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6831. The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents, Families, and Staff - Resources
Date: 2022

Examines how the United States delivers, finances, regulates, and measures the quality of nursing home care. Discusses the nursing home care landscape, quality measurement and improvement, workforce, safety, payment and financing, and health information technology. Identifies seven goals and supporting recommendations that provide a framework for a comprehensive approach to improving the quality of care in nursing homes.

...Health Care Services 2022 Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine...

6832. Targeted Rural Underserved Track (TRUST) Program - Models & Innovations
Reviewed: Apr 2, 2025

University of Washington program that places medical students in a rural medical setting prior to beginning schooling and allows them to return regularly to learn and work within the same community.

...Health workforce education and training · Physicians Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming Rural Health Information Hub, 2025 . Targeted...

6833. Best Practice Guide for Engagement with SORH and CDC-funded State Programs - Resources
Date: 2019

Highlights examples from North Dakota, New Hampshire, and Louisiana of successful engagement between the State Office of Rural Health (SORH) and state initiatives funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Identifies top opportunities for collaboration.

...Health Needs assessment methods and resources · Networking and collaboration · Population health · Public health · Wellness, health...

6834. Comparing Two Telehealth Approaches for Treating Complex Psychiatric Disorders in Primary Care -- The SPIRIT Study - Resources
Date: 2022

Details a study on the use of telepsychiatry and telepsychology to treat complex psychiatric disorders in rural primary care settings. Discusses a trials done in 24 primary care clinics without behavioral health services. Compares models of care and draws conclusions from survey data.

...Health Centers · Health disparities · Integrated service delivery · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Primary care · Statistics...

6835. Illegally Made Fentanyl Use in the United States: 2022 and 2023 - Resources
Date: Jul 2025

Report highlights findings from the 2022 and 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on the use of illegally made fentanyl across the U.S. Explores co-usage with other drugs, emergency room visits/hospitalizations, and breaks down user characteristics by age, poverty level, and rurality, among other measures.

...Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Emergency department and urgent...

6836. Rural Definitions for Health Policy and Research - Resources
Date: Jul 2005

Compares several rural definitions and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. Also addresses the issues related to using these geographic definitions in policy and research.

...Health Policy and Research --- Compares several rural definitions and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. Also...

6837. Increased Wellness and Economic Return of Universal Broadband Infrastructure: A Telehealth Case Study of Ten Southern Rural Counties - Resources
Date: Apr 2023

Estimates the economic and health impacts of increased rural telehealth availability were broadband infrastructure and services universally available in 10 rural counties across Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. Calculates savings resulting from emergency department visits, lost productivity, preventable admissions, readmissions, and transportation costs for a variety of health conditions, and examines costs and strategies for increasing broadband infrastructure availability.

...health impacts of increased rural telehealth availability were broadband infrastructure and services universally available in 10 rural...

6838. Physician Workforce: Supply Increased in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas but Geographic Disparities Persisted - Resources
Date: Oct 2003

Describes the change in supply of physicians from 1991 to 2001. Includes data nationally and by state on physicians in nonmetropolitan areas and on the number of specialists versus generalists. Includes a list of Health Resources and Services Administration programs that address the supply and distribution of health professionals, with 1991 and 2001 expenditures for each program.

...Health Resources and Services Administration programs that address the supply and distribution of health professionals...

6839. Oversight: The Opioid Crisis in Tribal Communities - Resources
Date: Apr 2022

Recording of a U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing focused on the opioid crisis in tribal communities. Includes testimonies from representatives of the Cherokee Nation, the National Council of Urban Indian Health, the Border Patrol Council, and the Riverside-San Bernardino Indian Health.

...Health, the Border Patrol Council, and the Riverside-San Bernardino Indian Health. --- Oversight: The Opioid...

6840. Geographic Access to Health Care for Rural Medicare Beneficiaries: A National Study - Resources
Date: Sep 2021

Policy brief exploring rural and urban healthcare, geographic access to providers, and types of providers seen by Medicare beneficiaries based on Medicare administrative data from 2014. Charts offer rural and urban comparisons of characteristics of beneficiaries, number of visits by region, number of visits by race/ethnicity, visits by provider type, and travel distance and time.

...Health Care for Rural Medicare Beneficiaries: A National Study --- Policy brief exploring rural and urban...