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Date: Dec 2014
Evaluations of 10 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on mental health and substance abuse services. Provides information on whether and how each project addressed the needs of underserved areas, including rural areas. One rural-focused project used telehealth to deliver services. Other projects provided transportation to help meet rural needs.
...Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on mental health and substance abuse services...
Date: Mar 2016
Second annual evaluations of 10 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on mental health and substance abuse services. Offers overviews of all projects, including HealthLinkNow, which uses telehealth to provide behavioral care services in rural areas, and the Prevention and Recovery in Early Psychosis Program, which was expanded to serve to rural counties in California.
...Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on mental health and substance abuse services...
Date: 2021
Assesses the supply of healthcare providers in North Carolina who are able to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, using licensure data merged with population data and numbers of intensive care unit (ICU) beds. Mentions rural throughout. Features county-level maps showing ratios of respiratory therapists, critical care nurses and physicians per 10,000 county population, and ratios of critical care nurses and respiratory therapists to numbers of ICU beds.
...Access · COVID-19 · Health occupations · Health workforce supply and demand · Statistics and data · North Carolina...
Reviewed: Feb 2026
Provides an overview of the Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designation scoring criteria, as well as Maternity Care Target Areas (MCTAs). Covers additional criteria and guidelines specific to each of the three types of designations: primary care, dental and mental health. Also covers scoring criteria for the Medically Underserved Area and Medically Underserved Population (MUA/P) designation.
...Area and Medically Underserved Population (MUA/P) designation. Health Resources and Services Administration Health workforce shortage designations...
Date: Feb 2024
Second annual scorecard exploring primary care in the United States across measures in four categories: access, financing, workforce/training, and research. Identifies five factors contributing to increased challenges in accessing primary care. The appendix includes data on the number and percentage of physician residents trained in an MUA, rural county, or both between the 2012-2013 and 2021-2022 academic years.
...Health workforce · Health workforce supply and demand · Nurse practitioners and other advanced practice registered nurses...
Reviewed: Jan 2026
Provides an overview of the National Rural Age-Friendly Initiative, a collaboration between the National Rural Health Association and The John A. Hartford Foundation to develop resources, partnerships, and strategies to build age-friendly care across rural communities. Includes information and links to resources about aging in place and age-friendly ecosystems and health systems.
...health systems. John A. Hartford Foundation, National Rural Health Association Access · Aging and aging-related...
Date: May 2024
Discusses medical education strategies for recruiting rural physicians. Highlights grow-your-own programs, rural track programs, service orientation, and exposing rural kids to health careers.
...Health Association Graduate medical education · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce pipeline · Health workforce...
Date: Nov 2023
Profiles Hannibal Regional Healthcare System (HRHS) in Hannibal, Missouri, which is addressing workforce challenges by working with area schools, colleges, and universities to increase opportunities for diverse health occupations through internships, residencies, training, and curriculum.
...Health workforce · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce pipeline · Health workforce supply and demand...
Date: Feb 2021
Examines existing laws and services in Pennsylvania and offers recommendations to ensure that sexual assault victims receive quality, trauma-informed medical care. Includes recommendations to promote a certified sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) program, increase the use of telehealth, and provide for a designation for hospitals, based on their ability to provide comprehensive sexual assault services. Features a section comparing availability of certified SANE nurses in rural and urban areas.
...Licensure and certification of health professionals · Mental health · Rural-urban differences · Telehealth · Trauma-informed care · Pennsylvania...
Date: May 2014
The final rule with comment period that implements the methodology and payment rates for a prospective payment system (PPS) for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) services beginning October 1, 2014, under Medicare Part B, in compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Identifies the policy allowing Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) to contract with nonphysician practitioners when statutory requirements for employment of nurse practitioners and physician assistants are met, and incorporated other technical changes to FQHC and RHC regulations. Changes to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 enforcement actions for proficiency testing referral are included.
...Medicare and Medicaid Services Federally Qualified Health Centers · Legislation and regulations · Medicaid · Medicare · Rural Health Clinics...