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The National Rural Health Association is a nonprofit association composed of individual and organizational members who share a common interest in rural health. They offer a variety of publications and resources - books, pamphlets, and periodicals about rural health.
http://nrharural.org

The Medicare Guide to Rural Health Services Information for Providers, Suppliers, and Physicians (Second Edition), which contains rural information pertaining to rural health facility types, coverage and payment policies, and rural provisions under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 and the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, is now available in downloadable format on the Medicare Learning Network Publications Page located at www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/MedicareRuralHealthGuide.

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The National Health Service Crops Experience for Rural Physicians in the Late 1980’s

Interviews National Health Service Corps scholarship program physicians about their experiences in rural health professional shortage areas, to contrast their experiences with those of other physicians working in rural HPSAs and to learn how NHSC physician’s retention is associated with the quality of their experiences JAMA, November 1994.
 

The Comparative Retention of National Health Service Corps & Other Rural Physicians

This narrative describes the results of a 9-year follow-up study comparing the retention of physicians serving NHSC scholarship program obligations in rural settings to that of non-NHSC physicians working in the same or similar practices. Published JAMA September 1992

To borrow any of the lending library items or to request an additional resource be added, please contact AUCH Workforce Development/SEARCH Coordinator by e-mail: Amy Sawaya or call her at 801-974-5522 ext. 2848.