2008 Rural Health Summit
Throughout 2007, over 40 Virginia partners collaborated on developing the Virginia Rural Health Plan. Participants representing government, local, private and statewide agencies and organizations were divided into four work groups: Workforce, Access, Quality and Data/Rural Definition.
On March 31 and April 1, the Virginia Department of Health Office of Minority Health and Public Health Policy and the Virginia Rural Health Association hosted the 2008 Rural Health Summit in Roanoke, VA. At the meeting, rural partners worked to:
- Finalize the first year of the State Rural Health Plan
- Prioritize next steps/recommendations as they exist in the current workgroup areas;
- Determine and prioritize other priority areas for years the next several years (i.e. health information technology, mental/behavioral health, EMS, aging/long-term care, transportation, education, etc.);
- Develop activities/actions for upcoming rural health grants; and
- Determine collaboration on future grants