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Expanding the Care Team: Leveraging a Broad Workforce to Improve Health Care in Kansas
Discusses challenges facing the healthcare landscape in Kansas, such as hospital closures and healthcare workforce shortages, and how expanding healthcare teams to include professions like community paramedics and community health workers can help alleviate these challenges. Includes data on demographics of the Kansas population and related hospital closures that impact rural areas in particular.
Author(s): Valentina Blanchard, Wyatt J. Beckman, Linda J. Sheppard
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Health Institute
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Selected Rural Healthcare Facilities in Kansas
Shows the state's Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), as well as Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) sites and short term/PPS (Prospective Payment System) hospitals located in rural areas.
Date: 01/2024
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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2022 Health Professional Underserved Areas Report: Kansas Primary Care and Rural Health
Features information on Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) in Kansas. Discusses healthcare workforce recruitment and retention as well as rural hospital programs during 2022. Provides county-level data and maps on Primary Care, Mental, and Dental HPSAs. Includes a table classifying counties as urban, semi-urban, densely-settled rural, rural, or frontier.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Assessing Social Needs and Engaging Community Health Workers in Underserved Kansas Counties: Insights From Primary Care Providers and Clinic Managers
Details a study exploring how rural and underserved urban communities in Kansas are screening for social determinants of health and using community health workers to address challenges. Bases findings on surveys of providers and clinic managers.
Author(s): Kristina M. Bridges, Joseph W. LeMaster, Daniel J. Parente, et al
Citation: Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, 14
Date: 12/2023
Type: Document
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Kansas Annual Summary of Vital Statistics, 2022
Provides comprehensive data on vital events, population demographics, fertility and live births, mortality, and marriages in Kansas in 2022. Includes data breakdowns according to county and frontier, rural, densely-settled rural, semi-urban, or urban location.
Author(s): David Oakley, Christina Smith, Cathryn Savage, et al.
Date: 12/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Kansas Marketplace Enrollment, 2023
An infographic that depicts enrollment in the health insurance marketplace at the county level as well as cost of monthly marketplace premiums.
Date: 11/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Health Institute
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FY 2023: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Kansas Fact Sheet
HRSA Federal Office of Rural Health Policy investments in Kansas in Fiscal Year 2023. Lists grant and cooperative agreement recipients, award amounts, award recipient locations, and congressional district.
Date: 11/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
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Kansas State Loan Repayment Program (SLRP) for Provider Recruitment and Retention
Provides an overview of the student loan repayment program (SLRP) with information on the funding cycle, eligible provider types, and number of awards available. Includes guidance on SLRP application and compensation as well as resources from the Kansas Office of Primary Care and Rural Health.
Additional links: Slide Deck
Date: 08/2023
Type: Video/Multimedia
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Kansas Governor Designated Medically Underserved Areas
Listing of Governor Designated Medically Underserved Areas in the state of Kansas for the purpose of Rural Health Clinic (RHC) certification.
Date: 08/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Office of Primary Care & Rural Health
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Partnering with the Kansas Center for Rural Health
A recorded webinar that presents information on the services and programs provided by the Kansas Center for Rural Health, such as loan repayment programs, Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) maps and tools, information on rural health disparities, and organizational goals, strategies, and collaborations.
Additional links: Slide Deck
Date: 07/2023
Type: Video/Multimedia
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Last Updated: 3/28/2024