Rural Health
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Critical Lessons from a Pragmatic Randomized Trial of Home-Based COVID-19 Testing in Rural Native American and Latino Communities
Examines the impact of utilizing community health workers (CHWs) to provide COVID-19 home testing in rural Latino and Native American communities. Includes data on completion of COVID-19 tests and provides qualitative feedback on accessibility, feasibility, and completion of COVID-19 home testing with CHW assistance.
Author(s): Eliza Webber, Sonia Bishop, Paul K. Drain, et al.
Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 40(4), 709-719
Date: 09/2024
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Examines the impact of utilizing community health workers (CHWs) to provide COVID-19 home testing in rural Latino and Native American communities. Includes data on completion of COVID-19 tests and provides qualitative feedback on accessibility, feasibility, and completion of COVID-19 home testing with CHW assistance.
Author(s): Eliza Webber, Sonia Bishop, Paul K. Drain, et al.
Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 40(4), 709-719
Date: 09/2024
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Medicare Billing for Telehealth Encounters: An Introductory Guide on Fee-for-Service
Presents an overview of how to bill fee-for-service Medicare and Medicaid for telehealth encounters. Includes information on originating and distant sites, virtual healthcare, and coding telehealth services. Lists types of practice sites, including Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), and implications for billing telehealth services. Provides contact information for Regional Telehealth Research Centers (RTRC).
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: Center for Connected Health Policy: The National Telehealth Policy Resource Center
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Presents an overview of how to bill fee-for-service Medicare and Medicaid for telehealth encounters. Includes information on originating and distant sites, virtual healthcare, and coding telehealth services. Lists types of practice sites, including Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), and implications for billing telehealth services. Provides contact information for Regional Telehealth Research Centers (RTRC).
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: Center for Connected Health Policy: The National Telehealth Policy Resource Center
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Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics Demonstration Program: Report to Congress, 2024
Provides an overview of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration. Describes changes in the quality of care during the first five years of the demonstration for states with available quality measures, as well as quality bonus payments states made to CCBHCs based on quality measure performance. Builds on findings on demonstration implementation, quality improvement, and costs outlined in previous evaluation reports.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organizations: HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Mathematica, RAND Corporation
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Provides an overview of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration. Describes changes in the quality of care during the first five years of the demonstration for states with available quality measures, as well as quality bonus payments states made to CCBHCs based on quality measure performance. Builds on findings on demonstration implementation, quality improvement, and costs outlined in previous evaluation reports.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organizations: HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Mathematica, RAND Corporation
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Place-Based Differences in the Association Between Greenspace and Suicide-Related Outcomes Among Young People
Presents a study on the role of greenspace and suicide-related outcomes (SROs) in young people. Explores the efficacy of greenspaces as protective factors for SROs in different levels of rurality by metrics such as quality, quantity, and accessibility.
Author(s): Sophia C. Ryan, Jennifer D. Runkle, Luke Wertis, Margaret M. Sugg
Citation: Journal of Adolescent Health, 75(2), 305-313
Date: 08/2024
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Presents a study on the role of greenspace and suicide-related outcomes (SROs) in young people. Explores the efficacy of greenspaces as protective factors for SROs in different levels of rurality by metrics such as quality, quantity, and accessibility.
Author(s): Sophia C. Ryan, Jennifer D. Runkle, Luke Wertis, Margaret M. Sugg
Citation: Journal of Adolescent Health, 75(2), 305-313
Date: 08/2024
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Loneliness and Alcohol Use Among College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Rural Appalachia
Results of a study exploring the association between loneliness and various levels of alcohol use in 2020-2021 among 310 college students ages 18-25 in a rural, underserved region of Appalachian Tennessee. Features demographics with breakdowns including rural, suburban, or urban background.
Author(s): Manik Ahuja, Rachel Miller-Slough, Esther Adebayo-Abikoye, et al.
Citation: Chronic Stress, 8
Date: 08/2024
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Results of a study exploring the association between loneliness and various levels of alcohol use in 2020-2021 among 310 college students ages 18-25 in a rural, underserved region of Appalachian Tennessee. Features demographics with breakdowns including rural, suburban, or urban background.
Author(s): Manik Ahuja, Rachel Miller-Slough, Esther Adebayo-Abikoye, et al.
Citation: Chronic Stress, 8
Date: 08/2024
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Implementing Individual Placement and Support in Rural Communities: Barriers and Strategies
An issue brief focused on individual placement and support (IPS) programs for people with mental health conditions to help sustain their employment. Utilizes interview data with 27 IPS specialists to discuss barriers and strategies to implementing IPS in rural areas, focused on issues such as mental healthcare workforce availability, funding, transportation, internet access, job opportunity, and local cultural perceptions.
