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Rural Veteran Health Background
Office of Rural Health Background Information
This page contains a variety of prepared information on U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) efforts to increase access to care for rural Veterans. Feel free to contact the Office of Rural Health (ORH) to request specific information, such as VA’s special population, demographic, or state-centric data as it pertains to rural Veterans. Inquiries can be made via email to ORH.
- Strategic Plan – one page summary
- Annual Reports
- Quarterly Newsletter - "The Rural Connection"
- Veteran's Health Library
- Videos
- ORH Overview
- Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers
- VA Farming And Recovery Mental Health Services (VA FARMS)
- Innovation at ORH
- Rural Workforce Initiatives
- Home-Based Primary Care
- Home-Based Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- How to Participate in Home Based Cardiac Care Services
- Rural Community Clergy Training Program
- Rural Veteran Transportation Service
- Additional Health Care Centric Videos
- Fact Sheets
- ORH Brochure
- ORH Overview
- ORH Operations
- Enterprise-Wide Initiatives
- Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers
- Clinical Resource Hubs
- How to Define Rurality
- VHA Rural Health COVID-19 Decision Support Tool
- Internal VHA Funding Requests
- Enterprise-Wide Initiative Evaluations
- Center for the Evaluation of Enterprise-Wide Initiatives (CEEWI)
- Workforce
- VA Farming and Recovery Mental Health Services (VA FARMS)
- Rural Promising Practices
- Indian Health Service Partnership
- Rural Telehealth
- Veterans Rural Health Advisory Committee
- Rural Interprofessional Faculty Development Initiative (RIFDI)
- Rural Health Career Development Award (CDA) Program
- Rural Scholars Fellowship
- Research Library
- Rural Promising Practices (Details and Papers)