Funding Opportunities
Discover the latest funding and opportunities to support rural health. Browse all funding opportunities.
Am I Rural?
Use the Am I Rural? Tool to find out if a location is considered rural based on various definitions of rural, including definitions that are used as eligibility criteria for federal programs.
Key Rural Health Issues
Learn about issues that impact rural health in RHIhub’s Topic Guides. Recently updated:
Community Health Gateway
Find rural project examples in Rural Health Models and Innovations and proven strategies for strong rural programs with toolkits like the Services Integration Toolkit in the Rural Community Health Gateway.
Finding Statistics & Data
Learn how to locate and use data in the Finding Statistics and Data Related to Rural Health topic guide and this chart of Data Sources & Tools Relevant to Rural Health.
Cybersecurity: How a Rural
Alaska Hospital is Safeguarding Its Patients’ Information
Due to barriers like cost and staffing, many rural healthcare facilities’ information
systems are susceptible to malware attacks such as ransomware. South Peninsula Hospital, a
Critical Access Hospital in Homer, Alaska, uses an IT staff of six to monitor threats and
train coworkers on how to safeguard their hospital’s information.
Top 10
Rural Monitor Articles of 2016
Articles on the opioid epidemic, new service delivery models, and a variety of innovative
approaches to support health all made it onto the year’s most-read list.
News Headlines
New in the Online Library
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report:
- Reducing Potentially Excess Deaths from the Five Leading Causes of Death in the Rural United States
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Leading Causes of Death in Nonmetropolitan and
Metropolitan Areas — United States,
1999–2014
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Catalog of Value-based Initiatives for Rural
Providers
Source: Rural Health Value
Resource and Referral Service
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