Resources

The purpose of this analysis is to examine how patient-physician communication impacts readmission rates, mortality rates, and payment in various types of hospitals.

This analysis looks at how transportation options, being active, and staying healthy are related.

The aim of this analysis is to explore if relationships between homicides, motor vehicle accidents, and injuries, based on poverty rates in different counties and states.

The goal of this analysis is to figure out how long people have to wait to be seen and how many decide to leave before being seen at different hospitals.

The goal of this analysis is to delve into how socioeconomic status ties into health-related outcomes, encompassing factors like diabetes prevalence, preventable hospital stays, household income, and access to healthy food, all in relation to premature mortality.

The purpose of this analysis is to compare diabetes rates and population age for each county and state.

In this assessment, we will examine how these factors influence the comprehension of discharge instructions among hospital patients.

The objective of this analysis is to establish how poverty rates in a region relate to the frequency of preventable hospitalizations and readmissions.

In this analysis, we will explore how different variables at the county level, such as drug overdoses, excessive drinking, employment status, and health insurance coverage, are related to the rates of poor mental health days among the population.

This analysis shows that strokes are a major public health problem that affects regions and populations differently.

This report serves as a framework to inform quality in critical access hospitals, assist them in creating sustainable quality infrastructure, moving beyond mere measures, and toward organizational excellence.

Information on the pilot tests for a tool created by The Paramedic Foundation for rural ambulance services, the Community Benefit and Financial Distress Tool.

The purpose of this resource is to provide examples of analyzing claims data. Specifically, the resource offers explanations and videos on using synthetic claims data developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and instructions on acquiring and using the data.

In this video, one rural ambulance service shares the value realized in reporting and using data to improve organizational culture. They share their enhanced ability to identify improvement opportunities that move the needle on health outcomes for their patients, such as Community Paramedicine and an antibiotic protocol for sepsis.

Learn how one county in Iowa, with three independent ambulance services, completed a multi-year process to address their broken EMS system using Flex Program funding.

This policy brief reports the newly developed taxonomy of rural places based on relevant
population and health-resource characteristics.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation characterizes a Culture of Health as one in which getting healthy and staying healthy is a fundamental and guiding social value.

View presentation materials from a workshop held for state Flex Programs to provide resources for federal grant writing.