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Rural Hospital Closures: How Many, Why, and What Can Slow Them
More than 180 rural hospitals have closed or dropped inpatient care since 2010, and hundreds more are at risk. The Rural Health Transformation...
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The Rural Workforce Shortage and How Mobile Programs Expand Reach When Staff are Scarce
Rural communities hold most of the nation's health professional shortage areas, and no amount of new funding creates clinicians overnight. That is...
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Relapse Prevention in Substance Use Recovery
Relapse prevention is the ongoing work of keeping a person engaged in recovery and lowering the chance of a return to substance use. It rests on...
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Reaching and Treating Youth Who Use Drugs
Reaching and treating youth who use drugs means combining active outreach in places young people already are, age-appropriate screening and...
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Street Medicine: Mobile Care for People Experiencing Homelessness
Street medicine is the practice of delivering health care directly to people experiencing homelessness where they live, in encampments, under...
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How to Choose Sites, Routes, and Schedules for a Mobile Health Clinic
Choosing where a mobile health clinic goes, how it gets there, and when it shows up is the difference between a unit that stays booked and one that...
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Turnkey vs In-House: Choosing How to Operate Your Mobile Clinic
Once you have decided what your mobile clinic will do, you have to decide who runs it. There are two main operating models: turnkey, where a partner...
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Meeting the Broader Health Needs of People Who Use Drugs
Meeting the broader health needs of people who use drugs means delivering primary care alongside substance use services, because the same people who...
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How Mobile Clinics Deliver Substance Use Treatment
A mobile substance use program is a clinical unit, often a converted van or RV, that brings screening, medications for opioid use disorder,...