The Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program awards will create new residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, preventive medicine, psychiatry, and general surgery, helping to strengthen the health workforce in rural and tribal communities.
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With 18% of healthcare workers having left their jobs and another 12% being laid off, what are the solutions for healthcare as a whole? You can’t open a paper, magazine, or watch news and not hear about the crisis that has evolved. This is our Talent Tuesday Workforce edition.
Can the RHT initiative turn the deepening decline of rural healthcare around? Who will take on the challenges to not just spend the $50B but change the rural healthcare landscape? In the news this month is Ovatient, eClinicalWorks, HRSA, WebMD Ignite, BPC, AmeriTrust Solutions, and AscendRural.
Expanding nutrition services and strengthening the rural workforce will improve access to care, enhance preventive services, and reduce the burden of chronic disease.
Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include DirectTrust, Connexall, DarioHealth, LifeStance, Interstate Health, Carenet Health, Shearwater Health, Knack RCM, Real Chemistry, CareSource Foundation, Healthcare IT Leaders, Volara Health, TechPoint, Eli Lilly, MGMA, Point-of-Care Partners, Pfizer, HRSA, Cigna Healthcare, & Evidently.
HRSA announced nearly $75 million to support health care services in rural America. Funding will launch new opioid treatment and recovery services in rural communities, strengthen maternal health care in the South, and help rural hospitals stay open.
Funding will expand the number of nurses and primary care physicians, promote behavioral health integration into pediatric care, and support behavioral health needs of children in families impacted by the opioid crisis.
Marking National Health Center Week, HHS, through the Health Resources and Services Administration released new data showing over 31 million total patients served at HRSA-funded health centers in 2023—an increase of 2.7 million since 2020.
New investments will make it easier for social workers to practice across state lines, increase behavioral health access, and better facilitate telehealth services; Funding builds on HRSA’s work to support licensure compacts to improve access to primary care and psychology.