What is the current implementation plan with the data that has been gathered?
Atwater: We are very interested in continuing the work started by the Rural Health Works process. Our plan is to first ask for volunteers from the original AC to help us in that endeavor, and we hope to convene this group on a quarterly basis. We envision this group will focus first on the Health and Human Services Directory. Before it is published countywide, it will have to be re-reviewed, and there will need to be some discussion about how it will be distributed. Subsequent meetings will focus on how to use the data generated by the economic impact report, the secondary data report, and the telephone survey. The AC will also play a key role in communicating findings and outcomes from these studies to our community. NACo has made all of the reports/directories generated for each of the Rural Health Works county sites available in its Web site, www.naco.org/techassistance click on Health.
