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Community & Population Health

Rural Health Path to Value
Rural Health Innovations offers services to help you climb toward population health and improve the health status of your community.

Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA)
Work with us to set a course toward value-based payment and population health. A thorough assessment of your community's needs is the crucial first step.

Additional Consulting Services

Network and Partnership Development
More is possible when working together. Let us help you build bridges that lead to healthier communities.

Strategic Planning, Leadership, and Workforce
The Center offers a variety of services to help with Strategic Planning, Leadership, Workforce, and Performance Improvement.

Technical Assistance & Services Center (TASC)
TASC provides performance improvement resources to CAHs and state Flex Programs on quality, finance, operations, systems of care and population health.

Small Rural Hospital Improvement Grant Program (SHIP)
SHIP provides funding to approximately 1,600 participating hospitals in 46 participating SORHs to help small rural hospitals participate in value-based payment and care delivery models.

Delta Region Community Health Systems Development (DRCHSD) Program
The DRCHSD Program works with rural Delta communities to address health care needs and strengthen the local health care system through comprehensive technical assistance.

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Network Technical Assistance (TA)
RHI provides technical assistance (TA) to over 60 networks in the Development and Allied Health rural health network grant programs.

Small Rural Hospital Transition (SRHT) Project
The Small Rural Hospital Transition (SRHT) Project supports small rural hospitals nationally by providing on-site technical assistance to assist bridging the gaps between the current health care system and the newly emerging health care delivery and payment system.

Population Health Projects

Events
Find information about upcoming webinars, workshops and more hosted by The Center or Rural Health Innovations.

Allied Health Webinars
Find recordings and resources from recent technical assistance webinars for Rural Network Allied Health Training grantees.

Health Education and Learning Program (HELP) Webinars
Eligible rural hospital leaders and staff can attend a HELP webinar to learn about current financial, operational and quality performance needs that impact their transition to the new health care environment.

Network Development Webinars
Find recordings and resources from recent technical assistance webinars for Rural Health Network Development grantees.

Performance Management Group (PMG) Calls
Learn from the experience of leading hospital administrators and nationally recognized field experts. PMG calls allow peer-to-peer education focused on preparing rural hospitals for new payment and care delivery models.

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Upcoming Events

Upcoming Webinar

Professional Development: Elevating your role as a communicator in your organization

October 29, 2020

In this second webinar of the 8-part series, Communication Strategies for Community Outreach and Education, learn to elevate your role as a communicator in your organization.

Upcoming Webinar

Price Transparency Guide

November 4, 2020

This SHIP Technical Assistance (TA) Webinar will focus on the new Price Transparency Guide scheduled for publication on November 4, 2020. The webinar will cover the Pricing Transparency Guide, resources, and templates.

Upcoming Webinar

Planning 101: Maximize your limited communications budget

November 5, 2020

In this third webinar of the 8-part series, Communication Strategies for Community Outreach and Education, learn how to maximize your communications budget.

Upcoming TASC 90 Webinar

Integration of Rural Health Clinics and Hospitals

November 5, 2020

Discuss the benefits of integration of primary care and rural hospitals, particularly regarding population health, value payment, and care coordination work. Explain how rural health networks enhance patient care, integrate services, and support the health of the people in their service areas.

Upcoming Workshop

FORHP Flex Program Virtual Workshop

November 9, 2020 to November 16, 2020

The goal of the FORHP Flex Program Virtual Workshop is to provide new or existing Flex Program staff an orientation to the Flex Program. Attendance at this event is open only to state Flex grantees.

Upcoming Webinar

Know Your Audience: Strategies to customize messages based on generational and cultural backgrounds

November 12, 2020

In this fourth webinar of the 8-part series, Communication Strategies for Community Outreach and Education, learn to customize messages based on generational and cultural backgrounds.

Upcoming MBQIP Virtual Knowledge Group

November MBQIP Virtual Knowledge Group

November 19, 2020

MBQIP VKGs provide a networking opportunity for state Flex Programs and subcontractors. Topics for discussion are determined based on MBQIP Data Reports, technical assistance trends and requests.

