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1241. Looking Back But Leaning Forward: New Opportunities and Challenges for North Carolina's Rural Communities - Resources
Date: Nov 2018

Issue brief describing efforts among local and state leaders to promote community engagement in rural North Carolina and to address shortages of physicians and advanced practitioners. Also examines challenges faced by rural North Carolina hospitals, uses of telemedicine, plans to promote quality care for children and families, and recommendations for the future.

...youth · Community engagement and volunteerism · Families · Health workforce supply and demand · Hospitals · Telehealth · North Carolina...

1242. The Decentralized Academic Health Center: A 21st-Century Model for Rural Health Innovation - Resources
Date: May 2026

Discusses the role of academic health centers in addressing rural health needs and proposes the Decentralized Academic Health Center (D-AHC) model. Compares the traditional model with D-AHC and discusses implementation through teaching and workforce, research and data, clinical partnerships and digital health, community engagement and policy, financial sustainability, and provider and community readiness. Includes a 5-phase roadmap for implementation.

...Networking and collaboration · Policy · Research methods and resources · Statistics and data · Sustainability of programs · Telehealth...

1243. From Idea to Reality: Federal Funding Supports Quapaw Nation's Community Paramedicine Program - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Feb 16, 2022

By leveraging federal COVID-related funding, the Quapaw Nation now serves its local residents with a new community paramedicine program. Current program data indicates that it's bringing significant cost savings, along with valuable information for future local healthcare delivery decision-making. Most importantly, the program is also proving to be widely acceptable to community members. - The Rural Monitor

...telehealth access to another medical provider when Arnall identifies the need for assistance. Arnall said...

1244. VA Recommendations to the Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission - Resources
Date: Mar 2022

Presents Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) recommendations to the Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission to modernize and realign the VA health care system. Recommendations cover investing in the VA outpatient care infrastructure, enhancing care for veterans with complex needs, providing access to inpatient medical and surgical care, and strengthening the VA's ability to execute its education, research, and emergency preparedness missions. Volume I outlines the legislative history; the present and future of VA health care, including the access needs of rural veterans; the methodology used to conduct the market assessments; and a national summary of the recommendations. Volume II details the recommendations and is organized by the 18 Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs).

...Department of Veterans Affairs Access · Emergency preparedness and response · Policy · Service delivery models · Telehealth · Veterans...

1245. Use of Telemedicine and Quality of Care Among Medicare Enrollees With Serious Mental Illness - Resources
Date: Oct 2023

Examines telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic among Medicare beneficiaries with mental illness. Analyzes levels of telemental use by mental health practices who saw patients with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder the year before the COVID-19 pandemic and during the first pandemic year. Discusses patient outcomes and quality of care as correlated with telemental use, with data broken down according to practice characteristics and patient demographics, including rurality.

...quality · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Rural-urban differences · Specialty care · Statistics and data · Telehealth...

1246. Tackling America's Mental Health and Addiction Crisis Through Primary Care Integration - Resources
Date: Mar 2021

Explores how primary and behavioral healthcare integration can overcome the unmet needs for mental health and substance use services. Discusses barriers to integrated care delivery. Offers policy recommendations to improve the integration of primary and behavioral healthcare services through enhanced payments, training, and technical assistance, and improving access to behavioral health providers for consultation and referral.

...Interprofessional training of the health workforce · Medicare · Policy · Primary care · Reimbursement and payment models · Telehealth...

1247. Use of Telebehavioral Health Services by Critical Access Hospitals in the United States: A Qualitative Study of the Impacts of Medicare Flexibilities and Future Opportunities - Resources
Date: Jul 2025

Analyzes interviews with 22 Critical Access Hospital (CAH) administrators and providers to identify how telebehavioral health is used in CAHs, the impact of Medicare billing flexibility, and opportunities and challenges for telebehavioral healthcare moving forward.

...Heidi O'Connor, Yvonne Jonk Digital Health, 11 07/2025 Behavioral health · Critical Access Hospitals · Medicare · Telehealth...

1248. Virtual Roads to Real Recovery, with Amanda Kennedy - Resources
Date: Jul 2026

An episode of the Exploring Rural Health podcast featuring Amanda Kennedy, manager of the Mercy Virtual Substance Use Recovery Program. Focuses on strategies the program uses to build trust and provide patients a seamless bridge into substance use treatment. Part 2 in a 3-part series featuring the 2026 Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) Innovation Tank finalists, with Mercy vSURP's work winning third place.

...third place. 07/2026 Rural Health Information Hub Access · Hospitals · Substance use and misuse · Telehealth · Missouri...

1249. Alcohol Use Disorder: Addressing Stigma and Treatment Access in Rural America - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Aug 26, 2020

From decreasing stigma to increasing treatment access and the impact of COVID-19, experts and rural healthcare organizations speak out on alcohol use and misuse in rural America. - The Rural Monitor

...telehealth changes are also emerging as a positive influence on the future of AUD treatment...

1250. Oregon Washington Health Network and Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center "Tackle Everything" to Improve the Health of Local Community Members - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Jun 13, 2018

The Oregon Washington Health Network and the Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center are addressing behavioral health challenges through peer counselors and heart disease/cancer prevention through community education. In addition, they're collaborating with local healthcare facilities and medical schools to improve recruitment and retention. - The Rural Monitor

...telehealth program, funded by Cambia Health Foundation, with Yellowhawk and three other hospitals. The program...