Publications and Reports
Gapenski LC and Pink GH. Understanding Healthcare Financial Management 6 th Edition, AUPHA/HAP, ISBN 13: 978-1-56793-362-8, 727 pages, December 2010.
Holmes GM and GH Pink, Risk of Financial Distress Among Critical Access Hospitals: A Proposed Model, Flex Monitoring Team Policy Brief # 20, April 2011.
Holmes GM, S Karim, and GH Pink, Changes in Obstetrical Services Among Critical Access Hospitals, Flex Monitoring Team Policy Brief # 18, March 2011.
Holmes GM, GH Pink, and HA Howard. Profitability of Rural Hospitals Paid Under Prospective Payment Compared to Rural Hospitals with Special Medicare Payment Provisions. Findings Brief #97, North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center, 2010.
Holmes GM, GH Pink, SA Friedman, and HA Howard, A Comparison of Rural Hospitals with Special Medicare Payment Provisions to Urban and Rural Hospitals Paid under Prospective Payment, Final Report submitted to the federal Office of Rural Health Policy, August 2010
Holmes Mark; Carol Ford. Now the hard work begins. North Carolina Medical Journal 2010;71(4):377-379
Richardson, I., Slifkin, R., Randolph, R., Holmes G.M. “A Rural-Urban Comparison of Allied Health Professionals’ Average Hourly Wage”. Journal of Allied Health, 39(3), 91E-96E, Fall 2010.
Radford, A., Slifkin, R., King, J., Lampman, M., Richardson, I. and Rutledge, S., The Relationship Between the Financial Status of Sole Community Independent Pharmacies and Their Broader Involvement With Other Rural Providers. The Journal of Rural Health, 27(2011) 176-183 doi:10.1111/j.1748-0361.2010.00331.x.
Radford A. “Evaluation of the Initiative to Implement Cancer and Tobacco Control Programs in Health Centers – Tobacco Supplement.” March 2011 For the North Carolina Community Health Center Association
Richardson, I., Slifkin, R., Randolph, R., Holmes G.M. “A Rural-Urban Comparison of Allied Health Professionals’ Average Hourly Wage”. Journal of Allied Health, 39(3), 91E-96E, Fall 2010.
Publications July 2009-June 2010
Belsky D, Ricketts TC, Poley S, Gaul K, Fraher E, Sheldon G. 2009 Surgical Deserts in the US: Places Without Surgeons. Chapel Hill, NC, American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute.
Carey TS, Freburger JK, Holmes GM, et al. Race, Care Seeking and Utilization for Chronic Back and Neck Pain: Population Perspectives. The Journal of Pain. 23 October 2009. PMID: 19853527.
Carpenter JM, Hadley HL, Groves J, Gaul K, and Fraher EP. North Carolina Health Professions 2008 Data Book. Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. October 2009.
DeWalt DA, Broucksou KA, Hawk V, Baker DW, Schillinger D, Ruo B, Bibbins-Romingo K, Holmes M, Weinberger M, Macabasco-Connel A, and Pignone M. Comparison of a one-time educational intervention to a teach-to-goal educational intervention for self-management of heart failure. BMC Health Services Research. 2009, 9:99. PMCID: PMC2702288.
Erwin PC, Greene SB, Mays GP, Ricketts TC, Davis MV. The association of changes in local health department resources with changes in state level health outcomes. American Journal of Public Health 2010 June 17 Epub ahead of print.
Fraher EP, Carpenter J and Broome S. Health Care Employment and the Current Economic Recession. North Carolina Medical Journal 2009;70(4): 331-336.
Fraher E and Knapton A. “Migration Patterns of the Recently Trained Medical Workforce.” NHS Workforce Review Team. January 2010.
Fraher E, Belsky DW, Gaul K, Carpenter J. 2010. Factors affecting attrition from associate degree nursing programs in North Carolina. Cahiers de Sociologie et de Démographie Médicales. April-June 2010, 50(2): 213-246.
Gapenski LC in collaboration with GH Pink, Cases in Healthcare Finance 4th Edition, AUPHA/HAP, ISBN 13: 978-1-56793-342-0, 270 pages, 2009.
Gaul K, Carpenter JM, Fraher EP, Hadley HL. Trends in the Supply of Pharmacists in North Carolina. Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. March 2010.
Gaul K, Poley ST, Ricketts TC, Walker E, Groves J. Mapping the supply of surgeons in the United States, 2009. Chapel Hill, NC: American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute, 2010.
Hall McGillis L, GH Pink, CB Jones, P Leatt, M Gates, L Seto, and J Petersen. Gone South: Why Nurses Migrate to the U.S. from Canada, Healthcare Policy 4(4), 2009, 91-106.
Harden B, Fraher EP. The Challenge of Health Workforce Planning in the Context of Service Redesign, Changing Demographics and International Workforce Migration. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation. 2010;17(4): 195-200.
Haynes LE, TT Huynh, C Beadles, GH Pink, WN Zelman, Growth and Development of the Balanced Scorecard in the United States, Journal of Healthcare Balanced Scorecard Research, 2009.
King J, Fraher EP, Ricketts TC, Charles A, Sheldon GF and Meyer A. Characteristics of Practice among Rural and Urban General Surgeons in North Carolina. Annals of Surgery. 2009; 249(6): 1052-1060.
King Jennifer, George M. Holmes, Rebecca T. Slifkin. “Children’s Medicaid and CHIP Participation in Rural and Urban Areas,” Inquiry, 47(2):150-61, Summer 2010.
King Jennifer, Janet K. Freburger, Rebecca T. Slifkin. “What Does the Clinical Doctorate in Physical Therapy Mean for Rural Communities?” Physiotherapy Research International, 15(1):24-34, March 2010.
Klepser D, Lampman M, Radford A, Richardson I, and Rutledge S. "Workforce Issues Among Sole Community Pharmacists." 2009. NC RHRP Findings Brief No. 89.
Landry MD, Ricketts TC, Fraher E, Verrier MC. Physical Therapy Health Human Resource Ratios: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Canada. Physical Therapy. 2009; Jan 8 (web online).
Pathman D, Ricketts TC. 2009. Interdependence of General Surgeons and Primary Care Physicians in Rural Communities. Surgical Clinics of North America. 89(6): 1293-302.
Pink GH, GM Holmes and RT Slifkin. Critical Access Hospitals and Financial Benchmark Performance, Flex Monitoring Team Policy Brief No. 10, October 2009.
Poley S, Belsky D, Gaul K, Ricketts T, Fraher E, Sheldon G. Longitudinal Trends in the U.S. Surgical Workforce. Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. 2009; 94(8): 27-31.
Radford A, Mason M, Richardson I, Rutledge S, Poley S, Mueller K, Slifkin R. "Continuing Effects of Medicare Part D on Rural Independent Pharmacies Who are the Sole Retail Provider in Their Community." Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 5:17-30, 2009.
Radford A, Hamon M, Nelligan C. "States' Use of Cost Based Reimbursement for Critical Access Hospitals" 2009. NC RHRP Findings Brief.
Radford A, Lampman M, Richardson I, and Rutledge S. "Profile of Sole Community Pharmacists' Prescription Sales and Overall Financial Position." 2009. NC RHRP Findings Brief No. 92.
Reiter K, DW Harless, J Spetz, and BA Mark. The Effect of Minimum Nurse Staffing Legislation on Uncompensated Care Provided by California Hospitals, Medical Care Research and Review, forthcoming.
Reiter K, G Sandoval, A Brown, and GH Pink. CEO Compensation and Hospital Financial Performance, Medical Care Research and Review 66(6): December 2009, 725-38.
Richardson, I., Slifkin, R., Randolph, R., Holmes G.M. "A Rural-Urban Comparison of Allied Health Professionals' Average Hourly Wage". Journal of Allied Health, Vol 39(3), pg 91E-96E, Fall 2010.
Ricketts TC. Rural Health. In: Mullner, R. ed. The Encyclopedia of Health Services Research. Sage Publications, Inc., 2009 pp. 1054-8.
Ricketts, TC. “Public Health Policy and the Policy-Making Process” in: Scutchfield FD, Keck CW, Mays G. Principles of Public Health Practice, 3rd Edition. Clifton Park NJ: Thomson Delmar Learning. 2009. Pp. 86-115.
Ricketts TC. 2009. Preparing the Health Services Research Workforce. Health Services Research. 44(6):2227-2241.
Ricketts TC. 2009. How Many Physicians? How Much Does It Matter? JAMA. 302(15):1701-1702
Ricketts TC. 2010. The Migration of Surgeons. Annals of Surgery. 251(2):363-367.
Ricketts TC. Accessing Health Care. Chapter in A Companion to Health and Medical Geography. Brown T, McLafferty S, Moon G. eds. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 pp. 521-39.
Walker E, Poley S, Ricketts TC. 2010. The Aging Surgeon Population: Fact Sheet No., 5”. Chapel Hill, NC: American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute
Wang V, Lee S-Y D, Patel U, Weiner BJ, Ricketts TC, Weinberger M. 2010. Geographic and temporal trends in peritoneal dialysis services in the United States between 1995 and 2003. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 55(6):1079-87. April 10, Epub ahead of print.
Wells R, Morrissey J, Lee E, Radford A. "Recent Trends in Behavioral Health Care Service Provision by Community Health Centers." Psychiatric Services, 61(8):759-764,2010.
Wright DB, Ricketts TC. 2010. The road to efficiency? Re-examining the impact of the primary care physician workforce on health care utilization rates. Social Science & Medicine. 70(12):2006-10.
