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New Hampshire Conrad 30 Yearly Report 2024
Lists statistics for J-1 visa waivers in New Hampshire for fiscal year 2024. Includes breakdowns by total number of slots used, flex slots, non-flex slots, primary care physicians, and specialists.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
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Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment: Annual Report 2024
Provides an overview of the past year's activities of the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment, including collaborations, planning, education and workforce development, investments, programming, and funding pathways, including those in rural and tribal areas.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment
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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
Type: Document
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
Type: Document
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
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Think New Mexico
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Maine Doula Workforce Assessment
Describes characteristics of doulas in Maine, their locations, the populations they serve, and what types of challenges Maine people face in accessing doulas' services. Includes information from online surveys conducted in 2023-2024. Mentions rural throughout.
Author(s): Sarah Tewhey, Cait Vaughan
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Maine Doula Coalition
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Practical Guide for Expanding the Community-Based Behavioral Health Workforce
Explores the role of community-initiated care (CIC) and behavioral health support specialists (BHSS) in filling gaps in behavioral healthcare services and supporting community wellness. Provides guidance, strategies, and best practices for addressing behavioral health disparities in underserved communities and expanding the BHSS and CIC workforce.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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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
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce
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Texas Certified Nurse Aides, 2024
County-level breakdown of the Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) workforce in Texas. Includes number of CNAs along with ratios to the population of each county.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health and Human Services
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Texas Pharmacy Technicians, 2024
County-level breakdown of the Pharmacy Technician workforce in Texas. Includes number of pharmacy technicians along with ratios to the population of each county.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health and Human Services
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