Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Networking and collaboration
How Tribal Medical Education Programs Could Solve the Rural Health Care Crisis with Natasha Bray, DO
Highlights a partnership between The Cherokee Nation and the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine to address physician recruitment and retention in tribal communities. Discusses physician residencies, cultural competency, national physician shortages, and lessons learned. Transcript beneath podcast player.
Date: 01/2024
Type: Audio
Sponsoring organization: American Medical Association
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Highlights a partnership between The Cherokee Nation and the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine to address physician recruitment and retention in tribal communities. Discusses physician residencies, cultural competency, national physician shortages, and lessons learned. Transcript beneath podcast player.
Date: 01/2024
Type: Audio
Sponsoring organization: American Medical Association
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Critical Access Hospital-Local Health Department Partnerships to Address Rural Community Needs
Explores Critical Access Hospital (CAH) involvement in collaborative community health networks that include local public health departments (LHDs), other healthcare organizations, social service agencies, and other community organizations. Uses survey data from the American Hospital Association (AHA) to describe the collaborative partnerships CAHs are engaged in, the organizations with which they partner, and the activities these partnerships undertake. Presents findings from qualitative interviews with four pairs of CAH and LHD leaders regarding challenges and lessons learned from these local-level collaborations. Identifies three areas of activity - community health needs assessments, emergency preparedness planning, and emergent public health crises - that provide an opportunity to encourage collaboration between CAHs and LHDs and address priority needs.
Author(s): Zachariah Croll, Celia Jewell, John Gale
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Explores Critical Access Hospital (CAH) involvement in collaborative community health networks that include local public health departments (LHDs), other healthcare organizations, social service agencies, and other community organizations. Uses survey data from the American Hospital Association (AHA) to describe the collaborative partnerships CAHs are engaged in, the organizations with which they partner, and the activities these partnerships undertake. Presents findings from qualitative interviews with four pairs of CAH and LHD leaders regarding challenges and lessons learned from these local-level collaborations. Identifies three areas of activity - community health needs assessments, emergency preparedness planning, and emergent public health crises - that provide an opportunity to encourage collaboration between CAHs and LHDs and address priority needs.
Author(s): Zachariah Croll, Celia Jewell, John Gale
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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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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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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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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Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing 2024 Annual Report
Highlights the work of the Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing in 2024 including planning and evaluation, outreach, and research and presentations.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing
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Highlights the work of the Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing in 2024 including planning and evaluation, outreach, and research and presentations.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing
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Empowering Change: Promoting and Expanding Evidence-Based Programs in Rural Communities: A Toolkit for Community-Based Organizations
Toolkit identifying strategies to plan, implement, and sustain evidence-based health promotion programs in rural areas with a focus on the needs of older adults. Highlights partnerships, transportation, technology, and marketing and outreach for their ability to successfully impact health promotion programs.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Council on Aging
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Toolkit identifying strategies to plan, implement, and sustain evidence-based health promotion programs in rural areas with a focus on the needs of older adults. Highlights partnerships, transportation, technology, and marketing and outreach for their ability to successfully impact health promotion programs.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Council on Aging
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Toward a Framework to Improve Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Trials: Proceedings of a Workshop
Summarizes a May 2024 workshop discussing opportunities for increasing racial and ethnic diversity in clinical trials. Report discusses community engagement, data best practices, access to trials in their communities, perspectives of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and cross-sector collaborations. Includes information on community-based research, ethics, and relationship building within tribal communities as well as infrastructure challenges in rural clinical trial site selection.
Additional links: Read Online
Author(s): National Cancer Policy Forum
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Summarizes a May 2024 workshop discussing opportunities for increasing racial and ethnic diversity in clinical trials. Report discusses community engagement, data best practices, access to trials in their communities, perspectives of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and cross-sector collaborations. Includes information on community-based research, ethics, and relationship building within tribal communities as well as infrastructure challenges in rural clinical trial site selection.
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Author(s): National Cancer Policy Forum
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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2024 Chartbook: Supporting Native Elders in Their Communities: Title VI Native American Aging Programs and Services
Offers findings from the 2023 Title VI Native American Aging Program Survey. Discusses service provision, nutrition and traditional foods, services and supports for caregivers, transportation, elder abuse, program staffing and funding, and partnerships.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: USAging
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Offers findings from the 2023 Title VI Native American Aging Program Survey. Discusses service provision, nutrition and traditional foods, services and supports for caregivers, transportation, elder abuse, program staffing and funding, and partnerships.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: USAging
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Housing Supply Accelerator Playbook: Solutions, Systems, Partnerships
Provides an overview on housing shortages in the United States and its impact on quality of life and economic growth. Discusses locally driven solutions to solve housing supply issues, focusing on regional strategies and issues specific to rural.
Author(s): Lauren Lowery, Michael Wallace, Jason Jordan, et al.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: American Planning Association, National League of Cities
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Provides an overview on housing shortages in the United States and its impact on quality of life and economic growth. Discusses locally driven solutions to solve housing supply issues, focusing on regional strategies and issues specific to rural.
Author(s): Lauren Lowery, Michael Wallace, Jason Jordan, et al.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: American Planning Association, National League of Cities
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National Farm Medicine Center: 2023 Year in Review
Provides an overview of the 2023 activities of the National Farm Medicine Center and related partners, with a focus on research, policy, outreach and education, projects, and more. Discusses population health, well-being, and agricultural safety.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Farm Medicine Center
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Provides an overview of the 2023 activities of the National Farm Medicine Center and related partners, with a focus on research, policy, outreach and education, projects, and more. Discusses population health, well-being, and agricultural safety.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Farm Medicine Center
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