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9441. Rural Resource: Availability of Obstetric Simulation Training by State - Resources
Date: Sep 2025

Explores the availability of simulation training and continuing medical education (CME)/distance learning opportunities for both rural hospitals with obstetric units and those without obstetric units. Presents findings of an environmental scan of national, regional, and state-level obstetric training resources. Offers recommendations for ways State Flex Programs and Critical Access Hospitals can use this resource to identify applicable simulation trainings.

...Health workforce education and training · Interprofessional training of the health workforce · Maternal health and prenatal...

9442. Wisconsin Project ECHO Series - Resources
Reviewed: Feb 2026

A statewide educational initiative connecting clinical experts with primary care providers and medication assisted treatment (MAT) prescribers across Wisconsin in an effort to reduce substance-related complications. Via a regularly scheduled videoconference, a multidisciplinary panel of specialists provide education and lead a collaborative discussion on submitted patient cases.

...Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Health workforce education and training...

9443. Proposed Mississippi Legislation Targets Food Deserts, Insecurities - News
Date: Jan 29, 2026

Discusses food deserts in rural and other parts of Mississippi, associated health disparities, and proposed legislation to support communities in food deserts. Notes that rural residents are on average 30 miles away from a grocery store. Source: Twin States News.

...health disparities, and proposed legislation to support communities in food deserts. Notes that rural residents...

9444. Tobacco Product Use Among Adults — United States, 2020 - Resources
Date: Mar 2022

Examines use of combustible and noncombustible tobacco products among people aged 18 or older, using data from the 2020 National Health Interview Survey. Features statistics on prevalence of cigarette smoking and use of other tobacco products with breakdowns including urban or rural location, and percentage of adults who smoked cigarettes every day with breakdowns by year from 2005-2020.

...Health Interview Survey. Features statistics on prevalence of cigarette smoking and use of other tobacco...

9445. Evidence Brief: Barriers and Facilitators to Use of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder - Resources
Date: Aug 2019

Report details an analysis of barriers and facilitators to administering medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD) that are applicable to the Veterans Health Administration. Highlights a synthesis of data extracted from a number of selected studies from 2014-2019, as well as VA data from 2006-2019. Includes data focusing on rural areas.

...Health Administration. Highlights a synthesis of data extracted from a number of selected studies from...

9446. Discharge to Swing Bed or Skilled Nursing Facility: Who Goes Where? - Resources
Date: Feb 2014

Examines health conditions of patients discharged from rural Prospective Payment System (PPS) hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) to swing beds and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).

...health conditions of patients discharged from rural Prospective Payment System (PPS) hospitals and Critical Access...

9447. Evidence Brief: Managing Acute Pain in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder on Medication-assisted Treatment - Resources
Date: Aug 2019

Brief details the Veterans Health Administration's best practice on acute pain treatment for patients undergoing medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. Includes supplemental materials that highlight search strategies and evidence tables among other materials.

...Health Administration's best practice on acute pain treatment for patients undergoing medication-assisted treatment...

9448. Following Labor and Delivery Unit Closures in Rural New Hampshire, Driving Time to the Nearest Unit Doubled - Resources
Date: Oct 2021

Examines the impact of the closure of 9 labor and delivery units in rural New Hampshire on the driving time to open units between 2000 and 2018. Explores the association between proximity to an open labor and delivery unit and women's health and socioeconomic characteristics.

...health and socioeconomic characteristics. --- Following Labor and Delivery Unit Closures in Rural New Hampshire, Driving...

9449. Three Levels of Rural Definition at FORHP - Resources
Date: Aug 2020

County-level map showing urban counties, selected metropolitan rural-urban commuting areas (RUCAs) 2 and 3, metropolitan RUCAs 4 and higher, and nonmetropolitan counties, according to definitions used by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP).

...Health Policy (FORHP). 08/2020 The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research County-by-county...

9450. Wisconsin Rural Physicians Residency Assistance Program Updates and Newsletters - Resources
Reviewed: Jun 2025

Newsletter of the Wisconsin Rural Physicians Residency Assistance Program (WRPRAP), which collaborates with rural health advocates, community clinicians, and residency educators in Wisconsin, to develop educational experiences that foster an understanding of and interest in rural medical practice among new physicians.

...health advocates, community clinicians, and residency educators in Wisconsin, to develop educational experiences that foster...