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Date: 2016
Toolkit designed to provide prospective employers of community health workers (CHWs) a history and understanding of the field and how to implement CHWs into their practices in the state of Minnesota. Includes education and training requirements, a discussion of the roles of the CHW, and examples of successful community health worker models, among other topics.
...health worker models, among other topics. 2016 Minnesota Department of Health - Office of Rural Health...
Date: Aug 2023
Podcast episode featuring Farah Ahmad, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Discusses how USDA Rural Development (RD) invests in rural communities, including improving access to healthy foods in rural communities. Provides an overview of the Emergency Rural Health Care Grant program, which helped increase access to COVID-19 testing and vaccines, rural healthcare and telehealth services, and food assistance.
...Health on Life Support Emergency Rural Health Care Grants --- Podcast episode featuring Farah Ahmad, Deputy...
Date: Jun 2020
Discusses strategies from state legislatures and other stakeholders to increase access to healthcare in rural areas. Focuses on policies and policy options for state legislatures in three areas: improving health insurance coverage, safeguarding rural health facilities, and changing rural healthcare delivery. Features examples from Colorado, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
...Health insurance · Health workforce · Health workforce supply and demand · Healthcare business and finance · Healthcare facilities...
Date: Nov 2024
Reports on funding and areas served by state-level behavioral health matching grant programs in Texas. Includes discussion of the Rural Mental Health Initiative Grant Program (RIGP), and provides data on number of rural counties served by other grant programs.
...grant programs. 11/2024 Texas Health and Human Services Access · Behavioral health · Funding · Mental health · Texas...
Date: Mar 2019
Describes an implementation framework used to evaluate barriers to hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment for elderly, rural, Black, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) patients in the South. Identifies barriers and facilitators for HCV treatment. Discusses how the Health Equity Implementation Framework can be used to help research and address health disparities.
...Health Equity Implementation Framework can be used to help research and address health disparities. --- The Health...
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
A distance learning opportunity available to rural nurses designed to increase knowledge base in prevention, identification, and assessment of diseases related to agricultural work exposures. A partial scholarship is available for nurses working in nonprofit organizations, Rural Health Clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and educational institutions.
...Health Clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and educational institutions. --- AgriSafe Nurse Scholar Program AgriSafe Network...
Date: Nov 2020
Analyzes community health centers' utilization of telehealth services by state for the week prior to October 16, 2020. Compares the percentage of health center visits conducted virtually to the proportion of the population of each state that lives in rural areas.
...Health, RCHN Community Health Foundation Federally Qualified Health Centers · Infectious diseases · State-by-state data...
Reviewed: May 2025
Describes an initiative started by leaders of the Fillmore County Hospital and Fillmore Central Public Schools to address behavioral health issues among the student population in Fillmore, Nebraska. Details program goals to connect high risk students with specialized help and promote ongoing mental health wellness through educator, parent, and student training.
...health wellness through educator, parent, and student training. Bryan Health, Fillmore Central Panthers, Fillmore County...
Reviewed: Sep 20, 2024
Overview of resources and information to support rural health in Republic of the Marshall Islands.
...health for Republic of the Marshall Islands Overview - Rural Health Information Hub --- Overview of resources...
Date: Sep 2018
Profiles the Eastern Oregon Coordinated Care Organization (EOCCO), a rural program that received community reinvestment funding from the Oregon Health Authority to invest in the community and provide care for Oregon's Medicaid recipients using a fixed global budget system. EOCCO engaged a community advisory council (CAC) comprising local individuals that showed an active interest in improving their own and the community's health. EOCCO in turn reinvests the money they receive in projects targeted to improving priority health concerns determined by local community health assessments.
...health concerns determined by local community health assessments. 09/2018 Rural Health Value Community engagement and volunteerism...