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NRHA's quarterly magazine, Rural Horizons, features articles carefully selected to engage and inform all those working to improve health care in rural America. It replaces NRHA's previous publication, the award-winning Rural Roads. Archives of both publications are available below.
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Rural Horizons Archive
2024 Issue 4
- Anything for a shot: Why we advocate for rural health access
- Starting rural parents on their breastfeeding journey
- Creating a clearer path to rural heart health
2024 Issue 3
- Helping community health workers care for older adults
- Blessed, fortunate, privileged: Paul Moore on rural leadership
- Leveraging telehealth to provide equitable pediatric mental health care
2024 Issue 2
- Mentorship: Solving gaps in care with shared wisdom
- Representing more rural veterans in research
- The role of medical education in addressing rural physician shortages
2024 Issue 1
2023 Issue 4
- A reason to care: How students choose rural health
- Focus on Fellows: Checking in with three rural leaders
- A prescription for better rural nutrition
2023 Issue 3
- Faces of Rural: Redefining who we are
- New NRHA initiative focuses on age-friendly care
- Making an impact: Bridging the gap in rural pediatric dentistry
- The power of rural health research
- Reimagining rural with NRHA President Leslie Marsh
- Karriem Watson dispels rural health research myths
Summer 2022
- Ensuring health equity for our rural LGBTQ+ neighbors
- NRHA’s new rural obesity and chronic disease partnership
- Building sustainable rural substance use disorder partnerships
Spring 2022
- Helping rural health care providers cope with pandemic stress
- Talking pandemic challenges and podcasts with NRHA President Beth O’Connor
- Exploring radical rural health flexibility
Winter 2022
Fall 2021
- The future of NRHA advocacy
- NRHA’s Rural Health Fellows: Where are they now?
- The COVID-19 pandemic: Where we stand now
Summer 2021
- ‘Not a drill’: COVID vaccination efforts boosted by pharmacists in training
- In rural oral health, equity starts with workforce diversity
- Rural resourcefulness: How communities are innovating in the face of COVID-19
- Building a rural integrated network for specialty care
- Health care's unique position in the response to human trafficking
- Experiencing COVID-19 as a doctor and patient
- Rural leaders build networks to source PPE for hospitals
- Mitigating the impact of COVID on rural families at risk for violence
- The benefits of being a rural nurse practitioner
- COVID-19 relief: No margin for error
- CDC on rural COVID-19 response
- Mental health in a pandemic
- NRHA’s Rural Health Clinic and Critical Access Hospital Conferences
- Chasing the horizon of rural telemedicine
- Rural mental health challenges and hope for the future
- Removing barriers to oral health access: A multilinked approach
- NRHA’s 43rd Annual Rural Health Conference
- Approaching the issue of rural social isolation
- Promoting a framework for age-friendly health systems
- Rural EMS: Critical services hang in the balance
- All of Us Research Program One year after launch
- Preparing nurse practitioners for rural practice
- Make sure you get counted in 2020
- WONCA World Rural Health Conference
- Searching for rural opioid crisis solutions
- Shifting addiction stigma in rural Oklahoma
- Treating 20,000 addicts in rural America
- Do these rural health issues look familiar?
- Your rural data resources: the people behind the numbers
- CDC as a rural resource: Q&A with Diane Hall
- Community health workers key to rural oral health
- NRHA comes to Atlanta
- Reimagining the role of physician assistants
- Planting seeds for the future of rural health
- Transforming rural communities through population health
- All of Us Research Program aims to enroll 1 million participants
- A community-based approach to rural health research
- A decade on the road: NRHA’s Brock Slabach on rural health
- Rural hospitals: The beating heart of a local economy
- Tracing new pathways to rural practice
- NRHA’s 2018 Rural Health Awards
- Expanding mental health support for rural veterans
- Ice cream, soda, and Rx
- Leveraging telebehavioral health services for rural veterans
- Revealing the scope of rural OB unit closures
- Total immersion: Rethinking the future of rural health and well-being
- Rural tech training, partnerships worth their weight in gold
- Rural PREP program does that and more for future docs
- Aspiring doc’s old-school outlook on rural health
- Dentist brings oral health best practices to rural community
- Training builds rural health workforce one student at a time
Rural Roads Archive
- Shining a light: Counteracting physician burnout
- Overweight but malnourished in rural America
- Get to know NRHA’s new president
- Childhood trauma tied to adverse health outcomes
- Gone country: Urban med student chooses rural practice
- Physician grows flower shop into rural health network
- NRHA honors rural health’s finest
- Rural hospital that almost closed twice now thriving
- Rural law enforcement learn mental health crisis skills
- A doctor’s take on rural hospital closures
- ‘They say coal mining gets in your blood’
- Providing care to veterans close to home
- Planting roots: Housing crisis threatens immigrant workers’ health
- Camp aims to recruit rural EMTs
- Reaching veterans through rural health networks
- Rural resourcefulness thrives in changing health care landscape
- New lease on life: Rural community wins fight to re-open hospital
- Natives care for neighbors after sexual assault
