Publications & Maps
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.
E-mail Updates
RAC Updates keep you informed of the latest
rural news, funding opportunities, publications and events. The
Health Update is sent out twice a month with links to resources
on rural health issues. The Human Services Update comes out monthly
with links to resources focused on rural human services. The Rural
Monitor Update 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:
Comparison of Rural Hospitals with Special Medicare Payment Provisions to Urban and Rural Hospitals Paid Under Prospective Payment (Final Report)
Author(s): G. Mark Holmes, George H. Pink, Sarah A. Friedman, Hilda A. Howard
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
Compares the financial performance and condition of rural hospitals with special Medicare payment provisions to urban and rural hospitals paid under prospective payment (UPPS and R-PPS hospitals, respectively).
Date: 08 / 2010
Future of Family Medicine and Implications for Rural Primary Care Physician Supply (Final Report)
Author(s): Roger A. Rosenblatt, Frederick M. Chen, Denise M. Lishner, Mark P. Doescher
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Examines the rural physician shortage, the effect of recent trends in specialty choice on provider supply, and major trends that are changing the dynamics that shape the delivery of health care.
Date: 08 / 2010
Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Initiative: Implications for Rural Physicians (Final Report)
Author(s): Alycia Infante, Michael Meit, Elizabeth Hargrave
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
Discusses the impact of rurality on office-based physicians' participation in the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), a voluntary pay-for-reporting program in Medicare.
Date: 08 / 2010
Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Initiative: Implications for Rural Physicians (Policy Brief)
Author(s): Alycia Infante, Michael Meit, Elizabeth Hargrave
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
Rural practices may be at a disadvantage with
respect to participating in the Physician Quality
Reporting Initiative (PQRI), not necessarily
because of their geographic location, but because
they tend to be smaller, and have fewer resources
and a less developed quality measurement infrastructure.
Date: 08 / 2010
National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human Services Meeting Minutes, Charleston, South Carolina, June 14-16, 2010
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
Minutes from the NACRHHS, which provides recommendations on rural health and human services issues to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Meeting included the following topics: childhood obesity, Early Head Start programs, and rural implications of payment bundling and accountable care organizations.
Date: 06 / 2010
Rural Medicare Advantage: Modest Enrollment Growth in 2010
Author(s): Leah Kemper, Timothy D. McBride, Keith Mueller
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Reports that despite a slight drop in enrollment and a dramatic shift in the landscape of the rural Medicare Advantage (MA) market in early 2010, MA plans have experienced modest growth in enrollment in rural areas over the last two quarters of 2010. The majority of the growth is concentrated in preferred provider organization plans, counteracting a decline in private fee-for-service plan enrollment.
Date: 08 / 2010
Use of Emergency Departments for Conditions Related to Poor Oral Health Care
Author(s): Emily F. Shortridge, Jonathan R. Moore
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
Persistent and worsening shortages of oral health care providers in rural areas, combined with limited acceptance of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), have left many patients without adequate access to dental care.
Date: 08 / 2010
Document Search
The RAC Document Search provides access to 5491 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.
