Area Health Education Centers Doing AHEC of a Job: Inspiring, Training, Housing Medical Professionals in Underserved Areas
by Candi Helseth
Three AHECs—in New York, Hawaii and Georgia—are among those across the nation that work to recruit, train and retain medical professionals.

Challenges for Human Services
by Kathy Miller
New Data for Understanding Rural America: The American Community Survey
The ACS is a potential information goldmine, but its five-year data averaging for rural areas presents challenges and limitations.

Look What’s Coming
by Wayne Myers, M.D.
Ending Dentistry by Grandpa
Argues that licensing dental therapists may be the only way to get dental care to Medicaid patients and other underserved populations.

Around the Country
by Candi Helseth
The Struggle to Provide HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment in Rural Areas
As AIDS cases continue to rise in the rural United States, organizations reach out to patients and those at-risk.

Rural Spotlight
An Interview with Charles Alfero
by Beth Blevins
The CEO of Hidalgo Medical Services and director of the National Center for Frontier Communities discusses life and work in the New Mexico frontier.