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The Rural Monitor

The Rural Monitor is the quarterly newsletter of the Rural Assistance Center. Each issue provides articles on a variety of rural health and human services issues.

Listservs

The RAC Listservs provide regular updates on rural news, funding opportunities, publications and events. The RAC Health listserv is sent out twice a month with links to resources on rural health issues. The Human Services listserv comes out monthly with links to resources focused on rural human services. The Rural Monitor listserv comes out quarterly with the latest issue of the Rural Monitor newsletter.

Maps

The RAC Maps section provides national maps on a variety of rural health and human services topics. Maps can be customized to focus on a specified state or county and to show additional labels, boundaries and data, for use in grant applications, reports and other publications.

Information Guides

RAC's Information Guides bring together relevant information on rural issues and topics, pulled from the News, Funding and Events sections of the RAC web site, as well as links to useful publications, organizations and web sites. Some guides include in-depth information, such as frequently asked questions and contacts for more assistance.

Federal Register News

RAC's Federal Register News provides summaries of rural-relevant Federal Register notices from the past 120 days, with links to the Federal Register for the complete notice.

Publications

RAC collects and facilitates access to documents, journals and other publications from many sources, including these:

Key publications identified in the past 30 days:

Beyond Health Care: The Economic Contribution of Hospitals
Sponsoring organization: American Hospital Association
Discusses economic impact of hospitals to communities, including rural communities.
Date: 04 / 2008

Prevalence of Evidence-Based Safe Medication Practices in Small Rural Hospitals
Author(s): Gary Cochran, Katherine Jones, Liyan Xu, Keith Mueller
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Describes the prevalence of evidence-based safe medication practices, including the use of voluntary medication error reporting, in small rural hospitals.
Date: 04 / 2008

Document Search

The RAC Document Search provides access to 4638 documents, including rural health research center reports, rural health association newsletters, newsletters from state offices of rural health, and a variety of human services publications. New documents are added daily.