Author(s): Gary R. Bond, Monirah AI-Abdulmunem, Deborah R. Becker, Robert E. Drake
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: ASPIRE: Advancing State Policy Integration for Recovery and Employment
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An issue brief focused on individual placement and support (IPS) programs for people with mental health conditions to help sustain their employment. Utilizes interview data with 27 IPS specialists to discuss barriers and strategies to implementing IPS in rural areas, focused on issues such as mental healthcare workforce availability, funding, transportation, internet access, job opportunity, and local cultural perceptions.
Author(s): Gary R. Bond, Monirah AI-Abdulmunem, Deborah R. Becker, Robert E. Drake
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: ASPIRE: Advancing State Policy Integration for Recovery and Employment
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Integrating Employment and Mental Health Services: Implementation of the Individual Placement and Support Model for Adults with Justice Involvement
Examines the Individual Placement and Support for Adults with Justice Involvement (IPS-AJI) program, which helps justice involved adults with mental health issues find and maintain employment. Analyzes 5 mental health centers that have implemented IPS-AJI and focuses on the program context, population served, key aspects of implementation, and the cost of the program. Mental health centers located in Claremore, Oklahoma; Moline, Illinois; and Davenport, Iowa are considered rural.
Author(s): Jacqueline Kauff, Jennifer Herard, Tim Kautz, et al.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organizations: Administration for Children and Families, Mathematica
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Examines the Individual Placement and Support for Adults with Justice Involvement (IPS-AJI) program, which helps justice involved adults with mental health issues find and maintain employment. Analyzes 5 mental health centers that have implemented IPS-AJI and focuses on the program context, population served, key aspects of implementation, and the cost of the program. Mental health centers located in Claremore, Oklahoma; Moline, Illinois; and Davenport, Iowa are considered rural.
Author(s): Jacqueline Kauff, Jennifer Herard, Tim Kautz, et al.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organizations: Administration for Children and Families, Mathematica
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Telling the Story of Public Health Accreditation in Ohio
Examines how a high percentage of Ohio's local health departments (LHDs) have achieved Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) accreditation. Provides qualitative interview and focus group feedback as well as quantitative data on finances and LHD profiles to explain the accreditation process in Ohio. Includes reflection on the challenges of achieving PHAB equity standards in rural areas.
Author(s): Amy Bush Stevens, Tonni Oberly, Simone Singh, et al.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: Health Policy Institute of Ohio
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Examines how a high percentage of Ohio's local health departments (LHDs) have achieved Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) accreditation. Provides qualitative interview and focus group feedback as well as quantitative data on finances and LHD profiles to explain the accreditation process in Ohio. Includes reflection on the challenges of achieving PHAB equity standards in rural areas.
Author(s): Amy Bush Stevens, Tonni Oberly, Simone Singh, et al.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: Health Policy Institute of Ohio
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Using a Continuous Quality Improvement Collaborative Approach in Indigenous Contexts: Lessons Learned From Tribal Home Visiting
Examines how a Continuous Quality Improvement Collaborative (CQIC) approach was implemented in Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (THV) programs, focusing on early language and literacy (ELL) and family engagement (FE). Analyzes the THV CQIC approach from 2019 to 2022 to observe implementation, quality improvement, and appropriateness and feasibility of CQIV for Indigenous contexts.
Author(s): Brandie Buckless, Audacity Nadler, Chi Connie Park, Natalie Moyer
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organizations: Administration for Children and Families, Tribal Evaluation Institute
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Examines how a Continuous Quality Improvement Collaborative (CQIC) approach was implemented in Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (THV) programs, focusing on early language and literacy (ELL) and family engagement (FE). Analyzes the THV CQIC approach from 2019 to 2022 to observe implementation, quality improvement, and appropriateness and feasibility of CQIV for Indigenous contexts.
Author(s): Brandie Buckless, Audacity Nadler, Chi Connie Park, Natalie Moyer
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organizations: Administration for Children and Families, Tribal Evaluation Institute
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Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry (ACTPCMD) Meeting Minutes, August 1-2, 2024
Summarizes the Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry (ACTPCMD) meeting held on August 1-2, 2024. Features updates from the Bureau of Health Workforce on programs to address healthcare workforce shortages, presentations and discussions on Title VII Sections 747 and 748 grant programs, and a presentation on the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) program, among other things.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
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Summarizes the Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry (ACTPCMD) meeting held on August 1-2, 2024. Features updates from the Bureau of Health Workforce on programs to address healthcare workforce shortages, presentations and discussions on Title VII Sections 747 and 748 grant programs, and a presentation on the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) program, among other things.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
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