Rural Community Programs

The Black Lung Center of Excellence helps strengthen the quality of services provided by Black Lung Clinics Program awardees, including their ability to collect and analyze clinical and programmatic data. Contact: Krista Mastel, 301-443-0491

Provides support to health facilities to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with occupation-related coal mine dust lung disease through the provision of medical, outreach, educational and benefits counseling services to coal miners. Contact: Krista Mastel, 301-443-0491

Provides support to rural communities in the Delta States (Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee) to implement preventive or clinical health services for chronic diseases. Contact: Patricia Burbano, 301-443-7238

Provides support for outreach services to individuals exposed to nuclear fallout or nuclear materials resulting from U.S. nuclear weapons testing. Outreach services include the development of education programs, dissemination of information on radiogenic diseases and the importance of early detection, screening of eligible individuals for cancer and other radiogenic diseases, referrals for medical treatment, and the facilitation of documentation for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act claims. Contact: Jayne Berube, 301-443-4281

The RCORP supports one year of community-level planning for implementation of opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery interventions. Contact: Allison Hutchings, 301-945-9819.

Provides support to community consortiums in rural communities to prepare individuals with opioid-use disorder to start treatment, implement care coordination practices to organize patient care activities, and support individuals in recovery by establishing new or enhancing existing behavioral counseling, peer support, and alternative pain management activities. Contact: Michael Blodgett, 301-443-0144

Provides support to promote rural health care services outreach projects utilizing evidence-based or promising practice models in order to address community-specific health concerns. Contact: Alexa Ofori, 301-945-3986.

Provides support to rural communities for the implementation of activities needed to plan and develop formal and integrated health care networks such as, but not limited to, business plan development, community needs assessment, network organizational assessment, SWOT analysis and health information technology readiness assessment. Contact: Jillian Causey, 301-443-1493

See a list of the awardees.

Provides support to mature networks of rural health care providers and community health partners to integrate administrative, clinical, technological and financial functions to improve access and quality of health care in rural areas. Contact: Robyn Williams, 301-443-0624

Provides support for the planning and implementation of evidenced-based quality improvement activities in the rural primary care setting in order to improve the quality and delivery of rural primary care services and patient health outcomes. Contact: Katherine Lloyd, 301-443-2933