Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Health workforce supply and demand
Virginia's Occupational Therapy Assistant Workforce: 2024
An overview of the occupational therapy assistant (OTA) workforce in Virginia based on data from the 2024 Occupational Therapy Assistant Workforce Survey. Features statistics including the number of OTAs in rural Virginia and how many grew up in rural areas.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions
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An overview of the occupational therapy assistant (OTA) workforce in Virginia based on data from the 2024 Occupational Therapy Assistant Workforce Survey. Features statistics including the number of OTAs in rural Virginia and how many grew up in rural areas.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions
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Virginia's Occupational Therapy Workforce: 2024
An overview of the occupational therapist (OT) workforce in Virginia based on data from the 2024 Occupational Therapy Workforce Survey. Features statistics including the number of OTs in rural Virginia and how many grew up in rural areas.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions
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An overview of the occupational therapist (OT) workforce in Virginia based on data from the 2024 Occupational Therapy Workforce Survey. Features statistics including the number of OTs in rural Virginia and how many grew up in rural areas.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions
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Virginia's Physical Therapist Workforce: 2024
An overview of the physical therapist (PT) workforce in Virginia based on data from the 2024 Physical Therapist Workforce Survey. Features statistics including the number of PTs in rural Virginia and how many grew up in rural areas.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions
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An overview of the physical therapist (PT) workforce in Virginia based on data from the 2024 Physical Therapist Workforce Survey. Features statistics including the number of PTs in rural Virginia and how many grew up in rural areas.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions
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Virginia's Physical Therapist Assistant Workforce: 2024
An overview of the physical therapist assistant (PTA) workforce in Virginia based on data from the 2024 Physical Therapist Assistant Workforce Survey. Features statistics including the number of PTAs in rural Virginia and how many grew up in rural areas.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions
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An overview of the physical therapist assistant (PTA) workforce in Virginia based on data from the 2024 Physical Therapist Assistant Workforce Survey. Features statistics including the number of PTAs in rural Virginia and how many grew up in rural areas.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions
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Virginia's Physician Workforce: 2024
An overview of the physician workforce in Virginia based on data from the 2024 Physician Workforce Survey. Features statistics including the number of physicians in rural Virginia and how many grew up in rural areas.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions
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An overview of the physician workforce in Virginia based on data from the 2024 Physician Workforce Survey. Features statistics including the number of physicians in rural Virginia and how many grew up in rural areas.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions
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2024 Texas Hospital Nurse Staffing Study: Rural and Critical Access Hospitals
Compares nurse staffing in Texas's rural Critical Access Hospitals (CAH), rural non-CAH hospitals, and non-rural hospitals, utilizing 2024 Hospital Nurse Staffing Survey data. Provides data on vacancies, turnover, and budgeting for the nurse workforce.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organizations: Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies, Texas Health and Human Services
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Compares nurse staffing in Texas's rural Critical Access Hospitals (CAH), rural non-CAH hospitals, and non-rural hospitals, utilizing 2024 Hospital Nurse Staffing Survey data. Provides data on vacancies, turnover, and budgeting for the nurse workforce.
Date: 02/2025
Sponsoring organizations: Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies, Texas Health and Human Services
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RTTC - Utilizing Telementoring to Bolster the Rural Workforce
Webinar recording discussing the value of telementoring in supporting the rural workforce and addressing rural healthcare shortages. Details the role of the Rural Telementoring Training Center (RTTC) in providing resources and assistance for telementoring, and highlights program examples representing a variety of models and communities.
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Author(s): Suyen Schneegans, Laura Potter, Trisha Melhado
Date: 01/2025
Sponsoring organization: Heartland Telehealth Resource Center
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Webinar recording discussing the value of telementoring in supporting the rural workforce and addressing rural healthcare shortages. Details the role of the Rural Telementoring Training Center (RTTC) in providing resources and assistance for telementoring, and highlights program examples representing a variety of models and communities.
Additional links: Presentation Slides
Author(s): Suyen Schneegans, Laura Potter, Trisha Melhado
Date: 01/2025
Sponsoring organization: Heartland Telehealth Resource Center
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Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
Explores the effect of creating partnerships between rural and urban healthcare systems to bolster economic and technological resiliency in struggling rural hospitals. Highlights the way partnerships with academic and nonacademic urban hospitals can help rural hospitals facilitate workforce recruitment and retention, access specialty care, and improve technological access, among other factors.
Author(s): Suhas Babu, James N. Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, William B. Weeks
Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 41(1), e12927
Date: 01/2025
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Explores the effect of creating partnerships between rural and urban healthcare systems to bolster economic and technological resiliency in struggling rural hospitals. Highlights the way partnerships with academic and nonacademic urban hospitals can help rural hospitals facilitate workforce recruitment and retention, access specialty care, and improve technological access, among other factors.
Author(s): Suhas Babu, James N. Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, William B. Weeks
Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 41(1), e12927
Date: 01/2025
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2023 Pennsylvania Dentist and Dental Hygienist Workforce Survey Report
Presents findings from the 2023 Dentist Survey and 2023 Dental Hygienist Survey, designed to collect information on the characteristics and distribution of the dentist and dental hygienist workforces in Pennsylvania. Features demographics and statistics with breakdowns by urban and rural location.
Date: 01/2025
Sponsoring organization: Pennsylvania Department of Health
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Presents findings from the 2023 Dentist Survey and 2023 Dental Hygienist Survey, designed to collect information on the characteristics and distribution of the dentist and dental hygienist workforces in Pennsylvania. Features demographics and statistics with breakdowns by urban and rural location.
Date: 01/2025
Sponsoring organization: Pennsylvania Department of Health
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Vermont 2023 Census of Dentists: Statistical Report
Presents detailed profiles of dentists who renewed their Vermont licenses in September 2023, to be used as the basis for policy analysis, shortage area designations, and recruitment and retention. Features statistics including a section on primary care dentistry-to-population ratios with breakdowns by county.
Date: 01/2025
Sponsoring organization: Vermont Department of Health
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Presents detailed profiles of dentists who renewed their Vermont licenses in September 2023, to be used as the basis for policy analysis, shortage area designations, and recruitment and retention. Features statistics including a section on primary care dentistry-to-population ratios with breakdowns by county.
Date: 01/2025
Sponsoring organization: Vermont Department of Health
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