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.
Community Health Implementation Planning We can help you to strategically build and carry out a community health implementation plan that addresses the needs identified in your CHNA.
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Network and Partnership Development More is possible when working together. Let us help you build bridges that lead to healthier communities.
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.
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.
Resource Library The Center's Resource Library features webinars, presentations, articles and toolkits developed by trusted industry leaders to guide and support rural health stakeholders.
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.
Learn how RCH expanded primary care base with new providers and extended hours, as well as created new services to align with their local providers and meet community needs.
A rural hospital discusses recent participation in a high performing ACO which increased hospital revenue and helped its ACO achieve $11M dollars in shared savings.
The team from North Sunflower Medical Center talks about their role in forming the Mississippi Diabetes Telehealth Network and the steps they've taken in moving their community toward population health.
Hear how the SRHT Project consultants assisted executive and management teams with implementing best practices and developing transition strategies to position the hospital for new payment and care delivery models.
Chicot Memorial Hospital and Pender Community Hospital share their transition strategies from their FOA through the SRHT Project. Hospital CEOs give advice to other rural hospital leaders that are planning to prepare for transitioning to a value-based system.
Rural Hospital leaders share their experiences in completing a SRHT Project and discuss how they have adopted care management best practices to improve quality and patient safety.
Speakers share successes and lessons learned from GCH’s SRHT QI project. Speakers discuss next steps to improve transition of care processes and prepare for better community care coordination, as well as strategies in continuing to move towards population health management and the new health care delivery models of the future.
Hear lessons learned from MDMC's project in preparing for a new payment and care delivery model. Next steps are in continuing to move toward the new health care environment and participation in a shared savings plan and/or ACO are discussed.
Hospital leaders share their approaches to improving quality of care processes and why they are implementing best practices now to prepare for value-based purchasing.
Hear what challenges rural hospitals are facing with regards to population health planning. Union General Hospital shares how they used results from their CHNA to target and initiate a local wellness program. ICAHN Director discusses steps that IL hospitals took to respond to the ACA and prepare for value-based reimbursement.
PCH Executive team shares their experience in developing a strategic plan and Balanced Scorecard. The team highlights how they concentrated on building leadership skills while creating a positive work environment to successfully implement a strategic plan and further enhance performance improvement.
Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital and Washington County Hospital discuss financial challenges rural hospitals are facing andexplain their strategies for how they plan to prepare for a future payment system that is based on value.
JMC executive teams share their experience in completing a quality improvement project targeting care management and how they plan to prepare for value-based purchasing.
This project is/was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB1RH24206, Information Services to Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Grantees, $1,560,000 (0% financed with nongovernmental sources). This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.