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Co-Directors: Kathryn
R. Rost, Ph.D., Dennis
Mohatt
PO Box 9752 . Boulder, CO 80301
WICHE, in collaboration with
the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, has been awarded
four years of support for a rural health research center focused
on mental health. The WICHE Center is one of eight Rural Health
Research Centers funded by the federal Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) Office of Rural Health Policy.
The Center will engage in
an inclusive process with our partners in the WICHE West to
identify potential research areas for focus in the future.
Kathryn Rost, Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center will serve as the Principal Investigator and
Dennis F. Mohatt, M.A., the WICHE Mental Health Program Director
will serve as the assistant principal investigator. Establishing
a rural mental health research center has been a strategic
goal of the mental health program since 2001, and it is with
great pleasure that WICHE celebrates this success. The Center
will serve as a foundation upon which to build new effective
science to service initiatives that continue our half-century
of promoting excellence in public mental healthcare in the
West.
The closely coordinated set of quantitative research projects
for Year 1 include:
to identify at-risk areas within rural America to target for
depression care model adoption,
to determine whether and why existing care models differentially
improve depression treatment in rural and urban populations;
and
to explore promising hospitalization prevention strategies
which have the potential to provide more funding for outpatient
specialty care
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