Rural Health Research and Policy Centers, funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, recently released a compendium entitled Challenges for Improving Health Care Access in Rural America.

This compendium is a great tool to continue discussions surrounding healthcare reform and the challenges faced in rural communities as implementation moves forward. As previously stated in The Rural Voice, some of the rural and workforce provisions in federal healthcare reform were authorized, but not funded. This point must not be forgotten as Colorado and the rest of the country move forward with implementation efforts.