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1381. Indian Health Service: Relief Funding and Agency Response to COVID-19 Pandemic - Resources
Date: Mar 2022

Describes the COVID-19 relief funding for Indian Health Service (IHS), tribal, and urban Indian organization health facilities and how the funds were used to meet immediate and longstanding system needs. Discusses the initial IHS response to the pandemic and steps IHS took to address challenges that its hospitals faced responding to the pandemic.

...preparedness and response · Funding · Hospitals · Infectious diseases · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth · Tribal communities...

1382. Critical Access Hospitals: Views on How Medicare Payment and Other Factors Affect Behavioral Health Services - Resources
Date: Jun 2023

Provides an overview of Medicare payment policies for care provided by Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). Explores how CAHs provide behavioral health services in their communities. Summarizes findings from interviews with officials from 10 CAHs, stakeholder organizations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) regarding how Medicare payment policies and other factors affect CAHs' ability to provide behavioral health services.

...Access Hospitals · Legislation and regulations · Medicare · Policy · Reimbursement and payment models · Rural Health Clinics · Telehealth...

1383. Maternal Health: Availability of Hospital-Based Obstetric Care in Rural Areas - Resources
Date: Oct 2022

Explores the availability of hospital-based obstetric services in rural areas. Summarizes stakeholder perspectives on the factors affecting the availability of these services and on the efforts federal agencies, states, and others could take to increase the access to obstetric care. Highlights six programs identified by researchers and provider associations as effective at increasing obstetric care in rural areas.

...retention of health professionals · Reimbursement and payment models · Service delivery models · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Women...

1384. Defense Health Care: Plans Needed to Ensure Implementation of Required Elements for TRICARE's Managed Care Support Contracts - Resources
Date: Feb 2020

Report highlights the Government Accountability Office recommendations for the implementation of changes to the Department of Defense's TRICARE managed support contracts that were required by Congress. Evaluates the specific improvements relating to healthcare delivery and touches on their importance in rural areas.

...importance in rural areas. 02/2020 Government Accountability Office Access · Healthcare networks · Healthcare quality · Policy · Telehealth · Veterans...

1385. Mental Health Care: Access Challenges for Covered Consumers and Relevant Federal Efforts - Resources
Date: Mar 2022

Explores the experiences of consumers with health insurance coverage in accessing timely and appropriate mental healthcare. Describes challenges accessing mental health services, including workforce shortages and broadband availability in rural areas. Identifies ongoing and planned federal efforts to address these challenges.

...Access · Behavioral health workforce · Health workforce supply and demand · Healthcare facilities · Mental health · Policy · Telehealth...

1386. Palliative Video Consultation and Symptom Distress Among Rural Inpatients: A Randomized Clinical Trial - Resources
Date: Jul 2025

Results of a study to assess whether culturally-based palliative care video consultation improves symptom distress compared with usual inpatient care without palliative care. Uses data collected from July 2020 to December 2023 from 3 rural hospitals in Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina.

...Chronic disease management · Culture · Hospice and palliative care · Inpatient care · Telehealth · Alabama · Mississippi · South Carolina...

1387. Key Facts About Medicare Beneficiaries in Rural Areas - Resources
Date: Jun 2025

Presents information and data about rural Medicare beneficiaries, including demographic and health characteristics, access to healthcare, and satisfaction with care. Compares data on beneficiaries living in urban areas, rural areas adjacent to an urban area, and rural areas not adjacent to an urban area.

...06/2025 KFF Health conditions · Health insurance · Income · Medicaid · Medicare · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth...

1388. VA Health Care: Efforts to Prioritize and Translate Research into Clinical Practice - Resources
Date: Jan 2020

Examines how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sets priorities for funding research, VA efforts to facilitate translation of research into clinical practice, and coordination between VA's research program and other parts of the VA. Briefly highlights a research study on the use of telemedicine outreach for rural veterans with PTSD.

...PTSD. 01/2020 Government Accountability Office Mental health conditions · Policy · Research methods and resources · Telehealth · Veterans...

1389. Evaluation Planning for Community Health Programs - RHIhub Toolkit - Toolkits
Reviewed: Feb 29, 2024

How evaluation can show that your rural community health program has had an impact.

...Telehealth Toolkit Transportation Toolkit Unintentional Injury Prevention Toolkit Resources to Learn More Tools to Evaluate...

1390. Association of a Remotely Offered Infectious Diseases eConsult Service with Improved Clinical Outcomes - Resources
Date: Jan 2020

Discusses an asynchronous infectious disease eConsultation program for hospitalized patients, and examines the program's effect on mortality, readmission, and hospital transfer at two rural Minnesota hospitals. Compares the implementation of this service with other telemedicine programs. Describes referring provider and infection disease specialists' satisfaction with the eConsultation service.

...Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 7(1) 01/2020 Access · Infectious diseases · Inpatient care · Mortality · Telehealth · Minnesota...