Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Health workforce supply and demand
Hawai'i State Center for Nursing 2024 Annual Report: A Report for Governor Josh Green and the Hawai'i State Legislature
Provides an overview of the Hawaiʻi State Center for Nursing's activities in Fiscal Year 2024. Reports on the Center's funding structure, education and training programs, data gathering and research activities, and other efforts to improve nursing workforce recruitment, retention, and ability to provide high-quality care. Identifies workforce trends, and strategies for improvement. Highlights rural needs and projects.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Hawai'i State Center for Nursing
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Provides an overview of the Hawaiʻi State Center for Nursing's activities in Fiscal Year 2024. Reports on the Center's funding structure, education and training programs, data gathering and research activities, and other efforts to improve nursing workforce recruitment, retention, and ability to provide high-quality care. Identifies workforce trends, and strategies for improvement. Highlights rural needs and projects.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Hawai'i State Center for Nursing
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Rural Healthcare Partnerships Toolkit: How North Carolina's Rural-Serving Community Colleges Leverage Partnerships to Meet Healthcare Workforce Needs
Toolkit highlighting partnerships between higher education, K-12 schools, healthcare employers, community-based organizations, and government agencies across the state of North Carolina to address rural healthcare workforce shortages in the state. Discusses opportunities for strengthening the healthcare workforce pipeline as well as reducing barriers to entering the pipeline through degree completion.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Rural Postsecondary Practices Partnership
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Toolkit highlighting partnerships between higher education, K-12 schools, healthcare employers, community-based organizations, and government agencies across the state of North Carolina to address rural healthcare workforce shortages in the state. Discusses opportunities for strengthening the healthcare workforce pipeline as well as reducing barriers to entering the pipeline through degree completion.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Rural Postsecondary Practices Partnership
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Kentucky Physical Therapy Workforce Report
Describes the Kentucky physical therapy workforce, using data from the Kentucky Board of Physical Therapy and the University of Kentucky Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) program. Features statistics on wages, type of workplace, people per provider ratios by county, and percent of Kentucky DPT graduates and distribution of physical therapists, with breakdowns by rural, urban, Appalachian, and Delta regions.
Author(s): Frances Feltner, Caleb K. Williams, Sierra Williams
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health
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Describes the Kentucky physical therapy workforce, using data from the Kentucky Board of Physical Therapy and the University of Kentucky Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) program. Features statistics on wages, type of workplace, people per provider ratios by county, and percent of Kentucky DPT graduates and distribution of physical therapists, with breakdowns by rural, urban, Appalachian, and Delta regions.
Author(s): Frances Feltner, Caleb K. Williams, Sierra Williams
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health
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How to Solve New Mexico's Health Care Worker Shortage
Proposes state-level policy and funding changes to address healthcare workforce shortages in New Mexico, covering topics including Medicaid reimbursement, financial incentives for education and practice, credentialing, workforce programs, and more. Highlights the needs of rural and tribal communities, including discussion of rural provider retention, workforce pipelines, the Rural Healthcare Tax Credit (RHTC), and state and federal cooperation with tribal nations.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Think New Mexico
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Proposes state-level policy and funding changes to address healthcare workforce shortages in New Mexico, covering topics including Medicaid reimbursement, financial incentives for education and practice, credentialing, workforce programs, and more. Highlights the needs of rural and tribal communities, including discussion of rural provider retention, workforce pipelines, the Rural Healthcare Tax Credit (RHTC), and state and federal cooperation with tribal nations.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Think New Mexico
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Georgia Graduate Medical Education Exit Survey Report: Based on Responses to the 2024 GME Exit Survey
Results of a survey of 937 Georgia graduate medical education (GME) graduates, providing demographics and information on compensation and debt levels, retention rates, practice plans, assessments of the job market, and training experiences. Features statistics on practice location with breakdowns by 5 levels of population density, and percent planning rural practice.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce
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Results of a survey of 937 Georgia graduate medical education (GME) graduates, providing demographics and information on compensation and debt levels, retention rates, practice plans, assessments of the job market, and training experiences. Features statistics on practice location with breakdowns by 5 levels of population density, and percent planning rural practice.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce
