Healthcare Access in Rural Communities – Resources

Bright Spots: Case Studies in Innovative Rural Healthcare
Profiles 8 rural healthcare facilities and communities that successfully addressed issues regarding access to healthcare and explores commonalities across the case studies. Describes how these initiatives optimize leadership, cultural transformation, data utilization, rural maternity care, and external partnerships.
Date: 2021
Sponsoring organization: Texas A&M Rural and Community Health Institute
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The 2014 Update of the Rural-Urban Chartbook
Updates information presented in Health, United States, 2001: With Urban and Rural Health Chartbook. Highlights current trends and disparities across different levels of metro and nonmetropolitan counties, including population characteristics; health-related behaviors and risk factors; mortality rates; healthcare access and use; mental health measures; and other health measures such as teen birth rates, tooth loss, and activity limitations due to chronic disease. Individual data tables are available in an Excel file.
Author(s): Michael Meit, Alana Knudson, Tess Gilbert, et al.
Date: 10/2014
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Reform Policy Research Center
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Rural Mobile Healthcare Toolkit
Resources and best practices to help rural communities develop mobile healthcare programs. Identifies program models and examples, and discusses implementation, evaluation, sustainability, and dissemination of program results.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Mobile Health Map Clinics
Map of mobile health clinics. Includes filters by state, care delivered, primary population, and community types including frontier and rural.
Sponsoring organization: Mobile Health Map
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Medicaid Primary Care Workforce Tracker
Interactive tool presenting state and county-level data on the primary care workforce providing healthcare to Medicaid enrollees. Uses data from the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) from 2016-2021 to identify primary care clinicians who saw Medicaid beneficiaries each year.
Sponsoring organization: Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity
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Exploring the Health Care Challenges Rural Americans Face Across 5 States
Articles from Rural RX, a series intended to explore the forces that shape rural healthcare in America. Features programs in Alabama, Texas, Colorado, New York, and West Virginia.
Author(s): Nicole Ellis, William Brangham, Caleb Hellerman
Sponsoring organization: PBS News Hour
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Medicaid/CHIP Coverage by School Districts, 2020-2024
Provides data on the percent of children covered by Medicaid/CHIP by school district, with separate, searchable lists for each state.
Sponsoring organization: Georgetown University Health Policy Institute
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March of Dimes Maternity Care Deserts Dashboard
An interactive dashboard that depicts county-level access to maternity care, with counties characterized by maternity care deserts, low access to maternity care, moderate access to maternity care, or full access to maternity care.
Sponsoring organization: March of Dimes
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Health Insurance Coverage, 2008-2024
Animated map showing annual county-level data on health insurance coverage from 2008-2024, based on the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE).
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
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Maternal and Infant Health Mapping Tool
Map-based access to county-level data on maternal health, infant health, and health resources. Includes data on pre-pregnancy health status, preterm births, infant mortality, access to prenatal care, availability of providers, health insurance coverage, demographics, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Maternal and Child Health Bureau
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