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Date: Aug 2025
Details a study on differences in perinatal health among postpartum parents and infants in rural and urban areas. Bases findings on National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data and breaks down data by demographic characteristics, perceived barriers, and perceived health along rural and urban locations.
...Health, 41(3), e70062 08/2025 Children and youth · Health disparities · Maternal health and prenatal care...
Date: Aug 2022
Comments on a June 23, 2022, Federal Register proposed rule related to Medicare payment policies for home health agencies. Includes comments regarding the collection of data on the use of telecommunications technology under the Medicare home health benefit and quality measure stratification as a tool to address healthcare disparities and advance health equity.
...health equity. 08/2022 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Health disparities · Healthcare quality · Home health · Legislation and regulations...
Date: Sep 2025
Summarizes a session from the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) 2025 Annual Conference regarding state strategies to improve access to care in rural communities. Highlights policies from North Dakota, Washington, and West Virginia related to workforce and capacity challenges, broadband and telehealth, behavioral health access points, and linking health and social care.
...health access points, and linking health and social care. --- State Strategies for Strengthening Rural Health...
Date: Jan 2017
Policy brief informed by a September 2016 National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services meeting held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with site visits to update the committee about factors that affect health outcomes. Identifies emerging payment models and financing strategies, and provides policy recommendations for addressing the social determinants of health in rural communities.
...health in rural communities. 01/2017 National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services Health...
Date: Oct 2021
Provides an overview of the healthcare workforce in rural Illinois and describes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Offers policy recommendations to strengthen the rural health workforce in the state, improve service delivery, and enhance access to specialty care via telehealth services.
...Health workforce · Health workforce supply and demand · Infectious diseases · Recruitment and retention of health professionals...
Date: Jul 2022
Profiles Eagle Valley Behavioral Health (EVBH), a nonprofit and community mental health center (CMHC) developed to lead community collaboration working to ensure access to high-quality behavioral healthcare in Eagle County, Colorado. Discusses EVBH's collaboration with Building Hope Summit County, a community-wide initiative in a neighboring county focused on suicide prevention efforts. Describes how these initiatives were able to shape local policy, expand the local behavioral health workforce, fund their efforts, and identify and fill gaps in care.
...Access · Behavioral health · Behavioral health workforce · Fundraising · Policy · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Colorado...
Reviewed: Dec 2024
Provides access to a variety of health-related data for the state including immunizations, hospital discharge data, health registries, and health workforce reports.
...health registries, and health workforce reports. Health conditions · Health workforce supply and demand · Mortality · Population...
Date: Nov 2022
Discusses the potential of a Secretary's Council on Primary Care within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Describes primary care's role in addressing policy challenges related to health equity, payment, workforce training, pandemic recovery and resilience, the opioid crisis, and mental health. Offers recommendations to include and strengthen high-quality primary care as part of a long-term vision of a high-value healthcare system. Includes rural references throughout.
...Health disparities · Health workforce education and training · Illicit drug use · Mental health · Policy · Prescription drug...
Date: 2015
Examines the results from an online survey of 142 Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) in Iowa to determine their potential to respond to the opportunities and challenges of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Discusses the capacity of RHCs to provide dental care and mental health services, recruit primary care providers, and participate in value-based healthcare delivery.
...Health reform · Mental health · Oral health · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Rural Health Clinics...
Date: 2017
Reports on common issues, themes, and challenges found on the Oregon Office of Rural Health's 2017 rural and frontier health facility listening tour. Includes a focus on the behavioral health system and provides county-level statistics on key indicators, such as mortality, healthcare utilization, unemployment, substance abuse, and more.
...Health's 2017 rural and frontier health facility listening tour. Includes a focus on the behavioral...