Upcoming Webinar

Digital 101: How to build relationships and loyalty with your community

November 19, 2020

In this fifth webinar of the 8-part series, Communication Strategies for Community Outreach and Education, learn to build relationships and loyalty with your community.

Upcoming Webinar

How to Communicate Who You Truly Are as an Organization

December 3, 2020

In this sixth webinar of the 8-part series, Communication Strategies for Community Outreach and Education, learn to develop an image that aligns with your organization’s vision and future growth strategy.

Upcoming Webinar

Telehealth as the New Norm: Strategies to build understanding and acceptance internally and externally

December 10, 2020

In this seventh webinar of the 8-part series, Communication Strategies for Community Outreach and Education, learn effective messaging and techniques for your telehealth communications.

Upcoming Webinar

What’s Your 2021 Story? The Art of Storytelling

December 17, 2020

In this eighth and final webinar of the 8-part series, Communication Strategies for Community Outreach and Education, you’ll leave inspired and energized to go out and tell the story of your rural health organization.

News

NEW! Rural Behavioral Health Care Coordination Summit Findings

September 2020

This new report offers tips on how to maximize available resources and new technology to improve efficiency in care management and transitions of care. It identifies some of the greatest barriers to care coordination and focuses on four areas of opportunity for addressing them.

Hospital Spotlight

Blue Mountain Strengthens Community Partnerships Amidst the Pandemic

September 2020

Blue Mountain Hospital (BMH) is an 11-bed not-for-profit, Critical Access Hospital (CAH) providing acute care, obstetrics, swing bed, emergency medicine, surgery, dialysis, and related outpatient ancillary services to the residents of Blanding, Utah and surrounding communities.

Hospital Spotlight

Cibola General Hospital Pushes Forward

September 2020

Cibola General Hospital (CGH) located in Grants, NM, is a 25-bed, not-for-profit, Critical Access Hospital (CAH) providing acute care, obstetrics, ICU, emergency medicine, surgery, and related outpatient ancillary services to residents of Grants, NM and surrounding communities.

News

Rural Health Care Leader Presented Calico Leadership Award

August 2020

John Gale, Senior Research Associate and Director of Policy Engagement at the Maine Rural Health Research Center, and a Co-Principle Investigator of the Flex Monitoring Team, was awarded the Calico Leadership Award at the 2020 Flex Program Reverse Site Visit.

Critical Access Hospital Recognition

Lexington Regional Health Center, Lexington, Nebraska

August 2020

Lexington Regional Health Center (LRHC), located in Lexington, Nebraska, was one of only four critical access hospitals that received national recognition for demonstrating innovative care coordination initiatives to improve population health.

Critical Access Hospital Recognition

Lincoln County Medical Center, Ruidoso, New Mexico

July 2020

Lincoln County Medical Center (LCMC), located in Ruidoso, New Mexico, was one of only four critical access hospitals (CAH) that earned national recognition for demonstrating innovative care coordination initiatives to improve population health.

Upcoming Events

Professional Development: Elevating your role as a communicator in your organization

Price Transparency Guide

Planning 101: Maximize your limited communications budget

Integration of Rural Health Clinics and Hospitals

FORHP Flex Program Virtual Workshop

Know Your Audience: Strategies to customize messages based on generational and cultural backgrounds

November MBQIP Virtual Knowledge Group

Digital 101: How to build relationships and loyalty with your community

How to Communicate Who You Truly Are as an Organization

Telehealth as the New Norm: Strategies to build understanding and acceptance internally and externally

What’s Your 2021 Story? The Art of Storytelling

News

NEW! Rural Behavioral Health Care Coordination Summit Findings

Blue Mountain Strengthens Community Partnerships Amidst the Pandemic

Cibola General Hospital Pushes Forward

Rural Health Care Leader Presented Calico Leadership Award

Lexington Regional Health Center, Lexington, Nebraska

Lincoln County Medical Center, Ruidoso, New Mexico

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