- Rural leader finds freedom on frontier
- Get to know NRHA’s new president
- Volunteer-run pregnancy support center beats the odds
- Greenhouse nurtures confidence in psych patients
- Walking 283 miles to save rural hospitals
- How rural rivals created an award-winning partnership
- Going the distance: Geography often biggest obstacle to rural care
- Small-town HIV outbreak a public health crisis
- NRHA honors rural health’s finest
- Researchers tackle rural childhood obesity
- School-based telemedicine brings docs to students
- How a rural county pioneered population health
- Network helps rural seniors age in place
- Connecting rural veterans to specialists
- Recent grads open revolutionary rural clinic
- Providing relief in a health care desert
- Rural scholars return home to practice
- Urban students gain rural experience
- Home on the range
- Hospital initiative advances prenatal care
- A rural county gets growing
- Telehealth on the rise in rural
- Advocates respond to shrinking rural representation
- Over the river and through the woods
- Remote remedies connect Alaskans to care
- 500 physicians matched in 35 years
- NRHA honors rural health’s finest
- Like doctor, like daughter
- Taking root: Volunteers dig in to feed hospital patients
- Ranger credits rural blood donors with saving his life after gunfight
- Small-town clinic grows with medical home model
- Rural doctors focus on quality
- Sky blue pink: A picture is worth a thousand pills
- Tribal trust: Native American veterans help peers get care
- Partnership matches doctors with rural practices
- Understanding the Affordable Care Act in rural America
- Rural hospital saves a baby, has a cow
- Dr. Rhodes hits the road to help patients
- A 20-something’s skin cancer diagnosis
- Oklahoma hospitals respond when tornadoes hit
- Tales of a country doc
- Physician, professor uses storytelling to engage students
- Focus on rural mental health
- Telehealth barriers, benefits
- Rural hospital plays vital role when disaster strikes
- Black lung is back: Coal miners can’t catch a breath or a break
- 40 years of rural recruitment
- Rural Lens results
- 6 reasons to race to Louisville
- One family takes texting tragedy on the road
- School shooting forever changes young doctor
- Staff give back to hospitals where they were born
- Mother-daughter program aims to prevent STDs
- The friendliest skies: Aviator angels transport rural patients
- Dental student brings awareness to hometown school
- Rethinking design and culture at small hospitals
- Family emergency introduces first-year doc to rural support system
- Message sent: One family takes texting tragedy on the road
- School shooting forever changes young doctor
- Staff give back to hospitals where they were born
- Mother-daughter program aims to prevent STDs
- When home is the most dangerous place
- Missouri nonprofits provide shelter and hope for rural victims of abuse
- Rural food deserts leave residents hungry for nutritious options
- White House Rural Council’s health priorities explained
- NRHA shows doctor-to-be real scope of rural practice
- Pedal to the mettle: Med students bike across Oregon
- Looking back on 30 years of rural HIV/AIDS
- Small-town med school trains small-town doctors
- Rural EMTs practice with mannequins that bleed
- Remote town recruits mission-focused doctor
- Rival hospitals team up
- On the line: Veterans’ crisis hotline saves lives
- Identifying LGBT health care disparities, opportunities
- Montana bucks trend: Campaign reduces meth use
- Lights, camera, rural Alabama
- Remembering Rosemary
- Teen donates children’s books to hospitals
- All smiles: Dental therapists take care home
- Hospital donation helps college train nurses
- Border health advocates share experiences
- Delivery comes full circle for rural med student
- Amish outreach: Cancer project brings awareness
- Mobile clinics deliver care to rural communities
- Gulf residents struggle with uncertain future
- South Dakota hospital connects specialists to small towns
- Hope for Haiti: Volunteers bring healing
- Tornado turns Kansas hospital green
- Doctor nurtures rural roots
- Smoking ban reduces heart attacks
- On a mission: Pharmacists serve remote Alaska island
- Wellness is contagious at rural hospitals
- HPV programs promote prevention
- Telemedicine brings veterans’ mental health care closer to home
- The beat goes on: Heart health in rural America
- Hospitals prepare for pandemic
- Connecting parents to school nurse office
- Mental help for teens
- Monkey do: Unique service animals lend a hand
- Robo docs diagnose from a distance
- Cancer changes doctor’s perspective
- Telemedicine treats diabetic American Indians
- Eat your veggies: Farmers’ markets enrich health and community
- Married docs serve remote Alaskan island
- Texting keeps clinic in touch
- Redwoods at root of telehealth center
- Weathering the storm
- Small hospitals resilient to natural disaster
- Project pipeline
- Employee satisfaction off the charts
- Telemedicine connects rural New Mexico
- Relocation, recruitment, retention
- International doctors serve rural America
- Making harm history
- Rural midwives deliver
- Coffee shop nurse perks up community
- A fighting chance: War zone health
- Real tooth fairies
- The rural race to the White House
- Mountains, moose and mammograms
- Patient praises cardiac partnership
- Rural recruitment and retention
- Collaboration addresses children’s mental health
- NRHA volunteers rebuild homes
- 21st century house calls
- Mental health care for HIV patients
- The workforce pipeline
- Gender gap in substance abuse treatment