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Community & Population Health
Community support of the local health care system is vital for sustainability and growth. Learn how to create a healthier and more engaged community by working with The Center.

Health Information Technology Consulting
As the national knowledge center on rural electronic health record adoption, The Center offers comprehensive services targeted at rural hospitals, rural health clinics and state and national HIT programs.

Leadership
Success begins with strong, informed leadership. The Center offers a variety of services, on-site and remotely, to leaders to assess strengths and identify areas of useful performance improvement.

Workforce
The Center understands that rural health care facilities face unique workforce challenges. Since 1991, The Center has assisted rural citizens, health professionals, educators and policymakers with design and implementation strategies to assure the availability of quality health care.

Strategic Planning
Effective planning is critical for organizational success. Expertly facilitated services conducted by The Center’s staff of national rural health experts will help hospitals and organizations achieve this success.

Performance Improvement
The Center offers a complete spectrum of rural health performance improvement services. With support from The Center, clients succeed in aligning people, processes and resources with their mission.

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

Minnesota Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Project

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 HELP Webinar

2019 Rural Care Coordination and Population Health Summit Findings

August 27, 2019

Explore the findings from the 2019 Rural Care Coordination and Population Health Management Summit. Speakers will identify key actions that leaders and providers should take to further develop a local infrastructure that they can deliver and manage population health in the future.

Upcoming Network Development Webinar

Action Planning for Sustainability

August 28, 2019

The ongoing longevity of a grant project is dependent on the sustainability of the network. Sustainability is defined as the network’s ability to achieve desired outcomes and maintain the ability to do so over time. This webinar describes the three phases to completing a Network Sustainability Action Plan.

Upcoming Network Development Cohort Group Call

Integrating Behavioral Health: Shared Care Plans

September 10, 2019

A shared care plan combines medical and behavioral health treatment plans into a single document. These plans encourage whole person care, foster collaboration within and across clinical sites, and enhance transparency in the provider-patient relationship. Please join your peers to share and learn from others.

Upcoming Network Development Cohort Group Call

The Evolution of Remote Technology in Health Care

September 12, 2019

Remote technologies in health care, including tele-medicine, remote patient monitoring, home health monitoring, and distance learning have evolved over the past several years, aided by the rapid advancement of smart phones and high-speed internet. In this cohort call, we will share our experiences and plans for using remote technologies as well as some of the challenges and solutions that each of us have discovered.

Upcoming Webinar

Program Evaluation Guides for Flex and SHIP

September 16, 2019

Discover the new Flex and SHIP Program Evaluation guides, understand the evaluation rationale in Flex and SHIP, the design, methods for data collection, and reporting, and learn about evaluation templates, tools, and program samples.

Upcoming Network Development Cohort Group Call

Continued Engagement of Medical Partners

September 19, 2019

Continued engagement in your care coordination program is a common topic for discussion amongst those doing care coordination. This next cohort call will look at engagement from three angles including engaging providers and peers, managing leadership change, and maintaining momentum.

Upcoming Workshop

DRCHSD 2019 Summit

September 24, 2019 to September 25, 2019

The Hilton Memphis

The purpose of the DRCHSD 2019 Summit is to gather the nine participating hospitals and clinics, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Delta Regional Authority, program technical assistance providers and state partners. The two-day Summit will provide program accomplishments, rural health care information, networking and an overview of the next phase of projects.

Upcoming Workshop

FORHP Flex Program Workshop

October 1, 2019 to October 3, 2019

Pier B Resort Hotel

The goal of the FORHP Flex Program 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.

News

Network Spotlight

Community Care Alliance, a Western Health Care Alliance Company

August 2019

The Valley View Hospital (VVH) and the Community Care Alliance (CCA, Network) seek to expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of essential health care services in the rural communities in which the Network's participating providers operate or reside.

Hospital Spotlight

Mercy Health - Marcum and Wallace Hospital Invests in Swing Bed Program

August 2019

Read about Marcus & Wallace Hospital's successes in growing their swing bed program to impact their readmission rates.

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The National Rural Health Resource Center Releases A Rural Guide to Improving COPD Care

August 2019

The National Rural Health Resource Center is pleased to announce the release of a guide to support rural patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Hospital Spotlight

Roosevelt General Hospital’s Astounding Financial Turnaround

July 2019

RGH was spotlighted in January 2019 for their impressive six-month post-project progress. In April 2019, they had such amazing outcomes that we created a Video Spotlight on them!

News

Rural Health Care Leader Presented Calico Leadership Award

July 2019

John Barnas, Executive Director of the MCRH, a non-profit affiliate of Michigan State University, was awarded the Calico Leadership Award at the 2019 Flex Program Reverse Site Visit held July 10-11 in Washington, DC.

Hospital Spotlight

Coteau des Prairies (CDP) Health System: Improving Quality of Care

June 2019

Read about how CDP has improved quality infrastructure, patient satisfaction, internal communication, and physician documentation a year after their SRHT quality improvement project.

Upcoming Events

2019 Rural Care Coordination and Population Health Summit Findings

Action Planning for Sustainability

Integrating Behavioral Health: Shared Care Plans

The Evolution of Remote Technology in Health Care

Program Evaluation Guides for Flex and SHIP

Continued Engagement of Medical Partners

DRCHSD 2019 Summit

FORHP Flex Program Workshop

News

Community Care Alliance, a Western Health Care Alliance Company

Mercy Health - Marcum and Wallace Hospital Invests in Swing Bed Program

The National Rural Health Resource Center Releases A Rural Guide to Improving COPD Care

Roosevelt General Hospital’s Astounding Financial Turnaround

Rural Health Care Leader Presented Calico Leadership Award

Coteau des Prairies (CDP) Health System: Improving Quality of Care

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