Rural Health Professions Action Plan

11/20/2025

Healthcare Attraction starts by telling your story. 🌳🏥👩‍⚕️

The AIR Toolkit helps rural communities showcase their strengths and prepare to welcome healthcare professionals and their families.

From community profiles to recruitment strategies, everything is tailored to rural Alberta realities.

✨ Start attracting today: rhpap.ca/ruralcommunities/air-toolkit

11/18/2025

Know a student in Alberta studying medicine or healthcare who dreams of rural service? Tag them!

The RhPAP Rural Healthcare Student Awards are open until February 1. Recipients will receive $5,000 to help with tuition.

Meet one of last year's shining recipients, Rachel Stefaniuk, from Willingdon, Alberta 🌟: https://loom.ly/cIrHIJo

Learn more and apply at RhPAP.ca/RHSA

Growing up on a cattle and grain farm near Willingdon, just 125 km northeast of Edmonton, Rachel Stefaniuk knows the value of a rural community. "I really en...

11/17/2025

💚 RhPAP’s Knowledge Now Series invites you to an introduction to Alberta’s Rural Health Branch and the 2024–2027 Rural Health Action Plan — a new approach to improving access, care models, and wellness across rural Alberta.

Join us and special guests from the Government of Alberta to learn more.

🗓️ Nov 27 | 11 a.m.–12 p.m. MST
💻 Online

🔗 Register today! https://loom.ly/jEmEAHs

11/13/2025

Real support, rooted in rural Alberta. 🌱

From 62 Attraction & Retention Committees to 649 dedicated volunteers, RhPAP helps communities grow their own healthcare solutions.

Discover more: RhPAP.ca

11/13/2025

✨ In small towns and quiet corners of Alberta, extraordinary people care for their neighbours with unmatched dedication.
This is your chance to say “thank you” in a way they’ll never forget.

💙 Nominate a rural health hero for a Rhapsody Award today.

📨 It’s easier than ever: https://loom.ly/UzeaEHU

11/12/2025

A Let’s Go Rural! high school event prompted Vegreville student Valery Hernandez to pursue a healthcare career.

A Grade 10 student at the time, Hernandez wasn’t particularly interested in a healthcare career and thought she would follow in her mother’s footsteps to become a university professor. But when friends encouraged her to tag along to the high school event, she did.

Learning about the healthcare field for just a few hours proved pivotal for Hernandez. As she interacted with nurses, doctors, paramedics, and other health professionals at St. Joseph’s General Hospital in Vegreville, she began to visualize herself working in the field.

“No one really in my family is in healthcare, so I never saw what it was about until that event,” says Hernandez, who notes she found opportunity to suture a pork hock that day particularly interesting.

“Let’s Go Rural! really opened my eyes…. I got hooked and I started researching what I could do and what I could pursue.

Read the full story: https://loom.ly/1xAVoXY

Town Of Vegreville

11/11/2025

On this Remembrance Day, we honour the brave individuals who served our country and those who continue to serve.
From small towns to big cities, their legacy lives on in every Canadian community.

11/10/2025

🌾 Learn about Alberta’s new Rural Health Branch and the 2024–2027 Rural Health Action Plan, a strategy focused on improving rural and remote health outcomes.

Join RhPAP’s Knowledge Now Series on Nov 27, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. MST.

💻 Online | 🎟️ Free registration: https://loom.ly/jEmEAHs

Join RhPAP and special guests from the Government of Alberta for an introduction to Alberta's Rural Health Branch.

11/05/2025

📢 Rural communities — your healthcare workforce support just got stronger.

RhPAP’s new AIR Toolkit is your free, step-by-step guide to help attract, integrate, and retain healthcare professionals in rural Alberta.

💡 Designed for community members, leaders, employers, and volunteers, the toolkit offers flexible modules, downloadable tools, and real examples from rural Alberta.

Use one section or all seven, it’s built for where you are.

🔗 Explore it now: rhpap.ca/ruralcommunities/air-toolkit

11/04/2025

“Why go rural?” Because the communities need you and the support is here.

Applications for the RhPAP Rural Healthcare Student Awards are open until February 1 — up to $5,000, for up to four (medical) + six (health care) students.

Let’s make healthcare in rural Alberta stronger. 👏

Learn more and apply at RhPAP.ca/RHSA

11/03/2025

🌟 How does mentorship shape the future of rural healthcare?

Join us on Tuesday, November 4 for Knowledge Now: The Power of Preceptorship — a FREE learning event that dives into how preceptors and mentors strengthen rural communities from the inside out.

From guiding the next generation of health professionals to fostering collaboration and resilience, mentorship is the heartbeat of rural healthcare. 💚

Hear stories and insights from RhPAP and rural Alberta preceptors who are making a lasting impact.

📅 Don’t miss out — register today: https://loom.ly/xA14zcA

Join RhPAP and rural Alberta preceptors to discuss the long term impacts and benefits of facilitating preceptorship in rural communities.