Dr. Derksen, Director of the Arizona Center for Rural Health, quoted in Arizona Republic article about Arizona expanding parameters for children to get Medicaid coverage.

A recent study, supported by faculty and staff from the Arizona Center for Rural Health, the Arizona Prevention Research Center, and Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has been publish in the January/February issue of Journal of Opioid Management. The study examines "rural hospitals' status in implementing opioid stewardship program (OSP) elements and assesses differences in implementation in emergency department (ED) and acute inpatient departments."

In an opinion piece published on AZCentral.com on Wednesday, Brittney Kauffman, CEO of the Health System Alliance of Arizona, makes the case for expanding residency programs in Arizona.

The author lays out the need to for support by illustrating acute shortages and low rankings in number of primary care physicians per capita, and specifically citing Arizona Center for Rural Health Policy Briefs on Graduate Medical Education in Arizona.

Through the AzCRH Rural Health Professions Program and the Health Sciences Design Program, the MILAGRO Collaborative course provides an opportunity for a multidisciplinary team of faculty and students to address much-needed services to newly released migrants in Tucson.

The number of Arizonans covered by the ACA – also known as Obamacare – rose more than 110,000 during the year, to 348,055.

The National Rural Health Resource Center's recently updated Population Health Toolkit — which includes the newest population health data from a half-dozen publicly available data sets — is now available online.

Arizona Health Care Workforce Investment Fund would address healthcare workforce shortages in Arizona

Three new and upgraded health facilities recently opened in Arizona to provide Native Americans with better access to health care, and more are in the works.

Advancing Health Equity, Addressing Disparities in Arizona (AHEAD AZ) team participated in Farmworker Health Fair Event in San Luis, Yuma County, Arizona.