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Davis Patterson, PhD

Deputy Director, WWAMI Rural Health Research Center, and
Director of the Collaborative for Rural Primary Care Research, Education, and Practice (Rural PREP), and Investigator, Center for Health Workforce Studies, University of Washington

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Authors: Natalia Oster | Davis Patterson | Susan Skillman | Bianca Frogner

Topics: COVID-19, Rural Health

April 6, 2022
This policy brief describes workforce challenges faced by rural health care delivery systems and how pre-pandemic financial instability in rural health care facilities may have contributed to the challenges experienced by the rural health workforce during the pandemic. Available federal pandemic funding to address rural health workforce needs is also discussed.
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Authors: Davis Patterson | Benjamin Stubbs | Nikiah Nudell

Topics: Scope of Practice (SOP)

March 3, 2022
This report examines the extent to which EMS professionals perform skills that correspond to the national Model credential levels and discusses variations in adherence to Model guidelines between agencies serving rural versus urban populations and agencies with volunteer versus paid staffing models.
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Author: Janice Sabin | Grace Guenther | India Ornelas | Davis Patterson | Holly Andrilla | Leo Morales | Kritee Gujral | Bianca Frogner

Topics: Education and Training

February 9, 2022
This article discusses a study that evaluated whether exposure to a brief online course on implicit bias increased bias awareness for health providers.
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August 3, 2021
This webinar explores 8 federal rural definitions and the degree to which they identify the same areas as rural. Rural-urban disparities across socioeconomic, demographic, and health access and outcome measures are also evaluated.
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Authors: Arati Dahal | Susan Skillman | Davis Patterson | Bianca Frogner

Topics: Allied Health, Nursing, Workforce Supply

June 23, 2020
This report explores what the ACS can tell us about commuting patterns among selected allied health occupations and registered nurses as well as how these patterns may inform discussions of health workforce supply.
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