Rural Health
Resources by Type: Website
Four Northwoods Towns Unite to Rebuild EMS — and Cut Response Times in Half
Discusses emergency medical service (EMS) access in rural Vilas County, Wisconsin. Includes a video about the service sharing agreement reached by 4 towns to provide EMS with full-time paramedics and EMTs.
Author(s): Jason Weiss, Will Cushman
Sponsoring organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Discusses emergency medical service (EMS) access in rural Vilas County, Wisconsin. Includes a video about the service sharing agreement reached by 4 towns to provide EMS with full-time paramedics and EMTs.
Author(s): Jason Weiss, Will Cushman
Sponsoring organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Connected Communities for Healthy Aging
Provides resources that strengthen community infrastructure, promote healthy aging, and improve connectivity in rural Minnesota. Includes a toolkit that supports rural communities in forming, transforming, and sustaining healthy aging infrastructure.
Sponsoring organization: LeadingAge Minnesota
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Provides resources that strengthen community infrastructure, promote healthy aging, and improve connectivity in rural Minnesota. Includes a toolkit that supports rural communities in forming, transforming, and sustaining healthy aging infrastructure.
Sponsoring organization: LeadingAge Minnesota
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Texas Health Insights Dashboard
Dashboard providing county-level data on demographics, access to care, health needs and outcomes, non-medical drivers of health, and health risk and protective factors in Texas.
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health Institute
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Dashboard providing county-level data on demographics, access to care, health needs and outcomes, non-medical drivers of health, and health risk and protective factors in Texas.
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health Institute
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Rural Hospital Dashboard
Dashboard providing data on hospital closures and associated hospital and county characteristics using 2012-2023 HCRIS, AHRF, and County Health Ranking Files data. Select individual facilities to access facility and county-specific data.
Sponsoring organization: HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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Dashboard providing data on hospital closures and associated hospital and county characteristics using 2012-2023 HCRIS, AHRF, and County Health Ranking Files data. Select individual facilities to access facility and county-specific data.
Sponsoring organization: HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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RHTP Year 1 Awards Resources
A collections of resources focused on Year 1 of the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). Includes a calendar showing funding deadlines for each state, a map showing state-level progress on RHTP initiatives, and a directory of RHTP state contacts.
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
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A collections of resources focused on Year 1 of the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). Includes a calendar showing funding deadlines for each state, a map showing state-level progress on RHTP initiatives, and a directory of RHTP state contacts.
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
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CI Fortify: Strengthening Resilience Across Critical Infrastructure
Describes CI Fortify, an initiative dedicated to improving public health and safety, critical infrastructure, continuity of the economy, and national security, in case of a geopolitical conflict. Includes links to resources that help ensure cybersecurity professionals are prepared to sustain essential operations in case of disruptive cyberattacks.
Sponsoring organization: Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
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Describes CI Fortify, an initiative dedicated to improving public health and safety, critical infrastructure, continuity of the economy, and national security, in case of a geopolitical conflict. Includes links to resources that help ensure cybersecurity professionals are prepared to sustain essential operations in case of disruptive cyberattacks.
Sponsoring organization: Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
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NTIA Data Explorer
Interactive tool displaying data from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Internet Use Survey on Internet use, device use, non-use of the Internet at home, household connectivity, and online activities nationally and by state. Includes options to present data as a map, chart, table, or fact sheet. Presents the option to view data by state and demographic characteristics, such as age group, employment status, and population density (metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and non-MSA status).
Sponsoring organization: National Telecommunications and Information Administration
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Interactive tool displaying data from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Internet Use Survey on Internet use, device use, non-use of the Internet at home, household connectivity, and online activities nationally and by state. Includes options to present data as a map, chart, table, or fact sheet. Presents the option to view data by state and demographic characteristics, such as age group, employment status, and population density (metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and non-MSA status).
Sponsoring organization: National Telecommunications and Information Administration
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Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIO) Program
Provides a brief overview of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIO) Program. Includes a list of current QIN-QIO contractors and contact information for each, as well as links to related resources.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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Provides a brief overview of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIO) Program. Includes a list of current QIN-QIO contractors and contact information for each, as well as links to related resources.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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Wisconsin Self-Harm: Data Dashboard
Provides information on self-harm as well as interactive data from 2022-2024 on statewide self-harm rates in Wisconsin. Includes breakdowns by demographics, emergency department visits, geographic region, method of self-harm, mental health diagnoses, and rural versus urban location.
Sponsoring organization: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
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Provides information on self-harm as well as interactive data from 2022-2024 on statewide self-harm rates in Wisconsin. Includes breakdowns by demographics, emergency department visits, geographic region, method of self-harm, mental health diagnoses, and rural versus urban location.
Sponsoring organization: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
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Indigenous Healthcare Advancements - WayFinder
Searchable mapping system that helps users to locate healthcare systems that serve American Indian and Alaska Native patients. Allows patients to locate Indian Health Service (IHS), tribe-operated, urban Indian, or community-based facilities by city, ZIP code, reservation, or current location. WayFinder shows locations on a map and provides the address, contact information, and healthcare services provided, as well as other types of facility offerings.
Sponsoring organization: Indigenous Healthcare Advancements
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Searchable mapping system that helps users to locate healthcare systems that serve American Indian and Alaska Native patients. Allows patients to locate Indian Health Service (IHS), tribe-operated, urban Indian, or community-based facilities by city, ZIP code, reservation, or current location. WayFinder shows locations on a map and provides the address, contact information, and healthcare services provided, as well as other types of facility offerings.
Sponsoring organization: Indigenous Healthcare Advancements
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