Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Planning and strategy methods and resources
From Mapping to Mobilizing: Leveraging Local Assets to Create Sustainable Solutions for Shared Challenges
Summarizes the community asset mapping process, an model for understanding community strengths and needs and supporting collaboration and informed decision-making. Provides a step-by-step approach for community asset mapping in rural areas.
Date: 02/2026
Sponsoring organization: Rural Communities Opioid Response Program - Technical Assistance
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Summarizes the community asset mapping process, an model for understanding community strengths and needs and supporting collaboration and informed decision-making. Provides a step-by-step approach for community asset mapping in rural areas.
Date: 02/2026
Sponsoring organization: Rural Communities Opioid Response Program - Technical Assistance
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Rural Health Resources to Support Grant Writing
Training webinar discussing trends in rural demographics and health conditions, and detailing how health and demographic data influences grant writing. Provides guidance on navigating rural health databases and other resources, including PubMed, the USDA Economic Research Service, and the Rural Health Information Hub. Requires free registration for access.
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organization: New England Public Health Training Center
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Training webinar discussing trends in rural demographics and health conditions, and detailing how health and demographic data influences grant writing. Provides guidance on navigating rural health databases and other resources, including PubMed, the USDA Economic Research Service, and the Rural Health Information Hub. Requires free registration for access.
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organization: New England Public Health Training Center
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REH: Service Line Development
Summarizes an educational session regarding how a Rural Emergency Hospital can evaluate service line opportunities. Identifies building blocks for effective service line development, best practices, and key takeaways for leaders.
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Redesign Center
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Summarizes an educational session regarding how a Rural Emergency Hospital can evaluate service line opportunities. Identifies building blocks for effective service line development, best practices, and key takeaways for leaders.
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Redesign Center
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REH: Improving Rural Emergency Hospital Care: RCA and FMEA
Summarizes an educational session discussing two tools for improving patient safety: root cause analysis (RCA) and failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA). Provides a brief description of each method and best practices for rural hospitals.
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Redesign Center
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Summarizes an educational session discussing two tools for improving patient safety: root cause analysis (RCA) and failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA). Provides a brief description of each method and best practices for rural hospitals.
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Redesign Center
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Measuring State Flex Program Impact: Tools to Support Outcome Measurement and Evaluation
Toolkit designed to help State Flex Programs (SFPs) with manage and document project performance and comply with the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy's expectations regarding outcome measurement and reporting. Provides blank worksheets for SFPs as they work through the steps for their projects, as well as links to outcome measurement resources.
Author(s): John Gale, Bridget Harr
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Toolkit designed to help State Flex Programs (SFPs) with manage and document project performance and comply with the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy's expectations regarding outcome measurement and reporting. Provides blank worksheets for SFPs as they work through the steps for their projects, as well as links to outcome measurement resources.
Author(s): John Gale, Bridget Harr
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Working with Communities on Decisions for Innovative Treatment Technologies
Provides guidance for technical assistance providers and other decision-makers in examining, planning, and implementing non-treatment and treatment responses to emerging contaminants, including PFAS, in small, rural, and underserved communities. Includes discussion of community decision-making, challenges of working with innovative technologies, and public health and infrastructure factors influencing adoption.
Additional links: Interactive guidebook
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Community Assistance Partnership
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Provides guidance for technical assistance providers and other decision-makers in examining, planning, and implementing non-treatment and treatment responses to emerging contaminants, including PFAS, in small, rural, and underserved communities. Includes discussion of community decision-making, challenges of working with innovative technologies, and public health and infrastructure factors influencing adoption.
Additional links: Interactive guidebook
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Community Assistance Partnership
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Creating Rural Physician Training Sites: Not Easy, Not Simple, But Happening With Federal Support
Features insights from Rural Residency Planning and Development grantees in Georgia, Oregon, and Missouri. Focuses on the challenges, successes, and community impact of their new rural residency startup work.
Author(s): Kay Miller Temple
Date: 11/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Features insights from Rural Residency Planning and Development grantees in Georgia, Oregon, and Missouri. Focuses on the challenges, successes, and community impact of their new rural residency startup work.
Author(s): Kay Miller Temple
Date: 11/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Introduction to Rural Public Health
Training module focused on providing an overview of rural public health in the U.S. Includes discussion on rural public health systems and structures; leveraging existing strengths and attributes of rural communities to address the challenges they face; and the importance of developing partnerships and collaboration to support rural public health systems and care delivery. Continuing education credits for this course are available through October 15, 2027, via CDC TRAIN.
Additional links: CDC TRAIN
Date: 10/2025
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Training module focused on providing an overview of rural public health in the U.S. Includes discussion on rural public health systems and structures; leveraging existing strengths and attributes of rural communities to address the challenges they face; and the importance of developing partnerships and collaboration to support rural public health systems and care delivery. Continuing education credits for this course are available through October 15, 2027, via CDC TRAIN.
Additional links: CDC TRAIN
Date: 10/2025
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Introducing Public Health Vending Machines in Rural Communities: Protocol for a Study Using a Community-Based Participatory Approach
Provides a study protocol focused on creating a community-engaged approach to implementing public health vending machines (PHVMs) that distribute naloxone in rural North Carolina. Discusses the need to engage people who have experienced substance use when developing public health interventions to prevent drug overdose.
Author(s): Meghan Guter, Lauren Harrell, Kathleen L Egan, Reese Hiatt, Lori Ann Eldridge
Citation: JMIR Research Protocols, 14
Date: 09/2025
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Provides a study protocol focused on creating a community-engaged approach to implementing public health vending machines (PHVMs) that distribute naloxone in rural North Carolina. Discusses the need to engage people who have experienced substance use when developing public health interventions to prevent drug overdose.
Author(s): Meghan Guter, Lauren Harrell, Kathleen L Egan, Reese Hiatt, Lori Ann Eldridge
Citation: JMIR Research Protocols, 14
Date: 09/2025
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Health Center Performance Improvement Toolkit
Offers a framework to support health center performance improvement and health outcomes across seven domains. Includes a guide to self-assessment to help health centers assess their current performance in each domain, describe assess their current performance in each domain, describe future performance goals, and identify how to reach and sustain improved performance. Offers self-assessment tools, including fillable checklists for each domain, progress snapshot worksheets, and example improvement activities.
Additional links: Guide to Self-Assessment, Self-Assessment Tools
Date: 09/2025
Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Primary Health Care
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Offers a framework to support health center performance improvement and health outcomes across seven domains. Includes a guide to self-assessment to help health centers assess their current performance in each domain, describe assess their current performance in each domain, describe future performance goals, and identify how to reach and sustain improved performance. Offers self-assessment tools, including fillable checklists for each domain, progress snapshot worksheets, and example improvement activities.
Additional links: Guide to Self-Assessment, Self-Assessment Tools
Date: 09/2025
Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Primary Health Care
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