Responding to One Rural Community's Primary Care Needs: Investing in Workforce and Broad Community Stakeholder Engagement

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Commentary describing a model in which an academic health system in Rockingham County, North Carolina made targeted primary care investments to address rural health disparities while working to ensure sustainability within the health workforce. Examines challenges to improving rural health outcomes and offers suggestions for health systems seeking to replicate the Rockingham model.

Sherry Hay, Emily M. Hawes, Alyssa Zamierowski, Stokes Ann Hunt, Cristen P. Page

North Carolina Medical Journal, 83(6), 435-439

11/2022

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Community engagement and volunteerism · Health disparities · Health workforce · Primary care · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Sustainability of programs · North Carolina