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2011. Supporting Rural Health Facilities - Resources
Date: Sep 2025

Discusses strategies pursued by states to strengthen the financial stability of rural hospitals and expand access to primary care, behavioral healthcare, and emergency care. Describes state policies related to technical assistance, financial stabilization grants, payment models, Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), health centers, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs), and free-standing emergency departments.

...Health Clinics (RHCs), health centers, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs), and free-standing emergency...

2012. Driving Health System Transformation - A Strategy for the CMS Innovation Center's Second Decade - Resources
Date: Oct 2021

White paper describing the new vision and strategic objectives for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMS Innovation Center) for the next 10 years that seeks to achieve equitable health outcomes through the provision of high-quality, affordable, person-centered care. Shares beneficiary and healthcare provider goals for each strategic objective in Table 2. Strategic objectives include: driving accountable care, advancing health equity, supporting innovation, addressing affordability, and partnering to achieve healthcare system transformation. Includes discussion on models focused on improving rural health and ways of increasing participation in those models in rural and underserved areas.

...Health System Transformation - A Strategy for the CMS Innovation Center's Second Decade --- White paper...

2013. Rural Health Care Program – Healthcare Connect Fund - Funding
Deadline: Apr 1, 2026

Provides assistance to healthcare providers for eligible expenses related to broadband connectivity at a flat discounted rate of 65%. Participants can apply as a member of a consortium or a stand-alone entity.

...health centers and health centers providing healthcare to migrants Local health departments and agencies Community...

2014. How the Federal Government Supports State and Local Efforts to Improve Rural Health: A Q&A with Tom Morris - Resources
Date: Jun 2019

Provides a Q&A with Tom Morris, associate administrator of rural health policy at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Focuses on how government agencies are addressing rural hospital closures, population health, rural workforce development, and the opioid epidemic.

...health policy at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Focuses on how government agencies...

2015. Many Medicare Advantage and Medicaid Managed Care Plans Have Limited Behavioral Health Provider Networks and Inactive Providers - Resources
Date: Oct 2025

Examines the availability of behavioral health providers in selected Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicaid managed care networks in 2023. Analyzes provider network lists and MA and Medicaid encounter data for four MA and two Medicaid managed care plans from 10 selected urban and rural counties across five states. Describes the proportion of the behavioral health workforce in each county included in the plans' networks. Discusses the extent to which managed care plans had inactive providers in their network and why these providers did not deliver services to enrollees. Includes data on the percentage of inactive providers in rural and urban counties. Offers recommendations to monitor and improve the accuracy of provider networks.

...health · Behavioral health workforce · Health insurance · Health workforce supply and demand · Medicaid · Medicare · Policy · Rural...

2016. Project PROMISE - Models & Innovations
Reviewed: Sep 29, 2025

Out of a need for more rural practitioners in North Carolina, two medical students started a program that gives high school seniors medical academic training, mentor relationships, and hands-on experience in rural North Carolina facilities.

...Health workforce education and training · Health workforce pipeline · Schools North Carolina Rural Health Information Hub, 2025 . Project...

2017. Partnering for Progress: Enhancing Mental Health Crisis Response in Rural North Carolina Through Faith-based Training - Resources
Date: Sep 2025

Discusses strategies for rural communities to enhance mental health crisis response by partnering with and training local organizations. Explores several programs providing faith-based mental health training to rural clergy in North Carolina. Compares data for rural Rockingham County to the state as a whole.

...health workforce · Community and faith-based initiatives · Mental health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion...

2018. Growing the State Offices of Rural Health - Resources
Date: Nov 2016

Brief video overview of the State Office of Rural Health (SORH) program, which was launched by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy in 1991. Discusses the mission of SORHs and the role of networking in improving rural health.

...Health --- Brief video overview of the State Office of Rural Health (SORH) program, which was launched...

2019. The Outreach Sourcebook, Volume 8: Rural Health Demonstration Projects, 1998 to 2001 - Resources - Archive
Date: Mar 2002

Detailed descriptions of 13 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 1998-2001 period. Includes project description and contact directory information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.

...health topics addressed by each project. 03/2002 Federal Office of Rural Health Policy Population health...

2020. QuickStats: Percentage of U.S. Adults Who Looked up Health Information on the Internet in the Past Year, by Type of Locality - National Health Interview Survey, 2012–2014 - Resources
Date: Dec 2015

Bar chart showing the percentage of adults who searched for health information online, comparing rates for those living in metropolitan and nonmetro counties.

...Health Information on the Internet in the Past Year, by Type of Locality - National Health...