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11. UT Health San Antonio ECHO
Reviewed: Jan 2024

Program partnering healthcare workers in underserved, remote, and rural areas with providers to expand knowledge and support specialty care in local communities through the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model.

...workers in underserved, remote, and rural areas with providers to expand knowledge and support specialty care in local communities through the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model. --- View more UT Health...

12. Bureau of Health Workforce Field Strength and Students and Trainees Dashboards
Reviewed: Jan 2024

Data tools and information related to the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps, and Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program participants. Allows users to access subsets of data by filtering on various program, location, shortage designation, and site attributes, including rural location. Offers insight into disciplines and school locations of future clinicians preparing to serve in shortage areas across the country.

...health workforce · Community health workers · Dental workforce · Health workforce shortage designations · Health workforce supply and demand...

13. Cosecha: A Statewide Promotor de Salud Network to Attain Equity in Accessing COVID-19 Services in Florida's Farmworker Corridor
Date: Jan 2024

Describes the activities of a network of promotores de salud, or community health workers, promoting equitable access to COVID-19 services, including vaccination, among rural, migrant Latinx farmworkers in Florida from November 2021 to July 2022. Discusses program implementation, evaluation, sustainability, outcomes, and more.

...Health, 114(S1), S74-S77 Date 01/2024 Type Document Tagged as Access · COVID-19 · Community health workers...

14. Expanding the Care Team: Leveraging a Broad Workforce to Improve Health Care in Kansas
Date: Jan 2024

Discusses challenges facing the healthcare landscape in Kansas, such as hospital closures and healthcare workforce shortages, and how expanding healthcare teams to include professions like community paramedics and community health workers can help alleviate these challenges. Includes data on demographics of the Kansas population and related hospital closures that impact rural areas in particular.

...Health Care in Kansas --- Discusses challenges facing the healthcare landscape in Kansas, such as hospital closures and healthcare workforce shortages, and how expanding healthcare teams to include professions like community paramedics and community health workers...

15. Mitigating Cancer Disparities Through an Innovative Navigation Program
Date: Jan 2024

Describes the development and implementation of a population health navigation program to reduce barriers to cancer care in underserved communities in Western North Carolina and Northwest South Carolina. Provides data on rural program participants, including barriers to cancer care access, program impact on transportation needs and food insecurity, and rates of participation in clinical cancer research. Also covers Black, Hispanic, and adolescent and young adult program participants.

...Community health workers · Health disparities · Hispanic or Latino · Statistics and data · Transportation · North Carolina · South...

16. Assessing Social Needs and Engaging Community Health Workers in Underserved Kansas Counties: Insights From Primary Care Providers and Clinic Managers
Date: Dec 2023

Details a study exploring how rural and underserved urban communities in Kansas are screening for social determinants of health and using community health workers to address challenges. Bases findings on surveys of providers and clinic managers.

...Community Health, 14 Date 12/2023 Type Document Tagged as Clinics · Community health workers · Health screening...

17. Bridging a Care Gap: Policy Opportunities for Improving Access to Home-Based Primary Care
Date: Dec 2023

Recording of a panel discussion on home-based primary care for rural older adults and policies that could address challenges with offering and accessing home-based primary care. Discusses telehealth, broadband, community infrastructure, service models, community health workers, and more. Transcript available in the video description.

...Health Policy Tagged as Access · Broadband · Community health workers · Elderly population · Home and community-based...

18. Breast Cancer Disparity and Outcomes in Underserved Women
Date: Dec 2023

Provides an overview of breast cancer disparities experienced by underserved and vulnerable women. Discusses racial and ethnic groups, gender minority population, and rural population, and highlights the significance of social determinants of health. Describes strategies to mitigate disparities and improve access, including education and engagement, community health workers, mobile mammography, and care coordination.

...health. Describes strategies to mitigate disparities and improve access, including education and engagement, community health workers...

19. Texas Statewide Behavioral Health Strategic Plan: Progress Report
Date: Dec 2023

Report summarizing progress of the Texas Fiscal Years 2022-2026 Statewide Behavioral Health Strategic Plan. Discusses mental health workforce shortages, recruitment and retention of workforce, telehealth, loan repayment, community health workers, and incentivizing rural practice. Discusses rural throughout. Includes priority next steps and outlines strategies by various Texas state agencies.

...Health Coordinating Council Tagged as Behavioral health · Behavioral health workforce · Community health workers · Health workforce...

20. Virginia Oral Health Workforce Gap Assessment
Date: Dec 2023

Report describing challenges in ensuring that all Virginians have equitable access oral healthcare, and offering an actionable framework for addressing them. Features statistics on the Virginia oral healthcare workforce, including numbers of dentists and dental hygienists, numbers of dentists treating Medicaid patients by year from 2012-2022, and a map showing dental Health Professional Shortage Areas. Includes information about the Virginia state loan repayment program for eligible providers.

...Health Catalyst Tagged as Access · Community health workers · Dental workforce · Health workforce shortage designations · Health...