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621. COVID-19 Health Care Flexibilities: Perspectives, Experiences, and Lessons Learned - Resources
Date: May 2021

Recording of a May 19, 2021, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance hearing on healthcare flexibilities implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on telehealth. Discusses lessons learned and considerations for the extension of these flexibilities beyond the pandemic.

...telehealth. Discusses lessons learned and considerations for the extension of these flexibilities beyond the pandemic...

622. Mental Health Care in the United States: The Case for Federal Action - Resources
Date: Mar 2022

Bipartisan report summarizing findings from three Senate Finance Committee hearings and a request for information regarding challenges in the mental healthcare system. Describes the prevalence of behavioral health conditions in the United States, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and spending on behavioral health. Outlines key challenges across five cross-cutting areas: the behavioral health workforce; children, adolescents, and young adults; access to care, integration, and care coordination; mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) parity; and telehealth. Includes information on challenges facing rural and underserved communities.

...telehealth. Includes information on challenges facing rural and underserved communities. --- Mental Health Care in the United...

623. Evaluating the HCIA - Behavioral Health/Substance Abuse Awards: First Annual Report - Resources
Date: Dec 2014

Evaluations of 10 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on mental health and substance abuse services. Provides information on whether and how each project addressed the needs of underserved areas, including rural areas. One rural-focused project used telehealth to deliver services. Other projects provided transportation to help meet rural needs.

...telehealth to deliver services. Other projects provided transportation to help meet rural needs. --- Evaluating the HCIA...

624. Provider Shortages and Limited Availability of Behavioral Health Services in New Mexico's Medicaid Managed Care - Resources
Date: Sep 2019

Examines the supply and distribution of behavioral health providers and prescribers across New Mexico, with a focus on services available to Medicaid managed care enrollees. Includes data for rural and frontier counties. Discusses rural broadband connectivity challenges that impact the use of telehealth to address access. Offers policy recommendations. Findings are likely to be relevant to behavioral healthcare access in other states' rural and frontier counties.

...telehealth to address access. Offers policy recommendations. Findings are likely to be relevant to behavioral...

625. Home Health Agencies Used Multiple Strategies to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Although Some Challenges Persist - Resources
Date: Oct 2022

Presents results of a survey of home health agencies (HHAs) conducted between September through December 2021 to explore the challenges they faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discusses challenges related to staffing, infection control, the use of telehealth, and the adequacy of emergency preparedness plans, as well as challenges specific to rural HHAs. Provides recommendations for how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) can help HHAs prepare for and respond to current and future infectious disease outbreaks and changes to the home health care landscape.

...telehealth, and the adequacy of emergency preparedness plans, as well as challenges specific to rural...

626. Rethinking Rural Health: FY 2020 Year in Review - Resources
Date: Nov 2020

Provides an overview of Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) programs and activities that have affected rural health and healthcare in fiscal year 2020. Focuses on nine priority areas: COVID-19, maternal health, Medicare Advantage (MA) and the Federally-facilitated Marketplace (FFM), quality improvement, practitioner engagement, patient empowerment and person-centered care, Medicare and Medicaid payment and policy, models and demonstrations, and telehealth.

...telehealth. --- Rethinking Rural Health: FY 2020 Year in Review Provides an overview of Centers for Medicaid...

627. Rural and Urban Clinician Views on COVID-19's Impact on Substance Use Treatment for Individuals on Community Supervision in Kentucky - Resources
Date: Mar 2024

Examines the impacts of COVID-19 on the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment system. Provides information from 25 interviews with rural and urban community supervision clinicians within the Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC). Discusses issues such as telehealth, technological challenges, inter/intra-agency collaboration, client information, and more.

...telehealth, technological challenges, inter/intra-agency collaboration, client information, and more. --- Rural and Urban Clinician Views on COVID...

628. Recruitment and Retention for Rural Health Facilities Overview - Topic Guides
Reviewed: Oct 2, 2025

Includes information on strategies and incentives to attract providers, positive aspects of rural practice, organizations and programs that support recruitment and retention, statistics on vacancies, options for recruiting international workers, and suggestions for compensation and benefits that might be offered to potential employees.

...telehealth and other technology be used to make rural practice more attractive to candidates? What...

629. Rx for the Rural Healthcare Workforce and Access to Care - Resources
Date: May 2022

Podcast with Tom Morris of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy about trends related to the rural healthcare workforce and efforts to overcome challenges. Discusses the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, rural hospital closures, telehealth, graduate medical education in rural areas, community health workers and community paramedics, funding opportunities to promote healthcare access in rural areas, the opioid crisis, and more.

...telehealth, graduate medical education in rural areas, community health workers and community paramedics, funding opportunities...

630. The Forgotten Population - Resources
Date: Nov 2006

Describes the use of telehealth and home-based healthcare interventions to address a mental health crisis among elderly Americans in rural areas.

...telehealth and home-based healthcare interventions to address a mental health crisis among elderly Americans...