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Veterans Rural Health Resource Center - White River Junction
White River Junction VA Medical Center; White River Junction, Vermont | Established in 2008
VRHRC-White River Junction focus areas include:
- Piloting and evaluating mental health and other program and researching healthcare disparities affecting rural Veterans
- Training rural VA providers in evidence-based practices
- Addressing self-harm and suicide among rural Veterans
Project Portfolio, Fiscal Year 2026
Click Title to view Project Overview PDF for Clinicians and Researchers.- An Evaluation of the VHA Registered Nurse Transition-to-Practice Residency Program at Rural Sites
- Assessing Civil Legal Needs and Services among Rural Veterans
- Evaluating and Optimizing VHA Non-Citizen Physician Hiring Strategies
- Evaluating differences in testing and treatment for common respiratory infections in rural versus urban areas
- Increasing Access to Mobile Mental Health Self-Management Resources for Veterans with PTSD Symptoms in Rural Primary Care Settings
- Prescription CSA Share for Rural Veterans with Chronic Disease
- Preventing Suicide in Rural Veterans: Implementation of an Evidence-Based Telehealth Mindfulness Intervention
- Recruiting and retaining rural registered nurses: A literature review
- Rural Mental Health Workforce Disparities
- Rural Substance Use Disorder Treatment
- Rural Veterans with Depression and Parkinson's Disease: A Telehealth Psychotherapy Solution
- Short-Term and Downstream Effects of Scientific Workforce Loss on Rural VA Health Care
Recent Publications
- Arredondo K, Bay K, Witte L, et al. Rural Practice Made Attractive: A Scoping Review of Rural Primary Care Physician Recruitment and Retention Incentives. J Gen Intern Med. Apr 2026;41(5):1367–1378. doi:10.1007/s11606-026-10218-8
- Arredondo K, Witte L, Paterson-Roberts A, et al. Strengthening Rural Health Care: A Scoping Review of Nurse Recruitment and Retention Strategies. Medical Care. Jan 01 2026;64(1S Suppl 1):S18–S25. doi:10.1097/MLR.0000000000002202
- Cornelius SL, O'Malley AJ, Brooks GA, Tosteson ANA, Schaefer A, Moen EL. Changes in patient-sharing patterns after oncologist departures in rural and urban settings: a Medicare cohort study. Applied Network Science. 2026;11(1):1. doi:10.1007/s41109-025-00762-3
- Griesemer I, Peltzman T, Rupcic S, et al. Prevalence of Civil Legal Needs and Associated Characteristics among U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Patients: A National Survey. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2026;
- Longacre MR, Kinney LM, Carluzzo KL, Watts BV, Schifferdecker KE. Evaluating rural healthcare workforce programs: Applying modified whole-of-person retention improvement framework in VHA programs. The Journal of Rural Health. Jan 2026;42(1):e70115. doi:10.1111/jrh.70115
- Possemato K, Barrie K, Johnson EM, et al. A Pilot Implementation of a Peer-Delivered Service to Increase Behavioral Healthcare Engagement among Rural Veterans. J Rural Health. Mar 2026;42(2):e70154. doi:10.1111/jrh.70154
- Rupcic S, Peltzman T, Jasuja GK, et al. The Civil Legal Needs of Patients Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence in the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2026;
- Shiner B, Dufort V, Peltzman T, Watts BV. Rural-Urban Disparities in Access to Interventional Psychiatry Treatments among VA Patients. Journal of Rural Mental Health. 2026;
- Vadlamani L, Jacob ME, Stacker T, Zamora-Rogoski K, McLean CL, Cohen J. Improving Cancer Screening Rates in Rural Women Veterans Through Clinician-Driven Outreach in the BOOST Program. Mil Med. Apr 24 2026.
Rural Health - Navigation
- Office of Rural Health Home page:
https://www.ruralhealth.va.gov/index.asp - Enterprise-Wide Initiatives (EWI) page:
https://www.ruralhealth.va.gov/Enterprise-Wide-Initiatives-EWI.asp - Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers (VRHRC) page:
https://www.ruralhealth.va.gov/Veterans-Rural-Health-Resource-Center-VRHRC.asp
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