Congratulations to the WWAMI RHRC Deputy Director, Holly Andrilla, who has been awarded the 2023 Research & Scholarship Excellence Award from the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington! The award is given to individuals who are nominated for their contributions to research and scholarship focused on the advancement of education, discovery, and […]
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Oct
Oct
A new study by the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center, led by David Evans, MD, found that patients from rural areas have lower breast cancer screening rates than urban patients. We found that a greater proportion of rural patients received an initial breast cancer diagnosis at a late stage compared with urban patients and that patients living […]
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Sep
Sep
Rural residents travel farther for care and often have more problems accessing care, including medical and surgical specialists, than their urban counterparts. This study compared where urban and rural Medicare beneficiaries received care, how many visits they received, which types of specialists were visited, and how far beneficiaries from different regions and types of areas […]
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Apr
Apr
The WWAMI RHRC congratulates our colleague, Allison Cole, MD, MPH, and her team for their $2.9 million NIH R01 grant award, “Rural Community Support for Colonoscopy.” The study will trial the effectiveness of methods to follow up on positive fecal occult blood tests (FIT) to ensure patients complete colonoscopies and will help the highest risk […]
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Mar
Mar
A new WWAMI RHRC study finds that the number of DEA-waivered clinicians more than doubled from December 2017 to July 2020, from 37,869 to 98,344. The availability of a clinician with a DEA waiver to provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD) has increased across all geographic categories. Nearly two thirds of all rural […]
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Mar
Mar
The Distribution of the General Surgery Workforce in Rural and Urban America in 2019 We are excited to announce a new WWAMI RHRC policy brief from Eric Larson and colleagues on the supply of rural vs. urban general surgery workforce. General surgeons play a crucial role in rural health care in the U.S. Rural general […]
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Dec
Dec
RHRC investigators Andrilla, Evans, and Patterson published multiple articles in a special issue of the Journal of Health for the Poor and Underserved. These studies were conducted through Rural PREP, our HRSA-funded collaborative that conducts research on education and training for rural primary care health professionals.
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Nov
Nov
The WWAMI Rural Health Research Center was recently awarded a $65,000 contract from Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU) to: (1) determine clinical practice locations of PNWU medical school graduates, focusing on clinical practice in urban vs. rural locations, (2) measure the contribution of PNWU to physician supply […]
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Nov
Nov
On National Rural Health Day, the WWAMI RHRC celebrates the #PowerofRural and the work of our colleagues in the Washington State Office of Rural Health!
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Oct
Oct
The WWAMI RHRC has lots of news to share: New funding We recently received new funding from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) – $2.8 million over four years – that will continue to support the WWAMI RHRC in conducting policy-relevant research as one of nine national rural health research centers. New leadership […]
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