2025. Provides data on rural quality of life, community cohesion, community involvement, and facilitators and obstacles to leadership, with urban data comparisons for select topics.
Date: 11/2025
Sponsoring organizations: Gallup, LOR Foundation
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Missouri's Civic Muscle Index
An interactive tool that measures healthy communities in Missouri. Includes domains such as belonging, social contribution, leadership, and community vitality. Provides county-level data as well as county-to-county comparisons.
Date: 10/2025
Sponsoring organization: University of Missouri Extension
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An interactive tool that measures healthy communities in Missouri. Includes domains such as belonging, social contribution, leadership, and community vitality. Provides county-level data as well as county-to-county comparisons.
Date: 10/2025
Sponsoring organization: University of Missouri Extension
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Strong Communities Start Here: Introducing Missouri's Civic Muscle Index
A recorded webinar that describes the development of the Civic Muscle Index, an interactive tool that measures healthy communities at the county level in Missouri. Focuses on domains such as belonging, social contribution, leadership, and community vitality. Transcript available below description.
Author(s): Claire Wolff Rippel, Angela Johnson, Jamie Kleinsorge
Date: 10/2025
Sponsoring organization: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
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A recorded webinar that describes the development of the Civic Muscle Index, an interactive tool that measures healthy communities at the county level in Missouri. Focuses on domains such as belonging, social contribution, leadership, and community vitality. Transcript available below description.
Author(s): Claire Wolff Rippel, Angela Johnson, Jamie Kleinsorge
Date: 10/2025
Sponsoring organization: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
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