Website Search Results for: sustainability
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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...
Date: Sep 16, 2026
Highlights a Virginia community paramedicine program and describes the challenges faced in offering the service, most notably funding and workforce. Discusses how community paramedicine can relieve strain on community emergency services which are often volunteer-run in rural communities. Source: Cardinal News.
...Sustain in Rural Areas. --- Highlights a Virginia community paramedicine program and describes the challenges faced...
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...
Date: Apr 2024
Describes themes that emerged from workgroup meetings regarding the implementation of value-based care (VBC) models, with a focus on total cost of care arrangements. Outlines voluntary best practices and domains within VBC payment arrangements for health plans, facilities, clinicians, and VBC entities to consider during the design, implementation, and evaluation of VBC participation. Includes rural information and considerations throughout.
...Sustainable Future for Value-Based Care: A Playbook of Voluntary Best Practices for VBC Payment...
Date: 2012
Offers guidance about the steps for planning and implementing a tribal transit system to assist with a variety of needs including clients with special needs in employment, education, healthcare, and other human services.
...Sustaining Tribal Transit Services: A Guidebook --- Offers guidance about the steps for planning and implementing...
Date: Aug 2024
Examines a tribal community-based nutrition program that utilizes a farm-to-school family intervention. Analyzes data from 193 children and 170 adults for diet quality and vitamin and mineral intake. Discusses issues of food quality and access in Native American populations.
...Sustainable Health (FRESH) Study --- Examines a tribal community-based nutrition program that utilizes a farm...
Date: May 31, 2017
Public agencies and private nonprofit groups have mutual interests in improving the health of rural Americans. The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy and philanthropy organizations worked together to create a unique funding opportunity, the Rural Health Care Coordination Network Partnership Program. Two healthcare organizations and their philanthropy partners share how coordinated efforts benefit patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. - The Rural Monitor
...sustainable budget including only what is essential to run effectively. We needed to know the true...
Date: Nov 2024
Explores the effect of migration on the population growth in rural parts of the country from 2020 to 2023. Discusses the population losses in rural areas due to deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights pandemic-driven early retirement and remote work as factors facilitating migration to rural areas.
...Sustain Population Gains in Rural America --- Explores the effect of migration on the population growth...
Date: Mar 2021
Discusses the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Provides an overview of federal actions on healthcare and economic policy areas through March 10, 2021, including data on vaccine administration and COVID-19 relief spending. Offers 28 new recommendations to federal agencies regarding public health, the economy, and program integrity that would improve the federal response.
...Sustained Federal Action Is Crucial as Pandemic Enters Its Second Year --- Discusses the federal government...
Date: Apr 2025
Describes the history of Medicare rural hospital designations. Discusses how traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid impact hospital finances. Outlines policy recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Congress regarding rural hospitals designations, payment adjustments, Medicare Advantage, and rural ambulance and emergency services.
...Sustaining Rural Hospital Access: Adjustments to Medicare Rural Hospital Designations --- Describes the history of Medicare...