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Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Farm Families in Times of Economic Distress. Given recent global economic and climate trends, including those induced by the
RUPRI Health Panel Provided Comments to CMS-4192-P: Medicare Program; Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
This document updates the RUPRI Health Panel’s framework for a high-performing rural health care system, originally published in 2011. It offers a revised vision statement
“Use infrastructure dollars to support our democracy”, a recent commentary in The Hill newspaper, featured the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX) as an example of a
Chuck Fluharty, RUPRI Founder and President Emeritus, joined the Federation of State Humanities Council to discuss the future of rural communities through a public humanities
On October 18 during the morning news program, Washington Journal on C-Span, Keith Mueller & Fred Ullrich discussed research from the RUPRI Center for Rural
Dr. Keith Mueller presented “Delivery of Healthcare in Rural America” to the Dakota Wesleyan University on September 28, 2021. View Presentation
The Panel is pleased to comment in response to the proposed rule for Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) program and the Request for
Read comment letter here.
The RUPRI Population and Place Analytics Panel and the RUPRI Health Panel jointly provided comments to the Census Bureau on the proposed definition of Urban