- The
Rural Information Center (RIC)
Provides information and referral services to local, state, and federal
government officials; community organizations; health professionals and
organizations; rural electric and telephone cooperatives; libraries; businesses; and rural citizens working to maintain the vitality of
America's rural areas.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ruralres/resource.htm
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ruralres/aboutric.htm
[A national clearinghouse for
collecting and disseminating information on rural health issues, research
findings related to rural health, and innovative approaches to the
delivery of rural health care services.]
·
The
Rural Information Center Health Service (RICHS) is a joint project of
the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP), Department of Health and Human
Services, and the National Agricultural Library (NAL), United States
Department of Agriculture. Operating
as part of NAL's Rural Information Center (RIC), RICHS collects and
disseminates information on rural health issues. RICHS provides free
customized assistance such as performing database searches on rural health
topics and funding resources, referring users to organizations or
individuals for additional information, furnishing selected publications,
and posting a wide variety of timely information on the Internet (funding
resources, conference announcements, bibliographies, directories, and
full-text documents).
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/richs/
-
Economic and Rural
Development Resources: (RICHS)
A rural health information
clearinghouse known as the Rural Information Center Health Service (RICHS)
providing current sources of information for publications, organizations,
research, funding and Internet links by subject.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ruralres/economic.htm
- Rural Hospital
Information Resources
A
VALUABLE site offering publications, organizations, and funding on
rural health. These publications are available online or can be
ordered from the distribution center.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/richs/hospital.htm
- Federal Office of Rural
Health Policy guide
The
Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) promotes better health care
service in rural America. The Office works both within government at
federal, state and local levels, and with the private sector -- with
associations, foundations, providers and community leaders to seek
solutions to rural health care problems. It includes the following
sites:
http://www.nal.usda.gov/orhp/
[Publications
with ordering information or with links to full text.]
http://www.nal.usda.gov/orhp/pubs.htm
[Publications on the Web from HRSA.]
http://www.muskie.usm.maine.edu/mrhrc/d_indexMRHRC.html
[Rural Health News Publication with informative articles on rural
health topics.]
http://www.nal.usda.gov/orhp/chip2.htm
[Reasons why rural health is important on enrolling rural children in CHIP and Medicaid.]
http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs
/rural_program/phy.html
[Facts about Rural Physicians]
http://www.nal.usda.gov/orhp/policy.htm
[Policy helps shape rural health by advising the Secretary of Health and Human Services on major issues such as the effects of Medicare and Medicaid on rural citizens' access to health care.]
- The National Advisory
Committee (NAC)
on Rural Health
Advises the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
on the provision and financing of health care services in rural areas.
Who is it?
The Committee is made up of rural physicians, nurses, educators,
researchers, hospital and clinic administrators, and policy experts. The
Chair of the Committee is former Iowa Governor Bob Ray. The Committee was
established in 1987 at the same time as the Federal Office of Rural Health
Policy and serves as a voice within the Department for rural health.
What does it do?
The Committee studies and makes recommendations on issues affecting health
care in rural areas such as shortages of health care providers, limited
access to health care services and the financial viability of struggling
rural health care systems.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/orh
- Capital assistance
funding:
A Rural Health Resource Guide: This guide is designed to help
hospitals, clinics, community health centers, and other rural health
providers learn more about various funding options to meet their
capital needs. It is not intended to be comprehensive, but to
represent examples of federal grants, direct loans and loan guarantee
programs, foundation funding and other resources that may be potential
sources of capital support.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/richspub/capasist.htm
- Rural Policy Research
Institute.
RUPRI is a very detailed site that utilizes an
inter-disciplinary approach to facilitate understanding of the rural
impacts of public policies and to provide decision support to rural
residents.
http://www.rupri.org/
- HRSA's Office of Rural
Health Policy
Works within the DHHS and with other Federal agencies, States,
national associations, foundations, and private-sector organizations
to seek solutions to health care problems in rural communities. It
also assists the Secretary in developing rural health finance policy.
In particular, the office advises the Secretary on how the Medicare
and Medicaid programs affect access to health care for rural
populations.
http://www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/xrural.htm
· THA – Texas Hospital Association
Texas Hospital Association
offers educational programs for health care professionals, and is a
resource for patient and financial data on Texas hospitals.
THA's mission is to provide
leadership in advocacy, information and education to enable hospitals and
integrated health care systems to deliver superior, cost-effective,
health-care, which enhances individuals and their communities.
http://www.thaonline.org/aboutTHA/thapubhome.html
· AHA – American Hospital Association
The American Hospital
Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves
all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and
communities.
http://www.aha.org/default.asp
- Health Law and Policy
Institute
Use the Health Law Perspectives Search
Engine to search Health
Law Perspectives for articles on specific topics of interest. The
Health Law and Policy Institute is widely regarded as one of the top
health law programs in the country.
http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/
- National Health Law
Program
The
National Health Law Program is a national public interest law firm
that seeks to improve health care for America's working and unemployed
poor, minorities, the elderly and people with disabilities. NHeLP
serves legal services programs, community-based organizations, the
private bar, providers and individuals who work to preserve a health
care safety net for the millions of uninsured or underinsured
low-income people.
http://www.healthlaw.org
·
Texas Institute for Health Policy Research
Executive Summary: “How Will We Pay For Health Care?”
http://www.healthpolicyinstitute.org/
1999SympSum/SympSummary.htm
- The National Network for
Health
A cooperative State Research Education and extension system helping
rural America face crisis with valuable informative web sites.
Offering comprehensive definitions and explanations about health
issues.
http://www.nnh.org
- National Rural Network
Promotes communication and cooperation between non-governmental
organizations for Rural America.
The NRN is a group non-governmental organization that are rural
stakeholders who can provide policy-makers and the public with the
full breadth of the issues that compose the new rural reality in
America.
http://www.nationalruralnetwork.org/
- Journal of Rural Health:
a quarterly journal published by the NRHA, offers original research
encompassing evaluations of model and demonstration projects to
improve rural health, statistical comparisons of rural and urban
differences, and mathematical models examining the use of health care
services by rural residents. Summaries
of recently published rural health research discuss the objectives,
geographical focus, database, and methods and outcomes of the research
to improve rural health.
http://www.nrharural.org/pagefile/rh.html
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