National Rural Health Association
- National
Rural Health Association
The NRHA is a national
nonprofit membership organization with more than 18,000 members that
provides leadership on rural health issues. The association’s mission
is to improve the health and wellbeing of rural Americans and to provide
leadership on rural health issues through advocacy, communications,
education, research and leadership. The NRHA membership is made up of
a diverse collection of individuals and organizations, all of whom share
the common bond of an interest in rural health.
Health Associations & Organizations
- Institute of Rural Health -
The mission of the IRH is to improve the health of rural communities in Idaho and the Intermountain Region, as well as throughout the nation and the world, through research, education, and service.
- Idaho State Office of Rural Health & Primary Care -
The Idaho State Office of Rural Health & Primary Care's Mission is to promote
access to quality health care for people in Idaho. The office supports its mission through a variety of programs, services, and
activities.
- Idaho
Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP)
- The Idaho Academy of Family Physicians is committed to quality
health care, education, and advocacy on behalf of Idaho’s family physicians
and their patients.
- Idaho
Academy of Physician Assistants (IAPA)
- The Idaho Academy of Physician Assistants represents Physician
Assistants in the state, promotes the Physician Assistant profession
within the state, and furthers education of our members.
- Idaho
Association of Chiropractic Physicians
(IACP) - The
Idaho Association of Chiropractors is a
professional, not-for-profit association comprised of individual members
with varying philosophies and operates by democratic rule of the majority
of its members, through officials elected by peers in their geographic
areas. Its primary function is the protection and welfare of it individual
members, regardless of philosophy, as well as the education of the public
concerning the chiropractic profession.
- Idaho
Board of Medicine
- The Idaho State Medical Board's primary responsibility and obligation
is to protect patients through proper licensing and regulation of physicians
and other health care professionals.
- Idaho
Dental Hygienists' Association (IDHA)
- The Idaho Dental Hygienists' Association (IDHA) is the professional
organization representing dental hygienists in the state of Idaho. The
IDHA is a constituent of the American Dental Hygienists' Association.
The mission of IDHA is to improve total health by increasing the public's
awareness of and access to quality oral health care, promote the highest
standards of dental hygiene education, licensure, and practice and represent
and promote the interests of dental hygiene.
- Idaho
Department of Health and Welfare
- Offer programs that deal with complex social, economic and
individual issues. They range from Medicaid to Food Stamps, Child Protection
to Disease Prevention. Last year, we helped almost 340,000 people in
our state, one out of every four Idahoans.
- Idaho
Health - Idaho
Department of Health and Welfare information site
- Idaho
Health Care Association (IHCA)
- The mission of the Association is to assist its members to enhance the care and quality of life of
all individuals served.
- Idaho
Home Health and Hospice (IHHH)
- Our mission is to establish and maintain a regionally respected
home care agency that provides the highest standard of quality home
care by dependable, responsive, caring, trustworthy, skilled personnel
and provide quality supportive care to individuals and their families
dealing with life limiting illness allowing them to remain in their
own homes with comfort and dignity.
- Idaho
Hospital Association (IHA)While
our primary focus is state and federal government relations and advocacy
efforts on behalf of our members, IHA also provides other valuable membership
services such as consultation on matters such as physician relations
and hospital law, group unemployment compensation program, quality and
patient safety, workforce development, education programs, data collection
and interpretation, and other member services.
- Idaho
Medical Association (IMA)Promoting the science and art of medicine, Protecting the public
health, Enhancing the medical profession of the State of Idaho
- Idaho Nurse's Association (INA) - To foster high standards of nursing
practice, promote the professional educational advancement of nurses,
and promote the welfare of nurses to the end that all people may have
better nursing care.
- Idaho Physical Therapy Association - the principle membership organization
representing and promoting the profession of physical therapy in Idaho,
is to further the profession’s role in the prevention, diagnosis,
and treatment of movement dysfunctions and the enhancement of the physical
health and functional abilities of members of the public through education,
research, and evidenced-based practice.
- Idaho
Primary Care Association (IPCA)
- The Primary Care Association (PCA) for the state of Idaho, representing
Idaho's twelve Community Health Centers and three supporting members.
PCAs serve as major links between Community Health Centers and their
clinic sites, the Bureau of Primary Health Care (Department of Health
and Human Services) and state and local governments. The mission of
Idaho Primary Care Association is to advance the expansion of Federally
Qualified Health Centers and to advocate for the health care needs of
Idahoans, especially the underserved.
- Idaho
Psychological Association
- IPA is dedicated to advancing
psychology as a professional practice and a scientific endeavor. IPA
aims to promote health and human welfare by encouraging the application
of psychology in individual and family life, business, law, health care,
and education. IPA works to increase public appreciation of psychology,
to provide continuing education for psychologists, and to promote high
standards of professional and ethical conduct in the field of psychology.
