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janprobst.bsky.social
@janprobst.bsky.social
@janprobst.bsky.social
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Jan Probst
~ 40 years health services research, mostly into rural issues
Guardian of Sam the rural health advoCATe.
Bibliography:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1HMPkKfOyD5kE/bibliography/public/
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Sam the rural health advoCATe loves veterans and loves analyses that include rurality. However, the definitions documented in this study appear incorrect (screenshot). RUCAs 1.0 - 3.0 are urban, per ERS/USDA.

#PowerOfRuralCats

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Census tracts with rural-urban commuting codes of 1.0 or 1.1 are characterized as urban. …tracts coded 10.0 are highly rural
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Yep,
Picture of a grey tabby cat looking downcast.
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Sam the rural health advoCATe is cheering these new Rural Health Fellows!

Remember to offer a toast to each of them on National Rural Health Day, this Thursday, November 20.

@ruralhealth.bsky.social

#PowerOfRuralCats

www.ruralhealth.us/blogs/2025/1...
Picture of a tabby cat,winking, while one paw rests on a National Rural Health Day pin.
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Sam the rural health advoCATe is hissed. We cannot expect rural kittens to enter health professions, or others, with inadequate access to the classes they need. Education is a key determinant of health.

#PowerOfRuralCats

www.nwea.org/research/pub...
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
janprobst.bsky.social
Hmmmm.

But Sam the rural health advoCATe is never Reviewer 2 on promoting rural health (IYKYK).

This Thursday, Nov. 20, is National Rural Health Day. Visit nosorh.org to find ways in which you can participate in rural health education and advocacy in your state.

#PowerOfRuralCats
Screen shot of a manuscript review page, showing that Sam's guardian has been assigned Reviewer Number 2.
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Interesting, notes Sam the rural health advoCATe. There is not a perfect match between current legislation and 2019-2023 data, but still a complement to this new research.

#PowerOfRuralCats

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Sam the rural health advoCATe appreciates recognition that rural populations are both diverse and under-resourced.

Food insecurity is higher in rural.

Remember this on National Rural Health Day, Nov 20!

#PowerOfRuralCats
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Lizards molt! They are getting ready.
Picture of a brown anole with white skin coming off. Looks like he’s wearing a lab coat.
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Tabby cat, white whiskers.
October 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Norman the dog reminds everyone that National Rural Health Day is not celebrated soley by rural cats. Rural is for everyone.

Plan now for Nov 20! @ruralhealth.bsky.social @nosorh.bsky.social

#PowerOfRural

#PowerOfRuralCats
Image of a medium sized brown dog with a white chest, sitting on a porch and wearing a National Rural Health Day bandana.
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I love this! There are so many bad rural takes, they are hard to keep up with! Sam is purring!
Picture of a sleeping grey tabby cat on a plaid fleece blanket
October 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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No matter how bad things get, we still have kids and cats.
October 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Sam's guardian just attempted to check some info on CDC WONDER while writing a peer review (yes, SG is *that* reviewer). Got the message below. Sam the rural health advoCATe is hissed.
#PowerOfRuralCats
October 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Picture of a tabby cat stretched over warm laundry.
October 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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September 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Tabby cat by a window, one paw raised at something outside the window.
September 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Sam the rural health advoCATe is already worried, and he has only viewed the synopsis. The emphasis on "efficiency" and "systems" provides an avenue to bypass rural providers. In a prior MACPAC report, all rural home health agencies were "inefficient" -- b/c of drive time.
#PowerOfRuralCats
Sustainable access: Help rural providers become long-term access points for care by improving efficiency and sustainability. With RHT Program support, rural facilities work together—or with high-quality regional systems—to share or coordinate operations, technology, primary and specialty care, and emergency services.
September 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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In other news: Sam's guardian is doing last minute checks for a presentation to be given tomorrow. When the materials were prepared a month ago, CDC WONDER age-adjusted death data did not extend past 2020. As of today, it's not there at all. Guardian is NOT happy.
#PowerOfRuralCats
September 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Endorsed by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Rural America is many places and many kinds of people. The @brookings.edu report linked below contains a good review of the racial/ethnic makeup of rural.
#PowerOfRuralCats
www.brookings.edu/articles/map...
A map of the US. Counties with large minoritized populations are shown Black populations are largely in the South, Latino in the West, AI/AN in Alaska and the upper Midwest, and Asian in Hawaii.
September 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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@whitneyzahnd.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Because someone needs this: rural America.
A dramatic view of a road disappearing to the horizon, with mountains to the left but flat land closer to the road. Dramatic clouds overhead.
August 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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If you need a break:
Cat art for a Caturday.
July 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Sam the rural health advoCATe, sharing a new pub. The principal product of this scoping review: a way of framing rural hospital merger/closure effects.

#PowerOfRuralCats

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A graphic showing social ecology (left) and institutional ecology (right) as ways of categorizing findings regard access, health/wellbeing, utilization, worforce and financing.
July 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Sam the rural health advoCATe as captured by a young admirer.
July 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Whiskers Wednesday.
July 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM