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Minnesota's Psychiatrist Workforce, 2012
Provides information on demographics, education, practice locations, and specialties of psychiatrists licensed in Minnesota in 2012.
Date: 07/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Minnesota Department of Health - Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
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Receipt of Medicaid and Medicare EHR Incentive Payments by Physicians in New York
Examines variation in the characteristics of licensed physicians who received payments from either the Medicare or Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs through September 2012. Addresses rural/urban differences in Medicare EHR incentive program enrollment.
Author(s): Sandra McGinnis, Jean Moore, Gaetano Forte, Margaret Langelier
Date: 05/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies
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The Colorado Beacon Consortium: Strengthening the Capacity for Health Care Delivery Transformation in Rural Communities
Describes how physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers in seven predominantly rural Colorado counties managed to build the capacity needed to exchange health data and transform clinical care.
Author(s): Douglas McCarthy, Alexander Cohen
Date: 04/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Commonwealth Fund
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Family Physicians Are Essential for Mental Health Care Delivery
Examines trends in the provision of mental healthcare by family physicians based on rural-urban location. Identifies the availability of psychiatrists by rurality. Concludes that family physicians are important for providing rural mental healthcare.
Author(s): Imam M. Xierali, Sebastian T. Tong, Stephen M. Petterson, et al.
Citation: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 26(2), 114-115
Date: 03/2013
Type: Document
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Trends in Graduate Medical Education in North Carolina: Challenges and Next Steps
Analyzes whether physicians remain in-state after finishing residency training and if residency training programs are producing physicians that practice in medically underserved areas. Includes state-level percentages and national averages of residents who are International Medical Graduates, percent of physicians retained in state, plus other data specific to North Carolina.
Author(s): Erin Fraher, Julie Spero, Jessica Lyons, Helen Newton
Date: 03/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
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HHS Regulatory and Policy Changes Focus on Supporting Rural Health Care
Summarizes regulatory and policy actions in 2012 to assist rural hospitals, clinics, and clinicians who play a key role in ensuring access to quality healthcare services in rural America.
Date: 03/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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Workforce Roles in a Redesigned Primary Care Model
Discusses primary care delivery models and physician workforce roles, in rural and urban areas, in response to the growing workforce needs as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the increased number of Americans receiving health insurance.
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: American Hospital Association
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Rural Residency Training for Family Medicine Physicians: Graduate Early-Career Outcomes, 2008-2012
Discusses the effectiveness of family medicine rural training track (RTT) residency programs, which train physicians for practice in rural and underserved areas.
Author(s): Davis G. Patterson, Randall Longenecker, David Schmitz, et al.
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
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Most Family Physicians Work Routinely With Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, or Certified Nurse Midwives
Reports that more than half of family physicians work with nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or certiļ¬ed nurse midwives, and doing so helps ensure access to health care services, particularly in rural areas.
Author(s): Lars E. Peterson, Robert L. Phillips, James C. Puffer, Andrew Bazemore, Stephen Petterson
Citation: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 26(3), 244-245
Date: 2013
Type: Document
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Growth and Changes in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Workforce with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Studied how additional supplemental funding to the National Health Service Corps through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was focused on granting more loan repayment awards to clinicians who agreed to work in underserved areas, affected the NHSC's workforce. States that proportions of the NHSC's workforce serving in rural areas changed only modestly.
Author(s): Donald E. Pathman, Thomas R. Konrad
Citation: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 25(5), 723-733
Date: 09/2012
Type: Document
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