- 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
- NRHA Continues Partnership to Advance Rural Oral Health
- Comments Requested on Mobile Crisis Team Services: An Implementation Toolkit Draft
- Q&A: What Are the Challenges and Opportunities of Small-Town Philanthropy?
Rural Hospice Workers Struggle to Overcome Physical and Emotional Barriers to Care
Tribal organizations and activists step up as Covid-19 begins to threaten mental wellness among tribes hit hard by the pandemic. Read more here.
Rural Counties Set Record for New Cases of Covid-19
By Tim Marema
The cumulative number of infections in rural counties jumped 13% in the last week, a faster rate than the rest of the nation. Read more here.
Community Paramedicine Impact Reference Guide
For those intending to research, plan, implement, evaluate, or otherwise consider community paramedicine (CP) systems, this guide from the National Rural Health Resource Center includes a compilation of cited references that describe the impact of previously implemented CP initiatives. Read more here.
CDC Guidance for HIV Self-Testing During Quarantine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued brief guidance for health departments, community-based organizations, and other clinical providers for expanding their support for HIV self-testing where face-to-face testing services have been disrupted. Read more here.
CDC Training Pediatric Medical Providers to Recognize ACEs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created an online training platform that focuses on the central role that pediatric medical providers play in understanding, recognizing, preventing, and treating adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Read more here.
Medicare COVID-19 Data Release
On Monday, June 22, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released preliminary data on COVID-19 derived from Medicare claims. Between January 1 and May 16, 2020, over 325,000 Medicare beneficiaries were diagnosed with COVID-19, and nearly 110,000 of those were hospitalized. The snapshot breaks down COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations for Medicare beneficiaries by state; race/ethnicity; dual eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid; age; gender; and urban/rural areas. Read more here.
Supply and Distribution of the Primary Care Workforce in Rural America: 2019
Researchers at the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center studied county-level data to calculate provider-to-population ratios of primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants and then compared those ratios between metropolitan, micropolitan, and non-core counties. Nationally, the provider-to-population ratio of family physicians is slightly higher in rural than urban areas, but the overall per capita supply of primary care providers remains substantially lower in rural areas than urban areas. Read more here.
AHRQ: Characteristics and Costs of Potentially Preventable Inpatient Stays
The Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ) examines the costs of potentially preventable hospitalizations, with a comparison of metropolitan and rural hospitals. The report is part of AHRQs Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, a collection of data and analyzation tools to enable research on a broad range of health policy issues. Read more here.
Experts Talk About the Rural Aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease
A new feature article in the Rural Monitor looks extensively at data, challenges, and resources Alzheimer’s in rural areas. Read more here.
NIH National COVID Cohort Collaborative
As part of an effort to help scientists understand COVID and develop treatments, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a centralized, secure enclave to store and study clinical record data from people who have been diagnosed. The collaborative aims to transform clinical information into knowledge urgently needed to study COVID-19, including health risk factors that indicate better or worse outcomes of the disease, and identify potentially effective treatments. Read more here.