RHIhub This Week - October 29, 2025
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Oct 28, 2025 -- 3RNET is hosting a live, virtual career fair on Thursday, November 13, 2025 in celebration of National Rural Health Day. This event will allow healthcare providers seeking jobs in rural and underserved areas to connect with 3RNET network coordinators to explore opportunities. Source: 3RNET 'It Is Who We Are': Alaska Native Organizations Collect Whale Meat, Seals, Fish and Other Traditional Foods to Help Storm Victims Oct 24, 2025 -- Describes efforts to collect and distribute traditional Alaska Native foods to victims of Typhoon Halong in rural Alaska. Discusses collaboration between tribal institutions and relief organizations across the state. Blue Earth Hospital Offers Hope amid Nationwide Rural Maternity Ward Closures Oct 23, 2025 -- Highlights a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) in rural Minnesota successfully offering labor and delivery services in spite of nationwide department closures. Describes the challenges with offering this service in rural communities and factors contributing to this CAH's success including participating in a network and cross-training staff. Includes a state map of maternity care deserts at the county level. Source: MPR News |
Scholarships for Native American and Alaska Native undergraduate students pursuing careers related to tribal public policy, native healthcare, and the environment. Geographic coverage: Nationwide Application Deadline: Mar 4, 2026 Sponsor: Morris K Udall and Stewart L Udall Foundation NRHA Rural Hospital HR Certification Program A hospital leadership and certification program for rural hospital human resource professionals. Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. Territories Application Deadline: Apr 23, 2026 Sponsor: National Rural Health Association |
Explains steps healthcare organizations should take to address cybersecurity risks. Discusses the need to prepare for interruption to services of 30 days or longer and the importance of focusing on clinical continuity. Also provides examples of how AI is being used in cyberattacks. Sponsoring organization: American Hospital Association Date: 10/2025 Caregiving in the US 2025: Caring Across States Offers data on caregivers including demographics, tasks performed, finances and employment, and wellness. Includes rural, suburban, and urban breakdown for caregivers in 32 states. Additional links: State-Specific Findings Sponsoring organizations: AARP, National Alliance for Caregiving Date: 10/2025 "Gives Us Peace of Mind for Keeping Our Hands Clean": Targeted Handwashing Intervention Increases Water Use and Hand Hygiene in Rural Alaska Highlights a study on the hygiene outcomes of an intervention that installed Miniature Portable Alternative Sanitation System (Mini-PASS) handwashing stations in 14 rural Alaska Native communities. Details the lack of in-home water service in rural Alaska and the related health consequences. Evaluates the Mini-PASS intervention's outcomes in terms of handwashing station utilization and household water use. Author(s): Amanda Hansen, Gretchen Day, Marla Wehrli, Laura Eichelberger Location: International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 84(1), 2569761 Date: 10/2025 Grantee Sourcebook: Rural Northern Border Region Health Care Support Program, FY 2023-2024 Provides an overview of program impact for the Rural Northern Border Region Health Care Support Program, which supports initiatives to enhance healthcare services for rural residents in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. Also provides contact information and a brief overview for each of the seven initiatives funded under the program. Sponsoring organizations: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Rural Health Redesign Center Date: 08/2025 Improving Pedestrian Safety at Night Provides a synthesis of findings from the "Strategies to Improve Pedestrian Safety at Night" project, including a literature review, practitioner survey, fatality analysis, and feedback from stakeholders researching pedestrian safety. Discusses considerations related to safe infrastructure in rural communities. Additional links: Read Online Sponsoring organization: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Date: 2025 Rural Behavioral Health Workforce: A State-Level Analysis Provides fact sheets on the rural behavioral health workforce for select states in 2025. Includes maps and tables providing county-level data and rural-urban comparisons of provider to population ratios for psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, social workers, and counselors. Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center Date: 2025 Rural Obstetrical Care Workforce: A State-Level Analysis Provides fact sheets on the rural obstetrical care workforce for select states in 2025. Includes maps and tables providing county-level data and rural-urban comparisons of provider to population ratios for obstetricians, advanced practice midwives, and midwives. Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center Date: 2025 Rural Primary Care Workforce: A State-Level Analysis Provides fact sheets on the rural primary care workforce for select states in 2025. Includes maps and tables providing county-level data and rural-urban comparisons of provider to population ratios for family physicians, general internists, general pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center Date: 2025 Training for Community Health Workers/Promotores de Salud Offers multiple live and self-paced trainings for community health workers covering agricultural health and safety topics including naloxone use, farmer mental health and suicide prevention, and human papillomavirus (HPV) prevention. Includes continuing education opportunities. Sponsoring organization: AgriSafe Network What Drives Advanced Practice Nurses to Stay in Rural America? Insights From the 2022 National Survey of Registered Nurses Presents a study on the factors influencing rural advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to leave their jobs or stay working in rural communities. Draws data from the 2022 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. Explores factors such as burnout, proximity to family, and cost of living, among others, that can contribute to whether or not APRNs stay in rural communities. Author(s): Esita Patel, Chris Gillette, Jan Ostermann, et al. Location: Journal of Rural Health, 41(4), e70088 Date: 10/2025 |
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