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Date: Apr 2021
Explores efforts to rebalance long-term services and supports (LTSS) for older adults and people with disabilities toward home and community-based settings. Profiles five states with lower levels of rebalancing compared to the national average: Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Dakota, and West Virginia. Presents findings from interviews with federal and state officials, as well as other stakeholders involved with Medicaid LTSS systems and beneficiaries. Discusses how the COVID-19 public health emergency and flexibilities influenced LTSS services in these states. Offers future considerations for federal and state governments when addressing barriers to home and community-based services.
...health emergency and flexibilities influenced LTSS services in these states. Offers future considerations for federal...
Date: Feb 2024
Provides information on the yearly increase of suicides and deaths of despair in Minnesota, with data broken down by sex, region, and rurality. Discusses factors that impact suicide rates in rural areas, with a focus on tribal communities, farming, stigma, firearm access, and more.
...Health disparities · Mental health · Public health · Rural-urban differences · Stigma · Substance use and misuse · Suicide...
Date: May 2023
Provides an overview of the role of certified nurse-midwives and birth centers in Medicaid and how beneficiaries use these services. Describes policy issues and barriers to expanding access to midwives and birth centers, including payment policies; contracting with managed care organizations; licensure, certification, and accreditation; scope of practice; and limited supply. Includes rural considerations throughout.
...Health workforce supply and demand · Healthcare facilities · Licensure and certification of health professionals · Maternal health...
Date: Oct 2024
Results of a study examining whether psychosocial factors were associated with perceived stress and self-reported sleep deficiency, among 318 people with type 2 diabetes mellitus in 6 counties in rural Appalachian Kentucky. Features demographics and statistics on the association between perceived stress and sleepiness, and depression with perceived stress.
...Health, 6(3), 50-65 10/2024 Appalachia · Diabetes · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Social determinants...
Reviewed: Nov 12, 2024
Issues to consider when designing and implementing rural transportation programs for people with disabilities.
...health and quality of life. Non-drivers with disabilities in rural areas take fewer trips...
Date: Jan 2025
Presents findings from the 2023 Dentist Survey and 2023 Dental Hygienist Survey, designed to collect information on the characteristics and distribution of the dentist and dental hygienist workforces in Pennsylvania. Features demographics and statistics with breakdowns by urban and rural location.
...Health Access · Dental workforce · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce supply and demand · Oral...
Date: Apr 2022
Explores the design and implementation of a framework to provide telemedicine cancer care in urban and rural areas of Kentucky. Addresses issues of health disparities and lack of broadband access in geographic areas such as Appalachia. Provides examples of participatory and co-design processes to create telemedicine options and engage communities.
...health disparities and lack of broadband access in geographic areas such as Appalachia. Provides examples...
Date: Nov 2022
Provides an overview of population-based payment (PBP) models and the Medicaid PBP landscape. Identifies promising strategies for designing and implementing PBPs in Medicaid and considerations for state and federal policymakers who want to support these programs. Highlights state PBP approaches, including the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model.
...Health Model. Rob Houston, Anne Smithey, Kelsey Brykman 11/2022 Center for Health Care Strategies Healthcare...
Date: Apr 2017
Illustrates how the Virginia State Office of Rural Health (VA SORH) and its partners are focusing their attention on the opioid epidemic in rural areas of the state by expanding treatment, and training lay rescuers to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose and administer naloxone when necessary.
...Health (VA SORH) and its partners are focusing their attention on the opioid epidemic in rural...
Date: May 2018
Describes the Opioid Crisis Next Door summits, a series of conferences sponsored by the Illinois Center for Rural Health (ICRH) to increase the awareness of the opioid and heroin crisis in rural communities, and to identify ways for these communities to effectively respond to their misuse.
...Health (ICRH) to increase the awareness of the opioid and heroin crisis in rural communities...