New video features Colorado Workforce Collaborative Click on the above link to watch a video from The Colorado Trust highlighting some of the issues faced in recruiting and retatining healthcare professionals in rural and underserved areas of Colorado and how the Colorado Health Professions Workforce Collaborative is working to...

Details are foggy right now, but it sounds as if the Senate is expected to vote tonight on extending the FMAP bump to states. As has been previously mentioned here in The Rural Voice, the FMAP is the methodology used by the federal government to provide states funding for...

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...

The recent release of the Final Rule on Medicaid and Medicare Incentive Programs for Electronic Health Records includes the Stage 1 meaningful use criteria that eligible professionals (EP), such as Physicians, Nurse Practitioners or Physician Assistants, and eligible hospitals (EH) must achieve to qualify for incentive funding. What hasn’t...

The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative (CCHI) is seeking stories from rural residents who are having or have had a difficult time finding primary care services in your community. If you or someone you know has had trouble accessing primary care healthcare services and you would like to share your...