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431. Healthcare Access in Rural Communities Overview - Topic Guides
Reviewed: Nov 8, 2024

Provides resources and answers frequently asked questions related to healthcare access. Discusses the importance of primary care for rural residents and covers barriers to healthcare access in rural areas, such as transportation, insurance, and workforce issues. Highlights strategies to improve access to care for rural residents.

...diabetes, heart conditions, and high blood pressure compared to urban veterans. Moreover, suicide rates are higher...

432. Culture and Self-Determination Provide Strength to Heal - Resources
Date: Sep 2017

Describes how the Seneca Nation of Indians has incorporated its culture into programs and community initiatives. Examples include school and adult Seneca language immersion programs, restoring indigenous plants, cultivating native animals, and the Seneca Strong program to address substance abuse by incorporating prevention and sobriety programming into traditional rites of passage, outdoor skills camps, and powwows. The Seneca Nation of Indians (New York) received the 2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health Prize.

...Diabetes · Environmental health · Population health · Schools · Substance use and misuse · Tribal communities · Wellness, health promotion...

433. Case Study: Hospital and Fitness Center Join Forces for a Healthy Community - Resources
Reviewed: Oct 2025

Highlights a partnership between Columbus Community Hospital, located in Columbus, Nebraska, and the YMCA that resulted in a number of additional or improved health and wellness services in the community, including a new fitness center. Shares the key steps, project successes, lessons learned, and more.

...Diabetes · Networking and collaboration · Obesity and weight control · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Nebraska...

434. Rural Community Engagement and Cultural Considerations in the Design and Deployment of Remote Health Monitoring Systems: A Scoping Review - Resources
Date: Apr 2026

Presents a literature review exploring whether remote health monitoring systems (RHMS) are designed with rural communities in mind as a solution for healthcare access issues. Details RHMS literature by study design, healthcare focus, and issue being monitored, among other measures.

...Diabetes · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Technology for health...

435. Responding to the HIV Crisis in Scott County, Indiana: Q&A with Dr. William Cooke - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Nov 28, 2018

Scott County, Indiana, has been in the national spotlight since experiencing the largest HIV outbreak in rural America's recent history. The town's only physician at the time, Dr. William Cooke, took action to bring healing and hope to his community of Austin and the surrounding county. In this Q&A, he shares the motivation behind his compassionate approach to care. - The Rural Monitor

...diabetes clinic, and the hepatitis C/HIV clinic. I can also provide HIV care for a neighboring...

436. Are HHC Scores a Reliable Health Status Indicator Across Rural and Urban Areas? - Resources
Date: Apr 2025

Examines differences in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) risk scores between rural and urban Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) beneficiaries and analyzes which factors drive observed differences. Features statistics with breakdowns by urban, large rural, small rural, and isolated rural areas for 4 chronic conditions in 2019-2020.

...disease · Chronic respiratory conditions · Diabetes · Medicare · Mental health conditions · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...

437. Patient Navigation and Service Delivery Strategies to Improve Healthcare Access – RHIhub Toolkit - Toolkits
Reviewed: May 11, 2026

Provides information on patient navigation and service delivery strategies to improve healthcare access to address social determinants of health in rural communities.

...diabetes in pregnancy, and congestive heart failure. Navajo CHWs employed through COPE are known as Community...

438. The State of Our Health: A Statewide Health Assessment of Pennsylvania, August 2023 Update - Resources
Date: Aug 2023

Identifies specific health challenges in Pennsylvania and indicates where the largest improvements can be made. Features sections on social determinants of health, access to care, substance use, chronic diseases, mental health, maternal and infant health, injury and violence prevention, infectious diseases and immunization, Health Professional Shortage Areas, and environmental health. Includes references to rural throughout.

...Diabetes · Environmental health · Food security and nutrition · HIV and AIDS · Health disparities · Health workforce shortage...

439. Mental Health Program Considerations for Rural Older Adults - RHIhub Toolkit - Toolkits
Reviewed: May 15, 2024

Information on considerations for implementing mental health programs for rural older adults.

...Diabetes, lung disease, cardiovascular disease, and other comorbidities associated with aging, disability, and lower physical...

440. Telehealth Brings Important Services to Rural Long-Term Care Facilities - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Aug 31, 2022

A skilled nursing facility in New Hampshire and national experts share the benefits telehealth services can bring to the residents and staff of rural long-term care facilities as well as the challenges some facilities face in providing these services. - The Rural Monitor

...diabetes and their heart disease. But it's also the people that were homeless and couldn...