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1271. How States Can Boost Behavioral Health Services in Rural Communities - Resources
Date: Oct 2025

Explores ways state officials can utilize federal funds to increase mental health and substance use treatment for rural communities. Highlights strategies for increasing access to behavioral health services in rural communities that can be funded through the Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program.

...Funding · Hospitals · Opioids · Policy · Rural Health Transformation Program · Telehealth · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...

1272. Telepharmacy and Quality of Medication Use in Rural Areas, 2013–2019 - Resources
Date: Sep 2020

Uses dispensing records from traditional pharmacies and telepharmacies in the Midwest to compare patients' adherence to and inappropriate use of prescription medications between 2013 and 2019. Includes data and statistics on medication adherence and use, with information broken down by patient characteristics, such as age, rurality, payer, risk, and more.

...Access · Pharmacy and prescription drugs · Prescription drug misuse · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth...

1273. The Effectiveness of Policies to Improve Primary Care Access for Underserved Populations: An Assessment of the Literature - Resources
Date: Jan 2022

Review of research literature to assess whether policy initiatives targeting primary care access for rural and underserved populations has been effective in reducing healthcare disparities. Initiatives considered include availability, accessibility, accommodation, affordability, and acceptability.

...retention of health professionals · Reimbursement and payment models · Rural Health Clinics · Scope of practice · Telehealth...

1274. Telemedicine and Primary Care Obesity Management in Rural Areas – Innovative Approach for Older Adults? - Resources
Date: Jan 2017

Explores telemedicine as a potential delivery tool for the Medicare Obesity Benefit in primary care settings. Describes challenges in implementing the benefit in rural areas, including increasing older adult populations, shortages in primary care and specialized healthcare providers, reimbursement issues, and transportation barriers. Presents the potential utility of telemedicine in rural obesity care and non-physician staff delivery options, which require regulatory changes.

...Geriatrics, 17, 6 01/2017 Access · Medicare · Obesity and weight control · Older adults · Reimbursement and payment models · Telehealth...

1275. Tennessee Rural Health Care Task Force: Improving Rural Health Care Across Tennessee - Resources
Date: Jun 2023

Report from the Tennessee Rural Health Care Task Force. Offers recommendations to the state in the areas of access to care, workforce development, and social drivers of health. Discusses rural health research and advocacy, health insurance, telemedicine, workforce training, grants and loans, and more.

...education and training · Oral health · Scope of practice · Social determinants of health · Specialty care · Telehealth · Tennessee...

1276. Community Health Centers Seek to Prepare Medicaid Beneficiaries, and Themselves, for the Risks Ahead - Resources
Date: May 2023

Explores how Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), including an FQHC serving rural North Carolina, are helping Medicaid beneficiaries stay enrolled or find alternate coverage during the post-COVID-19 redetermination process. Describes how operations of these FQHCs have been changed by funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and pandemic-related regulatory flexibilities.

...Healthcare business and finance · Legislation and regulations · Medicaid · Telehealth · Indiana · Louisiana · North Carolina · South Carolina...

1277. National Health Center Financial and Operational Performance Analysis: 2020–2023 - Resources
Date: Jun 2025

Examines financial and operational characteristics of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) from 2020-2023. Explores FQHC growth and expansion, patient and payer mix, revenue and growth mix, staffing and productivity, operational trends, financial performance, and more. Compares data on rural FQHCs to urban and national FQHC data. Requires name, email address, and organization information to download.

...Health workforce · Healthcare business and finance · Healthcare quality · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth...

1278. Substance Use in Rural Central Appalachia: Current Status and Treatment Considerations - Resources
Date: Apr 2017

Examines the factors in rural Central Appalachia that influence substance misuse and the treatments, strategies, and interventions to curb drug misuse and improve treatment outcomes. Discusses how the combination of poverty, work-related distress, lack of healthcare coverage, and the shortage of qualified providers of substance use treatments affect the need for a multifaceted policy approach in the region.

...Statistics and data · Substance use and misuse · Telehealth · North Carolina · Ohio · Tennessee · Virginia · West Virginia...

1279. Rural Healthcare Surge Readiness - Resources
Date: Jul 2020

Resources for rural healthcare systems preparing for and responding to a COVID-19 surge. Includes resources for emergency medical services, inpatient and hospital care, ambulatory care, and long-term care settings. Addresses a wide range of topics including healthcare operations, space, supplies, funding, and more.

...facilities · Hospitals · Inpatient care · Long-term care · Occupational health and safety · Outpatient care · Policy · Telehealth...

1280. Community Health Centers' Progress and Challenges in Meeting Patients' Essential Primary Care Needs: Findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2024 National Survey of Federally Qualified Health Centers - Resources
Date: Aug 2024

Summarizes findings from the 2024 Commonwealth Fund National Survey of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), which received responses from 737 FQHC leaders in fall 2023 and spring 2024. Explores the extent to which FQHCs achieve primary care accessibility, comprehensiveness, and coordination. Compares findings to data from the 2018 version of this survey to assess how care delivery changed over time. Describes barriers FQHCs face in offering high-quality care. Presents data by rural and urban location throughout.

...workforce supply and demand · Healthcare quality · Primary care · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth...