The RUPRI Rural Health Panel, National Rural Health Association, and West Health are proud to announce a Roadmap for the Future of Rural Health. This roadmap highlights key outcomes from the Future of Rural Health Summit held in November 2024. The Summit report envisions rural communities where health care integrates with public services, local economies, …
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Keith Mueller presented Securing a Better Future for Rural Health at the NRHA Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The session presented findings from the 2024 Future of Rural Health Summit held by RUPRI, NRHA & West Health. Please view the presentation here
RUPRI Graduate Students are highlighted in the latest edition of Iowa Now, the newsletter of the College of Public Health, for their efforts to create a Student Association for Rural Health. Read the Article Here
RUPRI’s Director, Keith Mueller, testified at a hearing on rural health by the United States Senate Committee on Finance on May 16. The hearing Rural Health Care: Supporting Lives and Improving Communities can be viewed HERE. Dr. Mueller’s Written Testimony and Oral Testimony are now available. WRITTEN TESTIMONY ORAL TESTIMONY
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) awarded the Louis Gorin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Rural Health Care to RUPRI Director Keith Mueller. In announcing the award, NRHA praised Dr. Mueller with the following statement: “Throughout his 40-year career, he has advanced rural health through expert nonpartisan policy analysis, national presentations and testimony, and the …
The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human Services (NACRHHS) has released a new policy brief, Childcare Need & Availability in Rural Areas. The NACRHHS advises the Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services on health & human service challenges in rural America. The Committee members offer the following policy recommendations for …
Research on Nonmetropolitan COVID-19 Cases & Death Rates from the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis was featured in a December 14, 2022 Scientific American® article on mortality rates in rural. The article, People in Rural Areas Die at Higher Rates Than Those in Urban Areas by Tanya Lewis, highlights RUPRI’s ongoing COVID tracking …
The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human Services (NACRHHS) released a policy brief and recommendations to the Secretary of HHS on Rural Emergency Medical Services. Read the Brief Here The NACRHHS examines pertinent issues that affect the health and well-being of rural Americans through discussions with rural stakeholders. Following each meeting, the Committee …
The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human Services (NACRHHS) released a policy brief and recommendations to the Secretary of HHS on the Rural Emergency Hospital Designation. Read the Brief Here The NACRHHS examines pertinent issues that affect the health and well-being of rural Americans through discussions with rural stakeholders. Following each meeting, the …
RUPRI’s Keith Mueller has been selected by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to serve on a Delphi Panel tasked with developing consensus on a standard definition for “rural health equity.” A Delphi Panel is a selected panel of experts that participate in a structured process to arrive at a group opinion or …
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The Rural Health Research Gateway will host a Webinar It’s Not Easy Being a Rural Pharmacy – Services, Payments, Closures, and Deserts with Fred Ullrich and Keith Mueller, PhD of the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis. November 14 at 1:00 pm Eastern. Register for Webinar Here Date: November 14, 2022Time: 10:00 am Pacific, …
March 2022 In a convening sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and USDA, RUPRI hosted Collaborations in Rural Arts & Cultural Wealth Practice & Scholarship, a two-day virtual gathering of rural artists, culture bearers, community thought leaders, and the research community. These leaders came together to engage in conversation about advancing our understanding of …
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Listen to Podcast Here If you could hit the reset button on healthcare policy, what would you change? In this week’s episode, Dr. Keith Mueller shares his thoughts on what he would improve given the chance to hit the policy reset button, particularly in rural healthcare. “The pandemic taught us we need flexibility to move …
“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 local civic organization worth investing in to strengthen our nation’s communities. The authors write, “In Kentucky, the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX) is a creative leadership program designed to build confidence, grow social …
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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 lens on their new podcast, Making Meaning: Why Humanities Matter. Listen to the episode here.
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 Health Policy Analysis on COVID-19’s impact on rural people and places. Watch the interview here.
Many prominent voices both inside and outside of government are calling on President Biden to focus more attention on rural issues, and even appoint a rural czar to coordinate the effort. On this episode of the Campbell Conversations, Grant Reeher speaks with Charles Fluharty, founder and President Emeritus of the Rural Policy Research Institute at …
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