Call for Rural/ Frontier Health Best Practices Compendium Submissions
The National Rural Health Task Force, a group that was established in 2007 to “discuss rural issues, communication strategies, and build partnerships to promote the long-term growth and sustainability of rural community and migrant health centers” through a cooperative agreement with HRSA’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy is putting together a compendium of best practices/ models that work in workforce development and needs your input. The joint task force between the National Rural Health Association and the National Association of Community Health Centers recently met with the charge of “Assuring Survival Through Hard Times: Strengthening the Voice of Rural and Frontier Health Centers”. The task force lead by Carol Miller of New Mexico and Patricia Tarango of Arizona will be, in the coming weeks, authoring a policy paper on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on rural and frontier health centers. Using the discussion content from the two day meeting (July 12-13, 2012) that was facilitated by Harvey Licht, the former New Mexico Primary Care Office director, the task force hopes to introduce this paper through both NRHA and NACHC policy processes to better inform leaders in the policy arena of challenges still being faced by rural and frontier community health centers. Best practices received from NRHA and NACHC members will be incorporated in a compendium used to inform policy at HRSA so please take a moment to fill out this template and return it to Derek Dye at dye@NRHArural.org by Friday, Sept 28, 2012.