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131. Health is Primary: Charting a Path to Equity and Sustainability - Resources
Date: Nov 2023

Examines factors driving the downward trends in primary care, including fewer clinicians practicing primary care, fewer available appointments, lower spending on primary care, and fewer adults reporting that they have a usual source of primary care. Features a literature review, supply and demand analysis, and recommendations for potential solutions. Mentions rural throughout.

...Sustainability --- Examines factors driving the downward trends in primary care, including fewer clinicians practicing primary...

132. Community Health Workers in Rural Settings Overview - Topic Guides
Reviewed: Mar 21, 2025

Guide outlines the roles of community health workers (CHWs) in rural areas. Features frequently asked questions about CHWs' duties, certification, and education, among other topics.

...sustain a community health worker program? Where can I find funding to help develop a community...

133. Rural Independent Pharmacies Sustainability Strategy - Resources
Date: Dec 2024

Policy brief discussing unique challenges that threaten the stability of rural independent pharmacies. Offers policy recommendations to support rural independent pharmacies.

...Sustainability Strategy --- Policy brief discussing unique challenges that threaten the stability of rural independent pharmacies...

134. Rural Hospital Sustainability: New Data Show Worsening Situation for Rural Hospitals, Residents - Resources
Date: Feb 2019

Reports on an analysis of rural hospital financial viability. Identifies the number of hospitals by state at financial risk of closing and the number by state at high financial risk that are considered essential for community trauma access. Discusses factors affecting rural hospitals' finances and offers recommendations for policymakers and regional/academic partnerships.

...Sustainability: New Data Show Worsening Situation for Rural Hospitals, Residents --- Reports on an analysis of rural...

135. Medicare Advantage in Rural Areas: Implications for Hospital Sustainability - Resources
Date: Nov 2023

Explores the relationship between Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration levels in rural areas and acute care hospital financial distress and closure between 2008 and 2019. Analyzes data from Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Databases from 14 states to describe rural acute care hospitals with low and high MA penetration.

...Sustainability --- Explores the relationship between Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration levels in rural areas and acute...

136. Common Implementation Challenges and Facilitators - RHIhub Community Health Toolkit - Toolkits
Reviewed: Feb 29, 2024

Some of the most common challenges experienced when implementing a rural community health program and factors that contribute to successful rural community health programs.

...Sustainability Plans Sustainability is an important program component to address early in the planning and implementation...

137. Rural Community Living Development Peer Mentoring: A Strategy for Sustainable Knowledge Translation - Resources
Reviewed: Feb 2026

Describes a peer mentoring program supporting rural outreach and community development activities by Center for Independent Living staff. Discusses implementation, including participatory curriculum development, research uptake, program evaluation, and partnerships.

...Sustainable Knowledge Translation --- Describes a peer mentoring program supporting rural outreach and community development activities...

138. Achievement of the Health-related Millennium Development Goals in the Western Pacific Region 2016: Transitioning to the Sustainable Development Goals - Resources
Date: 2016

Describes progress toward meeting goals to improve health in Western Pacific countries and territories. Features statistics on child mortality, maternal health, immunization rates, incidence of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, and access to clean water and sanitation.

...Sustainable Development Goals --- Describes progress toward meeting goals to improve health in Western Pacific countries...

139. Graduate Medical Education Financing: Sustaining Medical Education in Rural Places - Resources
Date: May 2015

A policy brief reporting on the financial situation of rural training track (RTT) residency programs, including their sources of funding, expenses, and the relationship between urban RTT sponsors and rural program sites.

...Sustaining Medical Education in Rural Places --- A policy brief reporting on the financial situation of rural...

140. Rural Health Clinic Program at 45 Years: Created for Access and Still Delivering Care - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Oct 26, 2022

After a 1965 public law created the Medicare and Medicaid programs, many rural residents insured by these government health programs were unable to access care. This challenge was remedied by another public law: the Rural Health Clinic Services Act of 1977. Using a historical framework, rural health policy experts, researchers, and clinicians reviewed the Act's impact on outpatient healthcare delivery in rural America. - The Rural Monitor

...sustainable for either capped or uncapped RHCs." This concern for sustainability was linked to RHCs...