Status and Future of Health Care Delivery in Rural Wyoming

Funder:	Wyoming Healthcare Commission
Research center:	Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis Phone: 402.559.5260
Lead researcher:	Keith J. Mueller, PhD , 402.559.5260, kmueller@unmc.edu
Project completed:	July 2007
Topics:	Health services Rural statistics and demographics

The RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis conducted an analysis of the delivery of health care services in rural Wyoming under contract to the Wyoming Healthcare Commission. We collected data between July 2006 and March 2007 from a variety of sources using a patient-centered, community-based paradigm and a continuum of care framework.

Study findings are presented in a report that covers the Wyoming population and the health care delivery system, workforce recruitment and retention, delivery system redesign, community case studies, economic impact of the health care system, hospital inpatient out-migration, and other systems as models for change. A final chapter presents recommendations to meet the need for health professionals, improve health care in communities, monitor and analyze trends in health care delivery, and achieve systemic change in health care delivery and finance.

Publications

• Status and Future of Health Care Delivery in Rural Wyoming
  Date: 06 / 2007
  Provides findings from an analysis of health care service delivery in rural Wyoming. Includes an overview of Wyoming's population and the health care service delivery system. Covers workforce recruitment and retention, the economic impact of the health care system, and other topics.
• Status and Future of Health Care Delivery in Rural Wyoming: A Summary Report
  Date: 2007
  Provides recommendations for improving the health care delivery system in rural Wyoming.