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NRHA Archived Policy Documents
If you have any questions about any of these papers or if you are an NRHA member and would like to revisit/update any of these papers, please contact NRHA's advocacy team.
The advocacy documents listed below were originally developed by NRHA's Government Affairs team:
2019 NRHA advocacy materials
2018 NRHA advocacy materials
- FY18 Government Affairs Report
- FY18 Government Affairs Report one-pager
- Save Rural Hospitals Act sponsor request
- 2018 Rural hospital closures infographic
2012 NRHA Policy Papers
- Broadband Access in Rural America, September 2012
- Definition of Primary Care, January 2012
- Electronic Health Record Implementation and Meaningful Use Adoption in Rural Hospitals and Physician Clinics, January 2012
- Health Care Workforce Distribution and Shortage Issues in Rural America, January 2012
- Medicaid Reform: A Rural Perspective, September 2012
- Principles for Community Paramedicine Programs, September 2012
- Professional Liability Reform, September 2012
- Public Reporting of Hospital Quality in Rural Communities: An Initial Set of Key Issues, January 2012
2011 NRHA Policy Papers
- Deleterious Impacts on Rural Multiracial and Multicultural Populations Related to the Devolution of Welfare Programs, April 2011
- Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) and Telehealth in Critical Access Hospitals, May 2011
- Food and Nutrition, January 2011
- Geographic Restrictions for Medicare Telehealth Reimbursement, May 2011
- Public Health Nursing: Strengthening the Core of Rural Public Health, January 2011
- Rural Health Preparedness, April 2011
2010 NRHA Policy Papers
- Addressing the Health Care Needs in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region, January 2010
- Telemedicine Credentialing, May 2010
- Telemedicine Reimbursement, May 2010
2009 NRHA Policy Papers
- Pharmacy, May 2009
- Under-Insurance among Farm and Ranch Families and Other Small Business People Undermines Benefits of Insurance Coverage, October 2009
Recruitment and Retention of a Quality Health Workforce in Rural Areas
A series of policy papers on the Rural Health Careers Pipeline
Introduction: Defining the Issues and the Principles of Recruitment and Retention, January 2012
- Number 1: Physicians, November 2006
- Number 2: Nursing, December 2005
- Number 3: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, May 2006
- Number 4: Oral Health, November 2006
- Number 5: Behavioral Health, October 2008
- Number 6: Rural Public Health, April 2007
- Number 7: Rural Health Careers Pipeline: Kindergarten to 12th Grade Education, February 2006
- Number 8: Primary Eye Care, October 2009
- Number 9: Hospital Administration, May 2007
- Number 10: Allied Health, October 2008
- Number 11: Physician Assistants, October 2008
- Number 12: Emergency Medical Services, November 2005
- Number 13: Issues of Preserving Rural Professional Quality of Life, May 2006
Pre-2009 Policy Papers (alpha)
- Access to Automatic External Defibrillation, February 2003
- Access to Health Care for the Uninsured in Rural and Frontier America, May 1999
- American Indian and Alaska Native Health, November 2006
- Antitrust and Rural Health, May 1996
- Community Health Advisor Programs, November 2000
- Comprehensive Quality Improvement in Rural Health Care, October 2007
- Dental Health Professionals in Alaska Rural Communities, June 2006
- Designation of Frontier Health Professional Shortage Areas, October 2007
- Emergency Medical Services, Paper #13 to the , November 2005
- Facilitating the Use of National Surveys in Rural Health Research, May 1998
- Farm Bill Reauthorization: Implications for the Health of Rural Communities, November 2006
- Federal Medicaid Reform: A Rural Perspective, May 2007; April 2004; May 2003
- Frontier Definition, October 2008
- Funding of Graduate Medical Education, February 1998
- Graduate Medical Education for Rural Practice, May 2008
- Health Insurance Access in Rural America, March 2004
- Health Home, October 2008
- HIV/AIDS in Rural America: Disproportionate Impact on Minority and Multicultural Populations, July 2004 (update of the HIV/AIDS in Rural America policy paper from November 1997)
- Impact of Entitlement Programs on Rural Health, May 1995
- Inclusion of Primary Eye Care Services in the National Health Service Corps, October 2007
- Long-Term Care in Rural America, May 2001
- Medicare Advantage for Rural America?, February 2007
- Meeting Oral Health Care Needs in Rural America, April 2005
- Mental Health in Rural America, May 1999
- National Agenda for Rural Minority Health, May 1999
- National Agenda for Rural Minority Health: Recruitment and Training of Health Professionals, April 2001
- National Agenda for Rural Minority Health: The Need for Responsive Rural Health Delivery Systems, July 2001
- National Agenda for Rural Minority Health: The Need for Standardized Data and Information Systems, April 2001
- National Health Policy Reform: The Rural Perspective, September 1992
- Niche (Limited-Service) Hospital Providers, May 2005
- Nursing, Paper #2, to "The Rural Health Careers Pipeline" series, December 2005
- Primary Eye Care in Rural America, October 2007
- Professional Liability Reform, April 2003
- Public Safety Officer Benefit to Include Ambulance and Air Medical Crews, January 2008
- Quality of Rural Health Care, December 2003
- Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, May 2006
- Reforming the Universal Service Fund, May 2003
- Responsive Rural Health Delivery System, October 2008
- Role of Telemedicine in Rural Health Care, February 1998
- Rural America's Health Care Safety Net Providers, March 2002
- Rural and Frontier Emergency Medical Services Toward the Year 2000, May 1997
- Rural Economic Development, May 2009
- Rural/Frontier Women's Access to Health Services, November 2005
- Rural Graduate Medical Education, June 2003
- Rural Health Clinics, November 2006
- Rural Health Clinics in Rural America, February 1997
- Rural Health Information Technology, February 2006
- Rural Health Preparedness, January 2002
- Rural Health Professions, January 2004
- Rural Physician Recruitment and Retention, November 1998
- Rural Public Health, June 2004
- Rural Veterans: A Special Concern for Rural Health Advocates, February 2007; February 2004
- Strengthening the Role of International Medical Graduates in Providing Access to Health Care for Rural America, March 2003
- Vision for Health Reform Models for America's Rural Communities
- Principles for Community Paramedicine Programs, February 1998