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Date: Feb 2018
Statement given at the February 2018 National Rural Health Association (NRHA) Policy Institute. Discusses the goals of the Connect2Health Task Force: to understand the future interplay of broadband, technology, and health policy and to ensure the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stays ahead of the innovation curve. Highlights the FCC's focus of broadband deployment to provide a foundation for health and describes a broadband-enabled project in Appalachian Kentucky created to provide healthcare services to cancer patients.
...Health Association --- Statement given at the February 2018 National Rural Health Association (NRHA) Policy Institute...
Date: May 2017
Explains the Federal Health Center program, with information relating to the statutory authority, program requirements, funding, location, patient populations, health outcomes, and more. Also discusses the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) designation, and how this designation affects Medicare and Medicaid payment levels.
...Health Centers: An Overview --- Explains the Federal Health Center program, with information relating to the statutory...
Reviewed: May 15, 2024
Information on promising and evidence-based models that can be considered to expand access to mental health services in rural areas.
...health services in rural areas. --- Models to Improve Access to Care for Mental Health Mental...
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...
Date: Nov 2024
Summarizes themes that emerged from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center's August 2024 Rural Health Hackathons, which aimed to inform potential payment and service delivery model development and to identify innovative solutions to address the access, care delivery, and workforce needs of rural, Tribal, frontier, and geographically isolated areas communities. Describes lessons learned from previous Innovation Center models focused on rural health and how these lessons were applied during the development of new models. Outlines potential areas for the Innovation Center to explore to advance health in rural, Tribal, frontier, and geographically isolated areas.
...health in rural, Tribal, frontier, and geographically isolated areas. --- Re-Imagining Rural Health: Themes, Concepts...
Reviewed: Oct 2025
Provides regional and county-level interactive data on Missouri's health workforce, community demographics, and citizen health status. Includes regional geographic profiles that provide a combination of indicator data, including Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).
...Health Care Workforce Project County-by-county data · Educational attainment · Health conditions · Health workforce · Health...
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...
Reviewed: Oct 6, 2025
A collection of programs created to address food insecurity and nutrition in rural Minnesota by providing residents with fresh, locally-sourced fruits, vegetables, and meat, as well as shelf-stable goods.
...health Rural Health Information Hub, 2025 . Lakewood Food Access Initiatives [online]. Rural Health Information Hub. Available...
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...
Date: Apr 2019
Reports on strategies designed to promote awareness and usage of HEALWA among rural health professionals in Washington state, including the use of a librarian position. HEALWA is a virtual resource library of evidence-based health information that can be accessed by health practitioners across the state.
...health information that can be accessed by health practitioners across the state. --- Increasing Rural Nurses...