Information Sessions

If you were not able to attend an information session or need a refresher, take a look at these slides and the recording for more details about the event.

General Overviews

• Rural Health Needs in America: Challenges & Solutions (NIHCM Foundation)

• Health Care Access in Rural Communities (Rural Health Information Hub)

• What’s Health Care Like in Rural America? (American Heart Association)

• Unlocking Rural America’s Potential (McKinsey) 

Specific Rural Health Topics

• Rural Workforce Recruitment and Retention Factors (National Rural Health Association)

• Barriers to Telehealth in Rural Settings (Rural Health Information Hub)

• Greatest Economic and Social Needs of Rural Older Adults (National Rural Health Association)

• When Medicaid Disappears: How Cuts Could Devastate Behavioral Health Care in Rural America (American Hospital Association)

• Rural Hunger (Food Research and Action Center)

• Aging in Rural California (Scan Foundation) 

Rural Health Transformation Program + Other Policies

• Rural Health Transformation Program (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)

• State Applications to the Rural Health Transformation Program (State Health and Value Strategies)

• Key Takeaways from CMS’s Rural Health Funding Announcement (KFF)

• Federal, State, and Stakeholder Perspectives on the Rural Health Transformation Fund (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials)

• How is the Federal Funding Landscape Affecting Rural Health? (Interview with Prof. Kimberly MacPherson)

• Opportunities to Leverage the Rural Health Transformation Program to Redefine Rural Care (ATI Advisory) 

Innovation

• Caring for Rural America with Jennifer Schneider (podcast episode with Homeward CEO)

• Why Rural Health Care is America’s Next Big Breakthrough (podcast episode with Lynn Barr)

• The $50B Rural Health Opportunity Every Startup Should Know About (Forum Ventures)

• Applying AI to Rural Health (Exploring Rural Health)

• Rural Hospitals Can Align Financial Incentives and Population Health Under Alternative Payment Methods (Mathematica)

• Examples of Medicaid Innovation Enhancing Health Care Access in Rural America (National Association of Medicaid Directors)