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1441. Nursing Students Bring Free Care to Rural Virginia with Student-Run Mobile Health Clinic - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Nov 29, 2023

Old Dominion University's new mobile clinic is bridging care gaps in underserved communities while providing clinical opportunities to nursing students. - The Rural Monitor

...Health Clinic by Gretel Kauffman A provider sees a patient in the mobile health clinic...

1442. Examining Health Care Workforce Shortages: Where Do We Go From Here? - Resources
Date: Feb 2023

Recording of a February 16, 2023, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions hearing on healthcare provider shortages. Includes discussion of shortages in rural areas, including rural nurses. Features testimonies by representatives of the University of New England, Meharry Medical College, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Ochsner Health, and Dartmouth College.

...Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Tagged as Health occupations · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce...

1443. How Community Health Workers Are Impacting Rural Communities - Resources
Date: Apr 2023

Describes ways in which communities can use funding to build community health worker programs in order to reduce health disparities. Highlights the University of Kansas Medical Center's Local Health Equity Action Teams initiative in 10 counties, 6 of which are rural.

...Territorial Health Officials Tagged as Access · Community health workers · Funding · Health disparities · Infectious diseases · Kansas...

1444. National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services Meeting Minutes, Saratoga Springs, New York, April 16-18, 2018 - Resources - Archive
Date: Apr 2018

Summarizes the 83rd meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services (NACRHHS), which was held in Saratoga Springs, New York. Meeting discussion focused on two topics: how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can affect health and factors affecting health insurance costs for people in rural areas.

...health and factors affecting health insurance costs for people in rural areas. --- View more National...

1445. North Carolina Dental Health - Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) - Resources
Date: May 2024

County-level map of Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) in North Carolina, with shadings showing ranges of HPSA scores.

...Health - Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) --- County-level map of Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas...

1446. Pennsylvania Mental Health Care Workforce Shortage: Challenges and Solutions: A Staff Study - Resources
Date: Jun 2020

Provides a discussion of mental healthcare workforce occupations and examines the factors that led to shortages in these fields. Describes how telemedicine can be used to extend the mental healthcare workforce in rural Pennsylvania and determines how state government entities can encourage more people to enter and remain in the mental healthcare workforce. Makes recommendations including increasing the number of psychiatric residencies in rural areas and designating more Rural Health Clinics. Includes a county-level map of Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas.

...health workforce · Graduate medical education · Health workforce shortage designations · Health workforce supply and demand · Integrated...

1447. Geographic Variation in the Structure of Kentucky's Population Health Systems: An Urban, Rural, and Appalachian Comparison - Resources
Date: Jul 2020

Examines differences in key characteristics of population health systems in Kentucky, using data from a 2018 statewide survey of community networks. Features statistics on implementation of population health activities, with breakdowns by urban, rural non-Appalachian, and rural Appalachian public health jurisdictions.

...Health, 2(3), 14-25 Date 07/2020 Tagged as Appalachia · Population health · Public health · Rural...

1448. Health Professional Shortage Areas: Problems Remain With Primary Care Shortage Area Designation System - Resources
Date: Oct 2006

Reviews the number and location of Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and federal programs that use HPSA designations to allocate resources or provide benefits. Discusses available research on HPSA designation criteria and methodology. Addresses the impact of a 2002 provision that automatically designates Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and certain Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) as facility HPSAs.

...Health Centers (FQHCs) and certain Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) as facility HPSAs. --- View more Health...

1449. El Dorado Community Health Centers: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic in Rural California through Community Partnerships - Resources
Date: Jan 2024

Case study describing how El Dorado Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in California, works with a community coalition to address the opioid epidemic and implement a medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) program. Covers the infrastructure of the MOUD program, staffing and services, financing, and more. Highlights challenges and successes, as well as recommendations for other health centers.

...Health Care Strategies Tagged as Behavioral health workforce · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Healthcare business and finance...

1450. Health Disparities in Rural America: Current Challenges and Future Solutions - Resources
Date: Feb 2020

Describes health risks experienced by rural people and the problems they face in accessing healthcare in shortage areas, and offers possible solutions. Includes a map showing Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas by county, and a list of states allowing full practice authority for nurse practitioners as of 2019.

...Health disparities · Health information technology · Health workforce supply and demand · Maternal health and prenatal care...