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Montana Oral Health Workforce Assessment, 2024
Provides an overview of the oral health workforce in Montana. Includes information on the scope of practice, education and continuing education, and distribution within the state for dentists, dental hygienists, dental auxiliaries, and denturists. Covers county-level data on dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) by type. Discusses initiatives to expand dental education in Montana to meet the needs in rural areas.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
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Provides an overview of the oral health workforce in Montana. Includes information on the scope of practice, education and continuing education, and distribution within the state for dentists, dental hygienists, dental auxiliaries, and denturists. Covers county-level data on dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) by type. Discusses initiatives to expand dental education in Montana to meet the needs in rural areas.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
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Generating a Profile of the Near Dual Population
Chart pack from a project examining policy approaches to supporting Near Duals, who are adults aged 65+ experiencing financial precarity and not currently dually enrolled in Medicare and full-benefit Medicaid, utilizing Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) and Medicare administrative claims data. Analyzes characteristics of Near Dual population, including data on Near Duals' likelihood of living in rural and medically underserved areas.
Additional links: Project Overview: Defining and Examining the Near Duals
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: NORC at the University of Chicago
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Chart pack from a project examining policy approaches to supporting Near Duals, who are adults aged 65+ experiencing financial precarity and not currently dually enrolled in Medicare and full-benefit Medicaid, utilizing Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) and Medicare administrative claims data. Analyzes characteristics of Near Dual population, including data on Near Duals' likelihood of living in rural and medically underserved areas.
Additional links: Project Overview: Defining and Examining the Near Duals
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: NORC at the University of Chicago
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Playbook Project: 2024 Indiana Mental and Behavioral Health County Level Needs Assessment
Provides interactive county-level data on population and behavioral health workforce characteristics in Indiana. Includes information such as youth and elderly population, poverty, substance use, population to various behavioral health professions ratios, and more.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Provides interactive county-level data on population and behavioral health workforce characteristics in Indiana. Includes information such as youth and elderly population, poverty, substance use, population to various behavioral health professions ratios, and more.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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The Great Misalignment: Addressing the Mismatch between the Supply of Certificates and Associate's Degrees and the Future Demand for Workers in 565 US Labor Markets
Examines the degree to which providers of middle-skills programs are awarding credentials in fields that align with local workforce needs. Features a data tool with county-level metrics and a report with information comparing credentials-to-jobs alignment in urban and rural labor markets, with breakdowns by occupational fields including healthcare.
Author(s): Jeff Strohl, Zachary Mabel, Kathryn Peltier Campbell
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
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Examines the degree to which providers of middle-skills programs are awarding credentials in fields that align with local workforce needs. Features a data tool with county-level metrics and a report with information comparing credentials-to-jobs alignment in urban and rural labor markets, with breakdowns by occupational fields including healthcare.
Author(s): Jeff Strohl, Zachary Mabel, Kathryn Peltier Campbell
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
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Rural Mental Health in the United States 2006–2022: An Overview and Annotated Bibliography
Provides a comprehensive overview of mental health in the rural United States. Includes chapters focused on a rural perspective of mental health, the demographic profile of rural areas by substance abuse, mental health service delivery, workforce challenges and opportunities, comparative information about rural mental health outside the U.S., and the future of rural mental health in the U.S.
Author(s): Jasmine R. Davis, David Lambert, Sree Sinha, et al.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
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Provides a comprehensive overview of mental health in the rural United States. Includes chapters focused on a rural perspective of mental health, the demographic profile of rural areas by substance abuse, mental health service delivery, workforce challenges and opportunities, comparative information about rural mental health outside the U.S., and the future of rural mental health in the U.S.
Author(s): Jasmine R. Davis, David Lambert, Sree Sinha, et al.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
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