- Idaho
Speech, Language, Hearing Association (ISHA) – Serving Idaho since 1960, 275
members strong and still growing.
- Idaho
State Dental Association (ISDA) -
The Idaho State Dental Association is the professional association of
dentists committed to the public’s oral health through professional
advancement, science and ethics: Leading a unified profession through
initiatives in advocacy, education, and the development of standards.
- Family Medicine
Residency of Idaho Rural Outreach – Link coming
soon!
- Mountain
States Group -
A diverse non-profit organization working in health and human services.
We impact the quality of many people's lives locally, nationally, and
internationally through a variety of government, and foundation funded
programs and fee for service.
- Northwest
Regional Primary Care Association (NWRPCA)
- Northwest Regional Primary Care Association (NWRPCA) is a non-profit
membership association that works to ensure equal access to primary
health care for all residents living in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
- Qualis
Health - An
independent, private, nonprofit health care quality improvement organization.
Headquartered in Seattle (Washington) with offices in Idaho and Alaska.
National Resources
- American Academy of Family Physicians The American Academy of Family Physicians is
the national association of family doctors. It was founded in 1947 to
promote and maintain high quality standards for family doctors who are
providing continuing comprehensive health care to the public.
- American College of Nurse Practitioners - The American College of Nurse Practitioners
(ACNP), located in Washington, DC, is a national, non-profit membership organization
whose mission is to ensure a solid policy and regulatory foundation
that enables Nurse Practitioners to continue providing accessible, high
quality healthcare to the nation.
- American Medical Association - The American Medical Association helps doctors
help patients by uniting physicians nationwide to work on the most important
professional and public health issues.
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American Occupational Therapy Association
- The national professional association
established in 1917 to represent the interests and concerns of occupational
therapy practitioners and students of occupational therapy and to improve
the quality of occupational therapy services.
- Federal Office of Rural Health Policy - The Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) promotes
better health care service in rural America by informing and advising
the Department of Health and Human Services on matters affecting rural
hospitals, and health care, co-ordinating activities within the department
that relate to rural health care, and maintaining a national information
clearinghouse.
- National Association of County & City
Health Officials, Rural Health -
The goals of NACCHO’s rural health project are three-fold: to better
understand the current local governmental public health infrastructure
in rural communities, to identify the public health infrastructure and
practice needs of rural communities, and to help meet those defined
needs.
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National Rural Health Clinic Association - The
only national organization dedicated exclusively to improving the delivery
of quality, cost-effective health care in rural underserved areas through
the Rural Health Clinics Program (RHC Program). NARHC works with Congress,
federal agencies, and rural health allies to promote, expand, and protect
the interests of clinics in the RHC Program.
Legislative Resources
Funding Resources
- The
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
- A portal to federal grants.
- ORHP grants
- Online information on all ORHP grants in a state. Just click on your
state to see a complete list of FY02 Outreach, Network, AED, SHIP, Delta,
SORH, and Flex grants.
- Bureau of Health Professions Grants Files - Information about AHEC, ORHP and other BHP
grant programs.
- National Library of Medicine Grant Listing - List of library-related grants.
- RICHS Funding Resources (Federal & Private) - Listing of grants and grantors.
- Grant
Makers in Health - News,
information, and resources for health philanthropy.
- www.grants.gov - This web site is a teaching tool for those
applying for federal grants. It has information about more than 800
available grant programs involving all 26 federal grant-making agencies.
- National
Institute of Health, Office of Extramural Research - Home of the National Institute of Health guide.
- Capital Assistance Funding: A Rural Health
Resource Guide
- This guide is designed to help hospitals, clinics, community health
centers, and other rural health providers learn more about various funding
options to meet their capital needs.
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention Funding Opportunities - Information and links in the following areas:
Grants & Cooperative Agreements, RFP Solicitations, and Notices
& Public Comment.
- Gates
Foundation (Bill and Melinda)
- More than seventeen billion dollars in endowments are available.
- Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation -
The nation's largest private philanthropic organization devoted to health
care.
- The
Foundation Center - Lots
of funding resources and links.
- Health
Resources Publishing - News
about fundraising and grant support.
- Rural Funding by State –
Funding for rural areas categorized by state.
- Rural
Assistance Center
- A product of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services’ Rural Initiative, the Rural
Assistance Center (RAC) was established in December 2002 as a rural
health and human services "information portal." RAC helps rural
communities and other rural stakeholders access the full range of available
programs, funding, and research that can enable them to provide quality
health and human services to rural residents.
