The Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program Directory for 2021-2025 Released

Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program Directory, 2021-2025.  Now available on the Rural Health Information Hub, the directory provides contact information and a brief overview for each of the federal program’s 61 currently funded initiatives.  This includes 45 initiatives working to address a wide variety of rural healthcare needs through funding under the program’s general outreach track, and 16 initiatives funded under the program’s Healthy Rural Hometown Initiative (HRHI) track focusing on efforts to improve health outcomes and reduce rural health disparities related to the five leading causes of avoidable death for people living in rural areas: heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke.