Rural Health
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Health Center Expansion and Recruitment Survey 2004: Results by Health and Human Services Regions and Health Center Geography
Reports findings from the national study of health center staffing, recruitment, and retention. Provides information by HHS region, urban and rural geography, and national overall estimates. Includes 118 graphs of selected survey results.
Author(s): C. Holly A. Andrilla, L. Gary Hart
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Reports findings from the national study of health center staffing, recruitment, and retention. Provides information by HHS region, urban and rural geography, and national overall estimates. Includes 118 graphs of selected survey results.
Author(s): C. Holly A. Andrilla, L. Gary Hart
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Rural Hospital Emergency Department Quality Measures: Aggregate Data Report
Reports findings from a project that tested emergency department quality measures in a voluntary sample of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in Washington State.
Author(s): Jill Klingner, Ira Moscovice
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Reports findings from a project that tested emergency department quality measures in a voluntary sample of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in Washington State.
Author(s): Jill Klingner, Ira Moscovice
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Closures of Hospital-Based SNF Units: Insights from Interviews with Administrators, Discharge Planners and Referring Physicians
Reports on interviews with officials at fifteen acute care hospitals with Medicare skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in 1998, some of which were still open and some of which had closed. Addresses the reasons, and consequences, of hospitals' decisions to close SNF units. The study included hospitals in urban and rural areas.
Author(s): Korbin Liu, Emily Jones, Urban Institute
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Reports on interviews with officials at fifteen acute care hospitals with Medicare skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in 1998, some of which were still open and some of which had closed. Addresses the reasons, and consequences, of hospitals' decisions to close SNF units. The study included hospitals in urban and rural areas.
Author(s): Korbin Liu, Emily Jones, Urban Institute
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Long-Term Care: Consumers, Providers, Payers, and Programs
Discusses selected characteristics of long-term care consumers and providers and describes payers and selected programs that finance long-term care services.
Author(s): Carol O'Shaughnessy, Julie Stone, Thomas Gabe, Laura B. Shrestha
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: Congressional Research Service
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Discusses selected characteristics of long-term care consumers and providers and describes payers and selected programs that finance long-term care services.
Author(s): Carol O'Shaughnessy, Julie Stone, Thomas Gabe, Laura B. Shrestha
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: Congressional Research Service
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Choosing Rural Definitions: Implications for Health Policy
Provides an overview of rural definitions and their policy implications. Discusses the factors that should be considered in selecting among rural definitions.
Author(s): Andrew F. Coburn, A. Clinton MacKinney, Timothy D. McBride, et al.
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Health Panel
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Provides an overview of rural definitions and their policy implications. Discusses the factors that should be considered in selecting among rural definitions.
Author(s): Andrew F. Coburn, A. Clinton MacKinney, Timothy D. McBride, et al.
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Health Panel
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Private Plans in Medicare: A 2007 Update
Examines changes between 2006 and 2007 in the availability of and enrollment in Medicare Advantage and Medicare prescription drug plans overall and in urban and rural areas.
Author(s): Marsha Gold
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: KFF
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Examines changes between 2006 and 2007 in the availability of and enrollment in Medicare Advantage and Medicare prescription drug plans overall and in urban and rural areas.
Author(s): Marsha Gold
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: KFF
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MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 2007
Annual review of Medicare payment policies, with recommendations to Congress. Discussions of rural aspects of Medicare payment policies are included throughout the report.
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Annual review of Medicare payment policies, with recommendations to Congress. Discussions of rural aspects of Medicare payment policies are included throughout the report.
Date: 03/2007
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Evaluation of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations for Clinical Preventive Services
Reports findings addressing the adoption, integration, delivery, and dissemination of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations for clinical preventive services in different types of health plans. Includes some rural-specific information.
Author(s): Alycia Infante, Michael Meit, Thomas Briggs, Caitlin Oppenheimer, Jennifer Benz
Date: 02/2007
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Reports findings addressing the adoption, integration, delivery, and dissemination of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations for clinical preventive services in different types of health plans. Includes some rural-specific information.
Author(s): Alycia Infante, Michael Meit, Thomas Briggs, Caitlin Oppenheimer, Jennifer Benz
Date: 02/2007
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Hospital Size, Uncertainty and Pay-for-Performance
Describes the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID). Describes methods to factor hospital size into appropriately ranking pay-for-performance results. Discusses policy implications of including small, rural hospitals in pay-for-performance programs that use ranking to identify quality.
Additional links: Policy Brief: Does Hospital Size Affect Our Ability to Accurately Identify High Quality Care in Pay-for-Performance Programs?, May 2007
Author(s): Gestur Davidson, Ira Moscovice, Denise Remus
Date: 02/2007
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
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Describes the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID). Describes methods to factor hospital size into appropriately ranking pay-for-performance results. Discusses policy implications of including small, rural hospitals in pay-for-performance programs that use ranking to identify quality.
Additional links: Policy Brief: Does Hospital Size Affect Our Ability to Accurately Identify High Quality Care in Pay-for-Performance Programs?, May 2007
Author(s): Gestur Davidson, Ira Moscovice, Denise Remus
Date: 02/2007
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
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Delivering the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations in a Rural Health Plan
Explores the challenges that one health plan faces in delivering the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations to its rural patient population.
Author(s): Alycia Infante, Michael Meit
Date: 02/2007
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Explores the challenges that one health plan faces in delivering the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations to its rural patient population.
Author(s): Alycia Infante, Michael Meit
Date: 02/2007
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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