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2511. Expanding Behavioral Health Care Workforce Participation in Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace Plans - Resources
Date: 2024

Report highlights barriers to obtaining behavioral health treatment on Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace plans. Discusses barriers specific to rural and tribal communities. Details behavioral workforce needs and makes policy recommendations.

...health · Behavioral health workforce · Health insurance · Population health · Reimbursement and payment models · Statistics and data...

2512. Healthy Smiles Healthy Growth 2018‐19: An Assessment of Oral Health Status, Beverage Consumption and Body Mass Index of Third-Grade Children in Illinois - Resources
Date: Feb 2020

Reports on oral health status, access to oral healthcare services, and beverage consumption among Illinois third graders in the 2018-19 school year. Table 11 includes urban and rural data on caries, oral health treatment needs, dental sealants, and overweight and obesity status.

...Health Access · Children and youth · Obesity and weight control · Oral health · Rural-urban differences · Statistics...

2513. Report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services: Encouraging Rural Participation in Population-Based Total Cost of Care (PB-TCOC) Models - Resources
Date: Jun 2024

Summarizes findings from the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee's (PTAC) review of information on best practices for addressing rural health challenges and encouraging rural participation in value-based care and PB-TCOC models. Describes the importance of addressing challenges affecting patients and providers in rural communities, developing financial incentives and glide paths to encourage rural participation in value-based care, and measuring and incentivizing value-based care and social determinants of health for patients in rural areas. Identifies areas where areas where additional research is needed, considerations for policymakers, and potential next steps.

...Policy · Reimbursement and payment models · Social determinants of health · Technology for health and human services...

2514. Promising Practices to Improve Access to Oral Health Care in Rural Communities - Resources
Date: Feb 2013

Identifies and discusses promising practices for developing an oral health program in rural areas, including information on barriers to accessing oral healthcare, evaluation and sustainability of oral health programs, and recruiting dentists to rural areas.

...Health Analysis Access · Dental workforce · Oral health · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Service delivery...

2515. Grantee Sourcebook: Rural Health Network Planning Development Program, 2019 - Resources - Archive
Date: Jun 2020

Detailed descriptions of 25 Rural Health Network Development Planning Program grant projects funded in fiscal year 2019. Reports on each grantee's network infrastructure development, plans for sustaining the network after the grant, and program activities addressing topics such as integrated service delivery, behavioral health, telehealth, and care coordination. Grantee profiles identify the geographic areas served, network partners, and primary contact person.

...Health Network Planning Development Program, 2019 --- Detailed descriptions of 25 Rural Health Network Development Planning...

2516. The Outreach Sourcebook - Volume 4: Rural Health Demonstration Projects, 1994 to 1997 - Resources - Archive
Date: Sep 1998

Detailed descriptions of 81 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 1994-1997 period. Includes project description and contact directory information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.

...Health Demonstration Projects, 1994 to 1997 --- Detailed descriptions of 81 rural health outreach grant projects...

2517. Statement by Tim Wolters, Citizens Memorial Hospital and Lake Regional Health System, before the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies - Resources
Date: May 2015

Testimony presented at a May 7, 2015 Labor-HHS Subcommittee hearing on rural health. Discusses the impact rural hospitals have on their communities and the challenges rural Prospective Payment System (PPS) hospitals face related to cuts in Medicare reimbursement.

...Health System, before the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education...

2518. Mobilizing Community Partnerships in Rural Communities: Strategies and Techniques - Resources
Date: Jul 2013

Describes how rural communities can develop and maintain organizational and community partnerships with local health departments, community health centers, healthcare organizations, offices of rural health, hospitals, and non-profit organizations. Recommendations are based on interviews with Federal Office of Rural Health Policy grantees involved in successful rural community partnership initiatives.

...health departments, community health centers, healthcare organizations, offices of rural health, hospitals, and non-profit...

2519. Health Workforce Strategies for California: A Review of the Evidence - Resources
Date: Apr 2021

Examines literature and evidence on healthcare workforce strategies, discussing workforce issues in urban and rural areas in California. Describes the impacts of pipeline, scholarship, loan repayment, professional training, and residency programs, including rural-specific considerations.

...health career education · Health workforce · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce pipeline · Health workforce...

2520. Health Equity and COVID-19: The Impact of Rural Residence on COVID-19 Disparities - Resources
Date: May 2021

Policy brief discussing rural health disparities, social determinants of health, access to care, and COVID-19 impacts in rural Georgia. Compares rural and urban COVID-19 case and death rates, distribution of cases by race, and disparities in Black and Hispanic rural counties. Offers policy recommendations to address disparities.

...Health Policy Center Access · Health disparities · Infectious diseases · Policy · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health...