Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Recruitment and retention of health professionals
Source Book: Rural Health Workforce Development Grant Program, 2010-2013
Describes 20 initiatives funded under the Rural Health Workforce Development Grant Program in the 2010-2013 funding cycle. Includes information on program services, community characteristics, outcomes, challenges addressed, partners involved, and implications for other communities.
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
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Describes 20 initiatives funded under the Rural Health Workforce Development Grant Program in the 2010-2013 funding cycle. Includes information on program services, community characteristics, outcomes, challenges addressed, partners involved, and implications for other communities.
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
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Assessing Community Health Center (CHC) Assets and Capabilities for Recruiting Physicians: The CHC Community Apgar Questionnaire
Describes the evaluation instrument, CHC Community Apgar Questionnaire (CHC CAQ), developed for Idaho CHCs to use in physician recruitment with a focus on rural areas.
Author(s): Edward Baker, David Schmitz, Sean Wasden, Lisa MacKenzie
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 12(4), 2179
Date: 12/2012
Type: Document
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Describes the evaluation instrument, CHC Community Apgar Questionnaire (CHC CAQ), developed for Idaho CHCs to use in physician recruitment with a focus on rural areas.
Author(s): Edward Baker, David Schmitz, Sean Wasden, Lisa MacKenzie
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 12(4), 2179
Date: 12/2012
Type: Document
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Characteristics of Rural RNs Who Live and Work in Different Communities
Explores individual and community-level factors associated with registered nurses' decisions to commute away from their rural areas of residence for work. Discusses the implications of the findings for recruiting and retaining nurses in rural communities.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): Susan M. Skillman, Lorella Palazzo, Mark P. Doescher, Patricia Butterfield
Date: 09/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Explores individual and community-level factors associated with registered nurses' decisions to commute away from their rural areas of residence for work. Discusses the implications of the findings for recruiting and retaining nurses in rural communities.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): Susan M. Skillman, Lorella Palazzo, Mark P. Doescher, Patricia Butterfield
Date: 09/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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The Use of Hospitalists in Small Rural Hospitals
Describes small rural hospitals' use of hospitalists, who assume responsibility for patient care during inpatient hospital stays. Includes information on how hospitalists are used at these facilities. Discusses impacts on healthcare quality, hospital finances, and recruitment and retention of physicians.
Author(s): Michelle Casey, Ira Moscovice
Date: 04/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
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Describes small rural hospitals' use of hospitalists, who assume responsibility for patient care during inpatient hospital stays. Includes information on how hospitalists are used at these facilities. Discusses impacts on healthcare quality, hospital finances, and recruitment and retention of physicians.
Author(s): Michelle Casey, Ira Moscovice
Date: 04/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
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Rural Health Workforce Development Program: Giving Medical Students the Opportunity to Experience Practicing in Rural Maine
Highlights the Maine Track, a nine-month Longitudinal Integrated Curriculum that allows medical students to train in rural communities, supporting rural physician recruitment.
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Highlights the Maine Track, a nine-month Longitudinal Integrated Curriculum that allows medical students to train in rural communities, supporting rural physician recruitment.
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Rural Health Workforce Development Program: Providing On-the-Job Training for New Rural Nurses
Describes a 12-week orientation and training sequence for newly graduated rural registered nurses designed to meet the specific needs of the Northwest Kansas Health Alliance network's Critical Access Hospitals.
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Describes a 12-week orientation and training sequence for newly graduated rural registered nurses designed to meet the specific needs of the Northwest Kansas Health Alliance network's Critical Access Hospitals.
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Increasing Graduate Medical Education (GME) in Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) Could Enhance Physician Recruitment and Retention in Rural America
Summarizes how graduate medical education in Critical Access Hospitals could improve access to care in rural areas. Includes a chart illustrating the number of interns and residents at CAHs by year for 1998-2009.
Author(s): Imam M. Xierali, Sarah A. Sweeney, Robert L. Phillips Jr., Andrew W. Bazemore, Stephen M. Petterson
Citation: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 25(1), 7-8
Date: 01/2012
Type: Document
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Summarizes how graduate medical education in Critical Access Hospitals could improve access to care in rural areas. Includes a chart illustrating the number of interns and residents at CAHs by year for 1998-2009.
Author(s): Imam M. Xierali, Sarah A. Sweeney, Robert L. Phillips Jr., Andrew W. Bazemore, Stephen M. Petterson
Citation: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 25(1), 7-8
Date: 01/2012
Type: Document
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Defining the Issues and Principles of Recruitment and Retention: Introduction to the Rural Health Careers Pipeline Series
Overview of the issues endemic to healthcare workforce recruitment and retention in rural areas. The introduction to a series of issue papers addressing rural health care workforce development through career pipeline programs.
Author(s): Dave Schmitz, Natalie Claiborne, Nicole Rouhana
Date: 01/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
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Overview of the issues endemic to healthcare workforce recruitment and retention in rural areas. The introduction to a series of issue papers addressing rural health care workforce development through career pipeline programs.
Author(s): Dave Schmitz, Natalie Claiborne, Nicole Rouhana
Date: 01/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
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Midwest Retention Toolkit
Provides tools to assist National Health Service Corps (NHSC) sites with the retention of healthcare providers. Includes worksheets, sample surveys, and model retention plans for use with all healthcare providers, although targeted for physicians.
Date: 2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: 3RNET
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Provides tools to assist National Health Service Corps (NHSC) sites with the retention of healthcare providers. Includes worksheets, sample surveys, and model retention plans for use with all healthcare providers, although targeted for physicians.
Date: 2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: 3RNET
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'Any Body Is Better than Nobody?' Ethical Questions Around Recruiting and/or Retaining Health Professionals in Rural Areas
Focuses on the role of ethics in the recruitment and retention of rural health care providers at an individual, community, and healthcare system level.
Author(s): Christy Simpson, Fiona McDonald
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 11(4), 1867
Date: 11/2011
Type: Document
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Focuses on the role of ethics in the recruitment and retention of rural health care providers at an individual, community, and healthcare system level.
Author(s): Christy Simpson, Fiona McDonald
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 11(4), 1867
Date: 11/2011
Type: Document
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