The Rural California Fact Sheet
The California State Rural Health Association (CSHRA) has developed a Rural California Fact Sheet with statistics collected from the presentation delivered by Sam Willburn, Chief of the State Office of Rural Health, during the CSRHA 2005 annual conference. The fact sheet provides rural definitions, population, geography, socioeconomic indicators, health conditions and health insurance utilization information about rural California. CSRHA encourages rural colleagues to utilize the fact sheet to promote awareness of California's rurality and its need for adequate funding. To view the Rural Califronia Fact Sheet, click here.

The Rural Kaleidoscope
The Rural Kaleidoscope: A Guide on Promising Practices to Diversify California’s Rural Healthcare Workforce identifies challenges rural health care providers confront in recruiting and retaining health care workers, and promising practices they have developed to address these challenges.

The guide’s goal is to increase awareness of these promising practices and to encourage communication between those who developed them and those who are looking for ways to improve their health care workforce recruitment and retention strategies. The Guide is based on a year-long study of recruitment and retention in California’s rural health care sector. Rural health care providers played a major role in developing the research questions that drove the study and in exploring them in focus groups and interviews. To view The Rural Kaleidoscope, click here.

The Advocate
The Advocate is a biweekly electronic publication of the California State Rural Health Association that contains news and links that are important to providers and consumers of health care in rural California. This publication is made available free as a service to our membership, colleagues and friends. To register to receive the Advocate click here. To view past Advocate articles, click here.  

The Story of Rural Health
The Story of Rural Health is a video documentary of the crisis of rural health told from the perspective of providers, health professionals, consumers and policy makers. To order a copy of the 15 minute version of the documentary click here to email CSRHA or call 916-453-0780. To view the history and filming process go to www.csrha.org/story, or click on the thumbnails below to view selections from the over 40 hours of footage gathered for this project.

Jim Lester, EMT	Dr. Pops	Angel Flight	Kids
Assemblyman Cogdill	Eureka County	Dr. Grumbach

Recruitment Video
The recruitment video shown here is a four-minute video segment focusing on the joys of rural practice. The clip is meant as a recruitment tool to introduce health professionals to the possibility of rural practice and is in draft format. Click on one of the following to view a clip:
[ Quicktime, 10.5M ]
[ Windows Media, 11.8M ]
[ Windows Media Low Bandwidth, 3.2M ]

The Bulletin
The Bulletin is a quarterly print publication of the California State Rural Health Association that contains current legislation updates, information regarding statewide resources and an update on CSRHA activities. This resource is a benefit of CSRHA membership. To sign up for membership click here.

Bulletin Archives:
Fall 2002  [ Acrobat® PDF ]
Summer 2002  [ Acrobat® PDF ]
Spring 2002  [ Acrobat® PDF ]
Winter 2001/02  [ Acrobat® PDF ]
Special Conference Edition, October 2001 [ Acrobat® PDF ]
Fall 2001  [ Acrobat® PDF ]
Summer 2001  [ Acrobat® PDF ]
January/February 2001  [ HTML ]
November/December 2000  [ Offline ]
September/October 2000  [ HTML ]
July-August 2000  [ HTML ]
May-June 2000  [ Offline ]
Special Report: Rural Health Care at Risk  [ Acrobat® PDF ]