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The Center's searchable Resource Library features articles, reports, webinars, podcasts, toolkits, and other materials developed by trusted industry leaders to guide and support rural health stakeholders.
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This collection of financial and operational resources directs you to consultant-recommended best practices and strategies for improving financial performance and increasing operational efficiencies. These tools include industry accepted key performance indicators (KPIs) for monitoring performance. Other resources include revenue cycle best practices and financial management training for both critical access hospitals (CAHs) and prospective payment system (PPS) hospitals. Implement these best practices and adopt the recommended strategies to position your hospital and/or network for the future.
This collection of resources focuses on leadership development for rural leaders from the Board through mid-level management.
The future of rural health depends on local voices, bold ideas, and shared commitment.
The March Virtual Knowledge Group (VKG) covered program management through a finance lens and addressed such topics as implementing programs at the hospital level, finances post-public health emergency (PHE), and workforce challenges.
Understand the importance of care coordination and the foundational elements of an effective program as your hospital or clinic moves forward into Value-Based Payments.
Guides to provide a brief overview and links to key documents to help rural health care professionals, practices and hospitals understand the billing code, consider the benefit to their patients and organization and begin billing for the code.
Developed specifically for rural organizations, this assessment is designed to provide a preliminary review of critical factors for organizations looking to develop, expand or enhance care coordination efforts.
Use this series of leadership tools to enable rural health care leadership teams to examine and clarify roles for achieving performance excellence during the transition to value-based health care. They are geared specifically toward administrative teams, board members and physician leaders.
Findings from the 2016 Summit has been developed to assist rural hospital leaders in engaging rural health providers in the transition to value-based purchasing and population health.
This is the first podcast in our six-part podcast leadership series, Managing from the Middle: Leading Through Change, designed for mid-level management (MLM). Learn best practices for leading through the transition to value and population health!
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Working Through Change
This is the second podcast in our six-part podcast leadership series, Managing from the Middle: Leading Through Change, designed for mid-level management (MLM). Learn best practices for leading through the transition to value and population health!
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A Leader's Role
This is the third podcast in our six-part podcast leadership series, Managing from the Middle: Leading Through Change, designed for mid-level management (MLM). Learn best practices for leading through the transition to value and population health!
This is the fourth podcast in our six-part podcast leadership series, Managing from the Middle: Leading Through Change, designed for mid-level management (MLM). Learn best practices for leading through the transition to value and population health!
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Managing Emotions During Change
This is the fifth podcast in our six-part podcast leadership series, Managing from the Middle: Leading Through Change, designed for mid-level management (MLM). Learn best practices for leading through the transition to value and population health!
This is the final podcast in our six-part podcast leadership series, Managing from the Middle: Leading Through Change, designed for mid-level management (MLM). Learn best practices for leading through the transition to value and population health!
This first module will introduce the basics of the transition to value and population health, explain the role of a board in the journey, give tips to deal with uncertainty in the transformation, and encourage boards to think about the local health care environment as a system.
This second module will help CAH boards understand their role in creating and communicating the vision. Learn the importance of systems thinking and how to incorporate the vision into planning, decisions, and interactions.
This third module will help CAH boards understand their role in creating and communicating the vision. Learn the importance of systems thinking and how to incorporate the vision into planning, decisions, and interactions.
This fourth module will help you understand the role that communication plays. Learn strategies for communicating across audiences and creating compelling messages.
This fifth module will help you understand the importance of identifying the skills and knowledge of your workforce and senior leadership need to have in order to achieve your organization’s vision.