Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers: This is an excellent starting point for any reporter covering the health of older veterans in rural America. These Office of Rural Health (ORH) field-based satellite offices serve as hubs of rural health care research, innovation, and dissemination. They were established to:
- Improve understanding of the challenges faced by veterans living in rural areas.
- Identify disparities in the availability of health care to veterans living in rural areas.
- Formulate practices or programs to enhance the delivery of health care to veterans living in rural areas.
- Develop special practices and products for the benefit of veterans living in rural areas and for implementation of such practices and products in the Department system-wide.
Centers are located at host VA medical centers in Iowa City, Iowa; Salt Lake City; White River Junction, Vt., Gainesville, Fla; and Portland, Ore.
A new Wiki from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press now available in beta. As this article in Columbia Journalism Review explains, it’s a collaborative effort to make understanding and filing FOIAs a little easier and more bearable by pooling everyone’s shared wisdom. there’s also a page for just about every federal agency, including contact info, response time, fees and agency involved cases. a forum provides opportunity to discuss current efforts and get advice from other reporters.