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Current Challenges and Future Innovation in Rural Heart Failure Care: A Qualitative Analysis

Alexander A Walkon1, Shoshana H Bardach, Aricca D Van Citters

  • 1Alexander A. Walkon, BS, Medical Student, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire. Shoshana H. Bardach, PhD, Program Director, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire. Aricca D. Van Citters, MS, Senior Research Scientist, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire. Tamar Mosulishvili, MD, Medical Student, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire. Samuel L. Youkilis, BA, Medical Student, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire. Amanda N. Perry, BA, Program Manager, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire. Megan M. Holthoff, MSHS, Senior Research Project Director, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire. Olawale O. Akinola, MD, MS, Physician-Scientist, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire. Amelia M. Cullinan, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine; Section Chief and Director of Palliative Care, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire. Melissa Borrows, RN, Clinical Researcher, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire. Katharine A. Manning, MD, MBE, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Co-Section Chief of Advanced Heart Failure, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.

The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
|September 15, 2026
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