Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Mobile and episodic healthcare delivery
Addressing Behavioral Health Needs in Rural North Carolina: A Community Paramedicine Approach
Profiles a mobile integrated healthcare-community paramedicine (MIH-CP) model in rural western North Carolina that supports rural residents with complex medical, behavioral health, and social needs. Discusses the MIH-CP's behavioral healthcare staffing, funding, and services, providing implementation strategies for rural areas interested in expanding sustainable community paramedicine services.
Author(s): Ashley Jasko
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
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Profiles a mobile integrated healthcare-community paramedicine (MIH-CP) model in rural western North Carolina that supports rural residents with complex medical, behavioral health, and social needs. Discusses the MIH-CP's behavioral healthcare staffing, funding, and services, providing implementation strategies for rural areas interested in expanding sustainable community paramedicine services.
Author(s): Ashley Jasko
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
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Closer to Home: Strengthening Rural Emergency Care Through EMS, Trauma Systems, and Mobile Integrated Health
Describes ways in which North Carolina is improving rural healthcare by connecting emergency medical services, mobile integrated health, and trauma systems. Discusses the state's Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) investment and offers suggestions for ensuring sustainable funding, workforce investment, and regional partnerships.
Author(s): Kimberly Clement
Citation: North Carolina Medical Journal, 87(3)
Date: 09/2026
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Describes ways in which North Carolina is improving rural healthcare by connecting emergency medical services, mobile integrated health, and trauma systems. Discusses the state's Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) investment and offers suggestions for ensuring sustainable funding, workforce investment, and regional partnerships.
Author(s): Kimberly Clement
Citation: North Carolina Medical Journal, 87(3)
Date: 09/2026
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Strategies to Address the Rural Access Gap in Substance Use Services
Describes how community paramedicine and mobile substance use care units can address barriers to substance use treatment in rural areas, and how these programs can be supported at the state level via Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) funding.
Author(s): Rebekah Falkner
Date: 07/2026
Sponsoring organization: National Academy for State Health Policy
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Describes how community paramedicine and mobile substance use care units can address barriers to substance use treatment in rural areas, and how these programs can be supported at the state level via Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) funding.
Author(s): Rebekah Falkner
Date: 07/2026
Sponsoring organization: National Academy for State Health Policy
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Mobile Health Operations: A Foundational Planning Guide for Health Centers
Offers guidance to health center leaders and staff regarding the core planning and operational decisions needed to launch, standardize, optimize, and sustain mobile service delivery. Covers service design, workflows and staffing, partnerships, data/technology, regulatory scope and compliance, and performance measurement.
Date: 07/2026
Sponsoring organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
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Offers guidance to health center leaders and staff regarding the core planning and operational decisions needed to launch, standardize, optimize, and sustain mobile service delivery. Covers service design, workflows and staffing, partnerships, data/technology, regulatory scope and compliance, and performance measurement.
Date: 07/2026
Sponsoring organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
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Building Collaborative Contracts With Health Care: A Social Connection Partnership Between Senior Connection, Inc., and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Massachusetts
Highlights a mobile outreach program for older adults in rural Massachusetts. Describes the program's focus on the 4Ms Framework of Age-Friendly Care, demonstrated impact, lessons learned, and sustainability plan.
Date: 06/2026
Sponsoring organizations: Aging and Disability Business Institute, The John A. Hartford Foundation, USAging
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Highlights a mobile outreach program for older adults in rural Massachusetts. Describes the program's focus on the 4Ms Framework of Age-Friendly Care, demonstrated impact, lessons learned, and sustainability plan.
Date: 06/2026
Sponsoring organizations: Aging and Disability Business Institute, The John A. Hartford Foundation, USAging
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Mobile Prosthetic and Orthotic Care (MoPOC)
Discusses the Veterans Health Administration's Mobile Prosthetic and Orthotic Care (MoPOC) Enterprise-Wide Initiative, which uses mobile labs to deliver lab services to rural veterans. Highlights program impacts, including veteran satisfaction with mobile prosthetic and orthotic care.
