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101. Evolving the Landscape: Texas State Hospitals Long-Range Planning Report
Date: Aug 2024

Reports on the current status of Texas state hospitals, identifies factors affecting future demand for services, and describes strategies to maximize state hospital use, efficiency, and effectiveness. See PDF pages 21-23 for discussion of rural access to mental health services and rural mental health workforce shortages.

...Health and Human Services Tagged as Access · Behavioral health workforce · Health workforce supply and demand...

102. Mental Health Care: Access Challenges for Covered Consumers and Relevant Federal Efforts
Date: Mar 2022

Explores the experiences of consumers with health insurance coverage in accessing timely and appropriate mental health care. Describes challenges accessing mental health services, including workforce shortages and broadband availability in rural areas. Identifies ongoing and planned federal efforts to address these challenges.

...Access · Behavioral health workforce · Health workforce supply and demand · Healthcare facilities · Mental health · Policy · Telehealth...

103. Rural Health: Pathway to Progress
Date: Sep 2023

Presents insights and perspectives from four rural healthcare leaders. Describes strategies for overcoming workforce challenges, increasing access to specialty care, and addressing cost pressures. Requires registration to download.

...Behavioral health · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce supply and demand · Healthcare business and finance...

104. Mental Health Outcomes Among Patients Living in US Counties Lacking Broadband Access and Psychiatrists
Date: Sep 2023

Presents a study on mental health access for people who live in counties without psychiatrists and broadband coverage. Discusses the expansion of telehealth services for mental healthcare and consultation. Aims to evaluate mental health access in mostly rural counties with a workforce shortage and a lack of broadband access.

...Behavioral health workforce · Broadband · Health disparities · Health workforce supply and demand · Mental health · Statistics and data...

105. Minnesota: Filling the Mental Health Pipeline
Date: Sep 2017

Discusses the mental health workforce in Minnesota including the educational pipeline, the licensed and unlicensed workforce, regional issues related to recruitment, and policy implications. Includes data about degrees completed, licenses gained after graduation, and population-to-provider ratios of the mental health workforce in Minnesota by rural or isolated, small town or small rural, micropolitan or large rural, and metropolitan.

...Behavioral health workforce · Educational attainment · Health workforce pipeline · Health workforce supply and demand · Licensure and certification...

106. Running the Numbers: The Maldistribution of Health Care Providers in Rural and Underserved Areas in North Carolina
Date: Jan 2014

Discusses the maldistribution of health care professionals related to population needs in rural North Carolina. Highlights physician workforce shortages in primary care, general surgery, psychiatry, licensed nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.

...Behavioral health workforce · County-by-county data · Health workforce supply and demand · Nurse practitioners and other...

107. State of Nevada Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) Prevention Plan
Date: Jul 2023

Plan outlining both current and proposed services and interventions offered for child welfare in Nevada, discussing prevention, evaluation, child monitoring, and workforce support. Discusses rural throughout.

...Health and Human Services Tagged as Behavioral health workforce · Child welfare · Children and youth · Families...

108. Growth and Changes in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Workforce with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Date: Sep 2012

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.

...Behavioral health workforce · Loans, loan repayment, and loan forgiveness for health careers · Nurse practitioners and other...

109. The Texas Mental Health Workforce: Continuing Challenges and Sensible Strategies
Date: Jul 2016

Policy brief featuring a report on the mental healthcare workforce in Texas, including a comparison of rural and urban counties. Discusses barriers to workforce expansion and strategies for drawing more mental health providers to the state.

...Health Tagged as Access · Behavioral health workforce · Health disparities · Mental health · Recruitment and retention of health...

110. How to Transform the U.S. Mental Health System: Evidence-based Recommendations
Date: Jan 2021

Discusses evidence-based strategies to promote mental healthcare utilization, improve access to care, and establish a continuum of care. Offers 15 recommendations to improve mental healthcare, including policies regarding reimbursement, workforce growth, and digital and telehealth services, among other topics. Includes rural references throughout.

...Behavioral health workforce · Care coordination · Health workforce pipeline · Health workforce supply and demand · Healthcare quality...