New Resources
Highlights the VA's nurse-led Collaborative System of Care (CSC) program's work in connecting veterans at rural Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to the VA's behavioral health services and discusses the role care coordination can play in connecting rural veterans to other healthcare services. Details the efficacy of the CSC program and outlines the program's structure and screening process.
Author(s): M. Bryant Howren, Debra Kazmerzak, Sheryl Pruin, et al.
Location: Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 49, 50-60
Date: 05/2022
Fact sheet highlighting barriers to broadband access for rural and underserved communities, addressing infrastructure and affordability issues. Describes policy efforts to increase access through investments to expand broadband adoption.
Sponsoring organizations: AARP, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Date: 04/2022
Fact sheet describing challenges to broadband availability and local efforts to provide short-term solutions. Discusses funding and strategies to expand broadband at the local and national levels.
Sponsoring organizations: AARP, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Date: 04/2022
Evaluates the first four years of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Million Hearts Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model to determine whether, and how, it reduces first-time strokes, heart attacks, and Medicare spending. Covers participant characteristics, including rural or urban status and organization type; implementation of the model; changes in cardiovascular disease risk scores among high-risk beneficiaries; intermediate- and long-term impacts on beneficiaries; and the relevance of these findings to other research on cardiovascular disease prevention.
Sponsoring organizations: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Mathematica
Date: 02/2022
Examines the prevalence of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy among delivery hospitalizations. Includes data for metropolitan, micropolitan, and rural (nonmetro/nonmicro) counties on prevalence of any hypertension, chronic hypertension, pregnancy-related hypertension, and unspecified maternal hypertension.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Location: MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report), 71(17), 585–591
Date: 04/2022
Presents an overview of key findings from interviews with stakeholders in eight states - Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming - regarding the rural healthcare landscape. Discusses rural hospital financial health, rural hospital transformation models, challenges facing the rural healthcare workforce, and the role of telehealth in increasing access to care. Provides recommendations aimed at further advancing the use of virtual care in all communities, including rural and frontier areas, beyond the temporary federal COVID-19 public health emergency flexibilities.
Sponsoring organization: Bipartisan Policy Center
Date: 05/2022
Summarizes findings from research funded by the Administration for Community Living's National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) on the experiences of people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlights research on rural communities and telehealth.
Sponsoring organization: Administration for Community Living
Date: 04/2022
Describes hospital and outpatient clinician healthcare workforce shortages and maldistribution both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of the pandemic on the mental and physical health of the workforce. Provides an overview of federal interventions to support the healthcare workforce during the pandemic. Includes discussion on challenges specific to rural communities.
Sponsoring organization: HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Date: 05/2022
Examine how Medicare enrollees' use of inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) services and the characteristics of IPFs have changed since the introduction of the IPF-PPS in 2005. Explores whether there have been changes in events that occur before or after IPF stays that may indicate potential changes in the quality of services. Includes information on per diem costs for rural IPFs compared to urban facilities.
Sponsoring organizations: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Urban Institute
Date: 04/2022
Report details the need for access to child care for American Indian and Alaska Native parents in tribal communities. Aims to assess the current levels of access, quality of services, and eligibility requirements of current tribal child care services, among other measures. Discusses interventions that could improve access to child care in tribal communities.
Sponsoring organization: Bipartisan Policy Center
Date: 04/2022
National data on fatal and nonfatal traffic crashes involving commercial and noncommercial trucks weighing more than 10,000 pounds. Features statistics from 2011-2020 with breakdowns by involvement rate per 100,000 registered trucks, crash characteristics, estimated proportion of alcohol-impaired drivers, previous 5-year driving records of drivers in fatal crashes, time of day and week, state, and rural or urban location.
Sponsoring organization: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Date: 04/2022
Presents results of a poll conducted between February 1-February 22, 2022, among a sample of 1806 rural adults, 475 rural parents, and 220 rural teens regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. Covers beliefs about vaccination, COVID-19 vaccination status, vaccination motivating factors and barriers, and post-vaccination behaviors.
Sponsoring organizations: Morning Consult, National Rural Health Association
Date: 03/2022
Examines the outcome management strategies of four of the Flex Program's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Supplemental funding grant recipients. Describes the outcome measures selected, the timing of those measures, and data sources used to support their outcome measures. Identifies strengths and challenges to the outcome management strategies and offers recommendations to refine these strategies.
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
Date: 04/2022
