- Call for Experts! Standing Committee on Primary Care
- The Golden Hour: Medical Trauma in Rural Areas
- FORHP Staff Finalists for Service to America Medals
- Miles-Long Trains Are Blocking First Responders When Every Minute Counts
- Arizona AHEC: Filling a Need for Health Care Professionals
- OSU Launches First-of-its-kind Athletic Training - Sports Medicine ECHO
- Rural Hospitals Struggle With Staffing Shortage, and Not Just Doctors
- HHS Announces Over $65 Million to Address the Maternal Health Crisis and Invest in New Approaches to Care
- 8 Questions About Proposed Changes to Rural Floor Wage Index
- Collins, Cortez-Masto Lead Bipartisan Bill Protecting Rural Ambulance Services
- Baldwin, Ernst Lead Bipartisan Bill to Bolster Mental Health Resources for Farmers, Rural Communities
- Manchin, Ernst, Shaheen, Moran Reintroduce Bipartisan Bill to Make Rural, Underserved Telehealth Flexibilities Permanent
- Rural Health Clinics with 'Head-to-Toe and Womb-to-Tomb' Care
- Sen. Marshall Fights for Broadband Access in Rural Communities
- Why Health Care Is Harder to Access in Rural America
The Exploring Rural Health Podcast: Behavioral Health Has Been Released!
An episode of the Exploring Rural Health podcast featuring Holly Andrilla, Deputy Director of the FORHP-supported WWAMI Rural Health Research Center. Focuses on rural availability of psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, social workers, and counselors, as well as recent developments in access to medication for opioid use disorder.
RHCs & the Medicare Shared Savings Program – What You Need to Know
Recording of a March 7 webinar providing an overview of the transition to value-based care, Accountable Care Organizations, and the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Discusses considerations for Rural Health Clinic (RHC) participation in the Shared Savings Program.
A New Podcast Has Been Released, Rural Roads – The RCORPodcast
Get an inside look at the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) in this series of interviews with federal project officers (our own Kim Nesbitt in episode 2), grantees, and experts from the organization that provides technical assistance to community-based organizations in rural areas across the country.
Human Trafficking Summit: Episode 2
Human Trafficking Summit: Episode 1
Rural Health Leadership Radio: A Conversation with Lisa Davis
The global budget is underway in Pennsylvania, but there is a lot more than that taking place. In this episode of Rural Health Leadership Radio™ we are talking about Medicaid expansion, rural hospital budget transformation, medical student community orientation and other topics of interest to rural health leaders. We are having that conversation with Lisa Davis, Director of the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health and Outreach Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration at Penn State.
“Pennsylvania is considered to be one of the most rural states in the nation.”
In her role, Lisa is responsible for the overall direction and leadership of the state office of rural health, including ensuring that the office meets its mission of being a source of networking, coordination, and technical assistance to organizations focused on rural health care delivery; developing and sustaining linkages with state and national partners; and seeking ways to expand the office’s role in enhancing the health status of rural Pennsylvanians.
“Medicaid expansion has been very important here in the state for a number of reasons.”
On the national, state, and university levels, Davis serves on a wide range of boards of directors, advisory committees, and task forces focused on rural health policy, rural health research, economic development, outreach and education, and vulnerable populations and specific health issues such as oral health and cancer. She has extensive experience in the field of rural health research.
“They learned about what it means to be those individuals, what it means to live there, what the social structure is, what the economy is like in those communities.”
Davis is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health, an Outstanding Leadership Award from the Pennsylvania Rural Health Association, and an Award for Individual Contributions to Public Health from the Pennsylvania Public Health Association. The Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health received the Award of Merit from the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health.
She holds a graduate degree in Health Administration from Penn State.