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401. From the Front Lines: COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts in Rural Communities Hit by the Opioid Epidemic - Resources - Archive
Date: May 2021

Examines the COVID-19 response, including testing, contact tracing, and vaccination efforts, of HRSA Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) grantees. Discusses challenges related to vaccination efforts to reach rural individuals with substance use disorder/opioid use disorder and other rural residents.

...Community health workers · Illicit drug use · Prescription drug misuse · Public health · Statistics and data · Vaccination...

402. Depression in a Depressed Area: Deservingness, Mental Illness, and Treatment in the Contemporary Rural U.S. - Resources
Date: Dec 2018

Examines the concepts of health-related deservingness and local moral economics to understand the diversity of moral responses to depression for rural women living in Appalachian Kentucky, where economic distress has contributed to poor mental health. Women from a variety of ages, treatment encounters, work experiences, and family sizes, along with healthcare professionals from a variety of backgrounds and settings, participated in semi-structured interviews and focus groups.

...Community health workers · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Poverty · Primary care · Statistics and data · Stigma...

403. Bureau of Health Workforce Field Strength and Students and Trainees Dashboards - Resources
Reviewed: Oct 2025

Data tools and information related to the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps, and Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program participants. Allows users to access subsets of data by filtering on various program, location, shortage designation, and site attributes, including rural location. Offers insight into disciplines and school locations of future clinicians preparing to serve in shortage areas across the country.

...Community health workers · Dental workforce · Health workforce shortage designations · Health workforce supply and demand · Loans...

404. Virginia Oral Health Workforce Gap Assessment - Resources
Date: Dec 2023

Report describing challenges in ensuring that all Virginians have equitable access oral healthcare, and offering an actionable framework for addressing them. Features statistics on the Virginia oral healthcare workforce, including numbers of dentists and dental hygienists, numbers of dentists treating Medicaid patients by year from 2012-2022, and a map showing dental Health Professional Shortage Areas. Includes information about the Virginia state loan repayment program for eligible providers.

...Community health workers · Dental workforce · Health workforce shortage designations · Health workforce supply and demand · Loans...

405. Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Pilot: Closing the Gaps in Rural Complex Care - Resources
Date: Oct 2017

Profiles Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, a nonprofit corporation that established a pilot program to improve the health of rural patients through the use of technology and interdisciplinary care teams working together in Montana's Flathead Valley. Describes a $1 million innovation award from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to support their use of ReSource Teams and help care for high-cost, high-need Medicare patients in the region.

...Community Health Workers Connect with Patients in Rural Montana Profiles Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, a nonprofit...

406. Advancing Health Equity through Primary Care Policy: Priorities and Recommendations for California - Resources
Date: Aug 2024

Provides policy recommendations to improve access to primary care and improve health equity in California, summarizing perspectives and conclusions from policy, primary care, and health equity experts who participated in the 2023 Summit on Primary Care Policy to Advance Health Equity. Covers topics including engagement with community organizations, workforce development, access to care, data sharing, payment, and accountability. Discusses people who live in rural areas and other underserved populations throughout.

...Community health workers · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Financial aid for health career education · Health career...

407. Project ECHO's Complex Care Initiative: Building Capacity to Help "Superutilizers" in Underserved Communities - Resources
Date: Aug 2016

Describes a case study from the University of New Mexico's Project ECHO (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) program, which uses telehealth to support primary care clinicians in underserved areas. Focuses on a project targeting Medicaid beneficiaries with substance abuse and mental health issues, with details on two primary care teams being supported, including one in a rural New Mexico community.

...Community health workers · Health workforce education and training · Medicaid · Mental health · Primary care · Substance use and misuse...

408. Bi-State Primary Care Association - RHIhub Services Integration Toolkit - Toolkits
Reviewed: Apr 13, 2026

Bi-State Primary Care Association, a program increasing access to care for migrant farmworkers in six rural counties in Vermont.

...community health workers (CHWs) to provide the following services to migrant farmworkers: transportation, translation services...

409. PREVENT Pandemics Act (P.L. 117-328, Division FF, Title II) - Resources
Date: Aug 2023

Provides a section-by-section overview of the Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging New Threats, and Pandemics Act (PREVENT Pandemics Act), enacted as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. Describes the Continuing Education Support for Health Professionals Serving in Rural and Underserved Communities Program, which supports specialty training for primary care providers, as well as other rural-relevant provisions.

...Community health workers · Emergency preparedness and response · Health workforce · Health workforce education and training · Legislation...

410. Promising Practice: Educational Partnership Reaches Rural California Communities - Resources
Date: Aug 2019

Details a promising practice that works to expand health literacy among rural Latinos in California through a partnership between the California State Office of Rural Health and the California Department of Public Health's Office of Binational Border Health. Details the way the program is reaching rural Latinos through community health worker/promotores training.

...Offices of Rural Health Community health workers · Health literacy · Public health · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · California...