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7931. Provider Bridge - Resources
Reviewed: Oct 2025

Connects healthcare professionals with state agencies and healthcare entities to increase access to care for patients in rural and underserved communities, and assists in mobilizing volunteer healthcare professionals during public health emergencies.

...health emergencies. Federation of State Medical Boards Access · Health workforce supply and demand · Legislation and regulations...

7932. Tulare County - RHIhub Suicide Prevention Toolkit - Toolkits
Reviewed: May 9, 2022

Describes Tulare County's program in rural California addressing rural suicide prevention.

...health clinic and has specialized mental health case managers available onsite for follow up as needed...

7933. Case Studies of 6 Teledentistry Programs: Strategies to Increase Access to General and Specialty Dental Services - Resources
Date: Dec 2016

Describes the delivery of teledentistry services by six provider organizations with different organizational structures. Discusses teledentistry as a method for improving rural access to oral health services. Identifies common themes, including the benefits of and barriers to teledentistry.

...Center for Health Workforce Studies Access · Oral health · Telehealth · Colorado · Georgia · Minnesota · New York · Oregon...

7934. Georgia Counties without Primary Care/Core Practitioners Based on 2023-2024 Licensure Renewals and New Licensees - Resources
Date: 2025

County-level Georgia maps showing counties without any physicians, and without physicians specializing in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, general surgery, psychiatry, and emergency medicine. Features statistics on numbers of these physicians with breakdowns by county.

...Health workforce supply and demand · Maternal health and prenatal care · Maternal health workforce · Physicians · Primary...

7935. Case Study: Community Partnerships Engage Residents in Healthy Living - Resources
Reviewed: May 2025

Explains how Merrick Medical Center, located in Central City, Nebraska, partnered with other community organizations to help residents improve overall health by focusing on fitness and wellness activities. Shares their approach, results, lessons learned, and more from Merrick Medical Center's campaign to reinvent preventive care in the community.

...health by focusing on fitness and wellness activities. Shares their approach, results, lessons learned, and more...

7936. HCIA Complex/High-Risk Patient Targeting: Third Annual Report - Resources
Date: Feb 2017

Third annual evaluations of Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on patients with medically complex conditions at high risk for hospitalization, re-hospitalization, emergency department visits, or nursing home stays. Presents program effectiveness findings based on Medicare and Medicaid claims data, surveys, site visits, and interviews. Several projects serve rural areas, offering caregiver education and support, telehealth services, and various care coordination approaches.

...NORC at the University of Chicago Care coordination · Health reform · Home health · Medicare · Service delivery models · Telehealth...

7937. New Partner Recruitment to Rural Versus Urban Ob-Gyn Practices: A Survey of Practicing Ob-Gyns - Resources
Date: 2017

Discusses the results of a survey of obstetrics and gynecology practices in rural and urban areas located in 5 Northwestern states to examine their recruitment efforts. Information and data about their background, practice setting, partner recruitment, and retention was collected and analyzed, with comparisons noted between rural, suburban, and urban providers.

...Health workforce supply and demand · Maternal health and prenatal care · Maternal health workforce · Physicians · Recruitment...

7938. Variations in Support for Secondhand Smoke Restrictions Across Diverse Rural Regions of the United States - Resources
Date: Nov 2018

Surveys the support of secondhand smoke restrictions among rural and urban people across all of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regions. Explores the attitudes of people pertaining to smoking regulations in various locations, such as in homes, bars, and playgrounds, among others.

...Medicine, 116, 157-165 11/2018 Environmental health · Public health · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Tobacco use...

7939. CY 2025 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System Final Rule (CMS 1809-FC) - Resources
Date: Nov 2024

Fact sheet providing an overview of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule regarding updates and changes to the Medicare payments for hospital outpatient and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) services for calendar year 2025. Summarizes provisions regarding changes to Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) and partial hospital program rate setting; incorporating an add-on payment to the Medicare outpatient hospital all-inclusive rate (AIR) for certain high-cost drugs for people with Medicare who receive care at Indian Health Service (IHS) or tribal hospitals; updates to the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR), Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting (ASCQR), and Rural Emergency Hospital Quality Reporting (REHQR) Programs; a new Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) for obstetrical services; Medicaid and CHIP continuous eligibility; Medicaid clinic services "four walls" exceptions; and more.

...Health Service (IHS) or tribal hospitals; updates to the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR), Ambulatory...

7940. Medicaid's Role in Financing Maternity Care - Resources
Date: Jan 2020

Examines the characteristics of births financed by Medicaid and other payers in 2018. Describes the demographics and health status of pregnant women by insurance type, including urban versus rural residence. Provides state-by-state data on births by payer as well as the location of birth, access to prenatal care, and birth outcomes among Medicaid beneficiaries.

...Health insurance · Maternal health and prenatal care · Medicaid · Rural-urban differences · State-by-state data...