Date: 05/2026
Sponsoring organization: Veterans Health Administration's Office of Rural Health
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Discusses the Veterans Health Administration's Mobile Prosthetic and Orthotic Care (MoPOC) Enterprise-Wide Initiative, which uses mobile labs to deliver lab services to rural veterans. Highlights program impacts, including veteran satisfaction with mobile prosthetic and orthotic care.
Date: 05/2026
Sponsoring organization: Veterans Health Administration's Office of Rural Health
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Nurse-Led Mobile Clinics to Improve Rural Health Access and Disaster Preparedness: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Texas Program
Examines the impact of nurse-led mobile clinics on healthcare access, continuity of care, and disaster preparedness in rural Texas. Provides a program evaluation of the mobile clinic model using mixed methods and describes mobile clinic structure, interprofessional education (IPE), disaster preparedness and response, rural health access, sustainability, and policy implications.
Author(s): Nicole Peters Kroll, Sharon L. Dormire, Kelly L. Wilson
Citation: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 23(6), 702
Date: 05/2026
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Examines the impact of nurse-led mobile clinics on healthcare access, continuity of care, and disaster preparedness in rural Texas. Provides a program evaluation of the mobile clinic model using mixed methods and describes mobile clinic structure, interprofessional education (IPE), disaster preparedness and response, rural health access, sustainability, and policy implications.
Author(s): Nicole Peters Kroll, Sharon L. Dormire, Kelly L. Wilson
Citation: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 23(6), 702
Date: 05/2026
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National Association of Rural Health Clinics 2026 Policy Survey Report
Summarizes results of a 2026 national survey of Rural Health Clinics (RHCs). Presents data on the average payer mix, telehealth use and management trends, Medicare Advantage (MA) contracts and reimbursement rates compared to traditional Medicare rates, value-based care participation, challenges, and more.
Date: 04/2026
Sponsoring organization: National Association of Rural Health Clinics
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Summarizes results of a 2026 national survey of Rural Health Clinics (RHCs). Presents data on the average payer mix, telehealth use and management trends, Medicare Advantage (MA) contracts and reimbursement rates compared to traditional Medicare rates, value-based care participation, challenges, and more.
Date: 04/2026
Sponsoring organization: National Association of Rural Health Clinics
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Promoting Access to Chronic Illness Management and Nursing Education in a Rural Illinois Nurse-Led Mobile Health Unit
Examines the impact of nurse-led mobile health units (MHUs) to provide point-of-care (POC) screening and management of chronic disease in rural and hard-to-reach areas. Discusses MHU clinical experiences in nursing programs and expanding access to POC healthcare in rural areas.
Author(s): Carol Sieck, Kelly D. Rosenberger, Summer Roeschley-Park, Carolyn Dickens
Citation: Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 38(6), 393-397
Date: 03/2026
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Examines the impact of nurse-led mobile health units (MHUs) to provide point-of-care (POC) screening and management of chronic disease in rural and hard-to-reach areas. Discusses MHU clinical experiences in nursing programs and expanding access to POC healthcare in rural areas.
Author(s): Carol Sieck, Kelly D. Rosenberger, Summer Roeschley-Park, Carolyn Dickens
Citation: Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 38(6), 393-397
Date: 03/2026
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Expanding Oral Health Access and Equity: The Impact of Federally Qualified Health Centers
Presents a literature review aiming to understand the role of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in providing access to oral healthcare. Highlights different delivery methods, such as telehealth, oral health integration, and school-based and mobile health center programs. Discusses access barriers, such as rurality, among other factors.
Author(s): Irene Hilton, Candace L. H. Owen, Rachel Johnston, et al.
Citation: Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 86(S1), 48-53
Date: 03/2026
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Presents a literature review aiming to understand the role of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in providing access to oral healthcare. Highlights different delivery methods, such as telehealth, oral health integration, and school-based and mobile health center programs. Discusses access barriers, such as rurality, among other factors.
Author(s): Irene Hilton, Candace L. H. Owen, Rachel Johnston, et al.
Citation: Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 86(S1), 48-53
Date: 03/2026
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