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541. Ready to Respond: Mental Health Beyond Crisis and COVID-19
Date: Sep 2021

Report highlights strategies for addressing the need for mental health services in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Details seven recommendations for state mental health programs post-pandemic and discusses workforce challenges and how telehealth can be used to expand access to care to rural and underserved areas.

...telehealth can be used to expand access to care to rural and underserved areas. --- View...

542. Rural-Urban Mental Health Disparities in the United States During COVID-19
Date: Aug 2020

Explores rural and urban mental health access during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discusses the expanded use of telehealth, the lack of broadband access, and mental health provider shortages in rural areas.

...telehealth, the lack of broadband access, and mental health provider shortages in rural areas. --- View...

543. Mental Health System Development in Rural and Remote Areas during COVID-19
Date: Sep 2021

Report highlights the barriers faced by rural, remote, and tribal communities to accessing mental healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. Details rates of mental health treatment over the past year and compares rural and urban communities. Discusses factors affecting access in rural areas such as workforce shortages, lack of telehealth services, and lack of culturally competent care for American Indian and Alaska Native populations, among others.

...telehealth services, and lack of culturally competent care for American Indian and Alaska Native populations...

544. COVID-19 Reveals Emerging Opportunities for Rural Public Health
Date: Sep 2020

Explores potential and existing public health innovations that rural communities can implement to address challenges brought on or exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, including lack of funding for local health departments, insufficient broadband, and more. Describes the expansion of telehealth services, discusses rural/urban disparities, and offers recommendations for improvement.

...telehealth services, discusses rural/urban disparities, and offers recommendations for improvement. --- View more COVID-19 Reveals...

545. Telemedicine Services During COVID‐19: Considerations for Medically Underserved Populations
Date: Jan 2021

Discusses the use of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and details some of the barriers to its use in underserved communities. Highlights the lack of broadband internet in rural areas and on tribal lands, as well the lack of technological capability among older people.

...telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and details some of the barriers to its use in underserved...

546. Symptoms of the Disease: The Epidemiological, Economic, and Public Health Impacts of COVID-19 on the Battle Born State
Date: Apr 2024

Reports on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nevada between March 2020 and December 2022 on various healthcare, economic, and sociodemographic indicators. Includes rural and urban comparisons related to case and mortality rates, telehealth utilization, homelessness, and child welfare.

...telehealth utilization, homelessness, and child welfare. --- View more Symptoms of the Disease: The Epidemiological, Economic...

547. Project ECHO's Complex Care Initiative: Building Capacity to Help "Superutilizers" in Underserved Communities
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.

...telehealth to support primary care clinicians in underserved areas. Focuses on a project targeting Medicaid...

548. Restoring Access to Maternity Care in Rural America
Date: Sep 2021

Examines regional partnerships to build rural access to maternity care through hub-and-spoke models of education and support from urban healthcare organizations to rural maternity providers, investments in telehealth, and remote monitoring systems. Discusses barriers to maternity care access in rural areas and highlights local examples of maternal health provider networks, investments in the rural maternity workforce, and policy implications of developing rural maternity care.

...telehealth, and remote monitoring systems. Discusses barriers to maternity care access in rural areas and highlights...

549. Full Committee Oversight Hearing: "Rural Access: Is VA Meeting All Veterans Where They Live?"
Date: Jan 2024

The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs full committee oversight hearing discusses rural veteran's access to healthcare through the VA. Features a discussion of the VA's role as both a healthcare provider and a payer via its Community Care Program. Highlights technological challenges related to telehealth, such as lack of broadband connections and technological literacy of older veterans. Presents testimony from the VA, the Government Accountability Office, the Navajo Nation, and veteran advocacy groups, among others.

...telehealth, such as lack of broadband connections and technological literacy of older veterans. Presents testimony...

550. Behavioral Health Care Managers: An Approach to Integrating Behavioral Health in Rural Primary Care Practices
Reviewed: May 2024

Describes the benefits of integrating behavioral healthcare into rural primary care practice to improve access to mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, and improve health outcomes. Highlights the role of a behavioral health care manager (BHCM) to screen and monitor patients, coordinate care with other healthcare providers, track treatment response, and recommend patient medications. Discusses the advantage of providing behavioral healthcare via telehealth, and importance of establishing clinical support and guidance for the BHCM.

...telehealth, and importance of establishing clinical support and guidance for the BHCM. --- View more Behavioral...