- GAO Seeks New Members for Tribal and Indigenous Advisory Council
- VA: Staff Sergeant Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program Funding Opportunity
- Telehealth Study Recruiting Veterans Now
- USDA Delivers Immediate Relief to Farmers, Ranchers and Rural Communities Impacted by Recent Disasters
- Submit Nominations for Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) Committees
- Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation of the Medicare Program (Executive Order 14192) - Request for Information
- Dr. Mehmet Oz Shares Vision for CMS
- CMS Refocuses on its Core Mission and Preserving the State-Federal Medicaid Partnership
- Social Factors Help Explain Worse Cardiovascular Health among Adults in Rural Vs. Urban Communities
- Reducing Barriers to Participation in Population-Based Total Cost of Care (PB-TCOC) Models and Supporting Primary and Specialty Care Transformation: Request for Input
- Secretary Kennedy Renews Public Health Emergency Declaration to Address National Opioid Crisis
- Secretary Kennedy Renews Public Health Emergency Declaration to Address National Opioid Crisis
- 2025 Marketplace Integrity and Affordability Proposed Rule
- Rural America Faces Growing Shortage of Eye Surgeons
- Comments Requested on Mobile Crisis Team Services: An Implementation Toolkit Draft
The Impact of Coronavirus on Households Across America
This is the third in a series of reports based on surveys conducted by NPR, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. With a significant section on rural households, the report finds that many challenges cascading from the pandemic are due to long-standing inequities.
GAO: Federal Efforts on COVID-19 Could Be Strengthened
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reviews data collection, equipment and testing supplies, and economic payouts, among other issues related to the pandemic and makes 16 recommendations to address them. Read more here.
New Research on Child Health
A new report from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics compares 41 indicators of well-being in children by the type of community they live in. (These are metropolitan, nonmetropolitan, micropolitan, or rural, according to the Office of Management and Budget.) The brief finds that infant mortality rates were highest in rural counties (6.8 per 1,000). During the same time, the mortality rate for Hispanic and American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic infants was also higher for those living in rural counties than those living in micropolitan and metropolitan counties. Separately, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Mental Health Treatment Among Children Aged 5-17 years, 2019, finding that as the level of urbanization decreased, the percentage of children who had taken medication for their mental health increased.
Registration Now Open for Rural Assembly Everywhere
Registration has officially begun for Rural Assembly Everywhere. You can be one of the first to claim your spot and join us Oct. 26 to 30 for a great lineup of speakers, breakouts and happy hours.
This includes all the keynote speakers we’ve announced so far, such as New York Times bestselling author and journalist Sarah Smarsh, Krista Tippett of The On Being Project, Harvard University political theorist Dr. Danielle Allen, and former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.
Register today to attend Rural Assembly Everywhere and take part in the conversation, free and from anywhere!
Rural Assembly Everywhere is a virtual festival for the curious and the critical, the listeners and the connectors. It’s geared toward rural allies, neighbors, and admirers. The goal of Rural Assembly Everywhere is to create an experience that will inform, entertain, inspire, and demonstrate how we belong to each other. Learn more and register at ruralassembly.org/everywhere.
Policy Pennings: Over One-Third of 2020 Net Farm Income Is Expected to Be Government Payments
By Harwood D. Schaffer and Daryll E. Ray
Even though this year’s farm net incomes were higher prices for agricultural products continue to fall. It was the increase in government subsidies, not production, that pulled farmers into the black.
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Covid-19 Dashboard for Rural America
Track the Pandemic with The Daily Yonder’s new Covid-19 Dashboard. The Daily Yonder is tracking the spread of Covid-19 across rural America. Their dashboard is updated weekly with the latest numbers, interactive maps and graphics, and related reporting.
Red-Zone Report: Rural Counties Set Record for New Covid-19 Cases
By Tim Murphy and Tim Marema
The number of new cases climbed for the second week in a row. Since mid-September, the rate of new rural infections has increased 48%.
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CDC Updates Revised Guidance for COVID-19 Testing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its previously revised guidance for coronavirus testing on Friday to say that testing asymptomatic people who were exposed to COVID-19 is recommended for treatment and contact tracing.
CHW Toolkit & Others on RHIhub
The Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub) has recently updated one of their toolkits that includes information on the role of community health workers (CHW) in rural communities, examples of CHW programs and resources to implement a program for your community. To view the toolkit and other step-by-step guides to help build effective community health, click here.
HAP Launches New Resources to Foster a Resilient Workforce
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a sharper focus on the need to support healthcare worker wellbeing. To support Pennsylvania’s healthcare workforce, The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) has developed a resource tool entitled, Resources for a Resilient Workforce. This resource tool provides an overview of the impact of burnout on healthcare workers, finances and patient safety. It also includes guidance to build resiliency and a compendium of resources and strategies to implement resiliency initiatives, as well as best practices from Pennsylvania hospitals.