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Missouri Models and Innovations

These stories feature model programs and successful rural projects that can serve as a source of ideas. Some of the projects or programs may no longer be active. Read about the criteria and evidence-base for programs included.

Evidence-Based Examples

Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation Program (DOVE)

Updated/reviewed March 2026

  • Need: To reduce violence against pregnant women and women with infants in rural Missouri.
  • Intervention: A tool for existing home visiting programs, DOVE was a brochure-based and safety planning intervention for women experiencing interpersonal violence.
  • Results: Women receiving the DOVE intervention saw a larger average decrease in number of violent incidents than women in the control group.

Effective Examples

MU AHEC Summer Community Program

Updated/reviewed September 2023

  • Need: Lack of healthcare providers, specifically physicians, in rural Missouri.
  • Intervention: Rising second-year medical students at University of Missouri's School of Medicine are given the opportunity to participate in a clinical program in a rural community setting.
  • Results: Almost half of the participants from 1996-2010 chose to practice in rural locations upon graduation.

Other Project Examples

HCC of Lafayette County's Heath Information Technology Workgroup

funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy

Updated/reviewed October 2026

  • Need: To ensure the quality and sustainability of rural West Central Missouri's health services through the use of technology.
  • Intervention: The Health Care Coalition of Lafayette County convened a Health Information Technology (HIT) workgroup to establish electronic medical and prescription records, telemedicine capabilities, and training for Lafayette County and surrounding areas.
  • Results: The workgroup fully equipped a local emergency department with HIT, launched electronic prescriptions for nearly a dozen Lafayette County providers, and identified acute needs hindering the adoption of electronic health records.

CMH Addiction Recovery Program

funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy

Updated/reviewed November 2025

  • Need: To help individuals and families impacted by substance use disorder access treatment and counseling in rural Missouri.
  • Intervention: The CMH Addiction Recovery Program provides medication-assisted treatment, counseling, peer and family support, and other related services within a Rural Health Clinic.
  • Results: The program operates 5 days a week and sees 400 patients each month.

Mobile Integrated Healthcare Network (MIHN)

funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy

Updated/reviewed November 2025

  • Need: To bring preventive care and other services to rural Missouri patients with chronic illnesses and difficulties accessing primary care.
  • Intervention: Community paramedics make home visits and provide basic care, home assessments, and medication reconciliation and facilitate telehealth visits.
  • Results: Patients experienced improved access to care, health status, and compliance with medication regimens along with increased patient engagement, satisfaction, and access to community resources.

HCC Network's Project Connect Event

Updated/reviewed October 2025

  • Need: To expand public health and human services to adults living in rural West Central Missouri.
  • Intervention: HCC Network organized Project Connect events, daylong resource fairs that offer free public health and human services to low-income adults, and now serves as a resource for other organizations who would like to host a Project Connect event in their area.
  • Results: In 2024, local Project Connect events welcomed 100 families and offered numerous services and resource connections.

MoCAP

Updated/reviewed August 2024

  • Need: To help Missouri organizations secure funding to improve health outcomes.
  • Intervention: MoCAP provides free grant writing services and technical assistance for federal/national funding opportunities to eligible organizations in its 84-county service area.
  • Results: Since 2010, MoCAP has provided support for over 900 proposals and helped bring in more than $495 million in funding.

HealthTran

Updated/reviewed March 2024

  • Need: Affordable, dependable alternative to bridge the transportation gap between rural Missouri residents and their ability to connect with healthcare providers.
  • Intervention: Creation of HealthTran, a sustainable multi-service non-emergency transportation platform model based on the Community Mobility Management framework.
  • Results: After national recognition of its initial grant-funded pilot success, HealthTran has further evolved into a sustainable and replicable rural health-centric transportation membership model. Linking patients to appointments with healthcare providers, the model continues to expand further into rural Missouri, with some additional scaling in urban areas.