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61. Migrant Clinicians Network: Tools and Resources - Resources
Reviewed: May 2025

Features a catalog of tools and resources for migrant and community health centers. Includes resources such as healthcare organizations, patient education tools, clinical guidelines, and documents on primary care issues.

...guidelines, and documents on primary care issues. --- Migrant Clinicians Network: Tools and Resources Features a catalog...

62. Dissemination Toolkit - Resources
Reviewed: Feb 2026

Offers health services researchers a variety of approaches and products to help communicate research findings to their target audience. Provides general guidelines, as well as advice related to specific product types, such as fact sheets and policy briefs, and to particular methods of communication, including social media.

...guidelines, as well as advice related to specific product types, such as fact sheets and policy...

63. Scoring Shortage Designations - Resources
Reviewed: Feb 2026

Provides an overview of the Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designation scoring criteria, as well as Maternity Care Target Areas (MCTAs). Covers additional criteria and guidelines specific to each of the three types of designations: primary care, dental and mental health. Also covers scoring criteria for the Medically Underserved Area and Medically Underserved Population (MUA/P) designation.

...guidelines specific to each of the three types of designations: primary care, dental and mental...

64. The Role of Health Literacy and Communication Habits on Previous Colorectal Cancer Screening among Low-Income and Uninsured Patients - Resources
Date: Feb 2015

Presents an analysis of a survey of low-income uninsured patients in rural and urban areas who received financial help for a colonoscopy in a primary care clinic to identify any significant relationships between limited health literacy, communication skills, and adherence to colorectal cancer screening guidelines.

...guidelines. --- The Role of Health Literacy and Communication Habits on Previous Colorectal Cancer Screening among...

65. Patterns, Prognostic Implications, and Rural-Urban Disparities in Optimal GDMT Following HFrEF Diagnosis Among Medicare Beneficiaries - Resources
Date: Jun 2024

Compares rural and urban patterns of use and patient outcomes of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) uptake for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), utilizing 2015-2020 Medicare fee-for-service data. Provides data on rural and urban disparities in receipt of optimal GDMT treatment and mortality.

...guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) uptake for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), utilizing...

66. Inequity, Workload, and External Factors: A Descriptive Study on High-Intensity Statin Prescriptions for Patients with Clinical Cardiovascular Disease and at High Risk for Cardiovascular Disease - Resources
Date: Oct 2025

Examines adherence to guidelines related to statin prescriptions to treat atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Utilizes medical chart data from 20,923 ASCVD patients according to statin prescribing rates and patient demographics, including rural versus urban residence.

...guidelines related to statin prescriptions to treat atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Utilizes medical chart data...

67. Crisis Services: Meeting Needs, Saving Lives - Resources
Date: Aug 2020

Presents the National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care Best Practices Toolkit and a number of companion papers on crisis care. Toolkit highlights best practices for crisis care and the papers discuss a number of related topics, including homelessness, substance use, opioid-related deaths, and rural and frontier areas, among other issues.

...Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care Best Practices Toolkit and a number of companion papers...

68. How Actual Practice of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Aligns with the Recommended National Scope of Practice in Rural Versus Urban Areas of the U.S. - Resources
Date: Feb 2022

Results of a study examining the extent to which EMS professionals perform skills that correspond to their credential levels, and determining whether there are variations in adherence to guidelines between agencies serving rural or urban populations and agencies with unpaid versus paid staffing models. Examines credentials for emergency medical responders, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), advanced EMTs, and paramedics, and uses data from EMS encounters in 2018 from 1,056 EMS agencies nationally. Features statistics on various procedures and predictors of performing a procedure within the scope of practice model, with breakdowns by 4 levels of population density.

...guidelines between agencies serving rural or urban populations and agencies with unpaid versus paid staffing...

69. Social Risks and Nonadherence to Recommended Cancer Screening Among US Adults - Resources
Date: Jan 2025

Examines social risks associated with nonadherence to U.S. Preventive Services Task Force cancer screening guidelines, utilizing 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data. See Table 2 for demographic data breakdowns on prevalence and risk ratios of screening nonadherence by type of test, including rural-urban dwelling.

...guidelines, utilizing 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data. See Table 2 for demographic data...

70. CMS and States Launch $275 Million Initiative to Recruit and Retain Nurses in Nursing Homes - News
Date: Oct 23, 2026

Announces a new initiative to support recruiting and retaining nurses for rural and higher labor shortage area nursing homes through loan repayment and stipends in exchange for 3 years of employment in qualified facilities. Describes eligibility guidelines for nurses interested in the program. Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

...guidelines for nurses interested in the program. Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. --- CMS and States...