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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 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 third 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.
This fifth module will build on the ideas from previous videos to look at how the board directs others toward your vision by creating a culture of accountability and feedback.
Identify opportunities and mitigate challenges for rural safety net providers in the current state of health care policy and regulations with the everchanging environment
This final session of the 2020 Reverse Site Visit featured the Calico Quality Leadership Award presentation as well as closing remarks from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.
View a five-part webinar series that provides staff development on revenue cycle best practices to support performance improvements with front and back end revenue cycle processes as demonstrated by increased cash collection, improved charge capture, and a reduction in denials.
The “Healthcare You Can Believe In” campaign focuses on the patient experience and the important balance between trust and care that helps to solidify the place of smaller health care systems in their communities — as they combine a personal connection with compassionate care.
The Flex Program and CAHs rely on leadership and a skilled workforce to advance program goals and deliver high-quality, high-value care for patients.
This white paper provides a menu of suggested measures for the three dimensions of the Triple Aim.
The Delta Region Community Health Systems Development (DRCHSD) Program provides comprehensive technical assistance to participating hospitals and clinics.
Discusses population health, its definition, fit with the Triple Aim, mechanisms to improve it and model programs.
This presentation provides tips using examples from the Flex Program on working with subcontractors, stakeholders and partners in ways to demonstrate outcomes. The content includes a template budget tracking and program activity sheets as well as an example contract for services with a subcontractor.
A step-by-step guide for state a Flex Program to prepare for and conduct a CAH site visit.
These policy models are adapted from the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Private and Secure Health Information Exchange. This framework provides several useful tools for HIE; P2 contains much of the necessary policy and procedure language needed for an HIE.
This guide provides rural hospitals with financial strategies to survive the transition from a volume-based reimbursement methodology to a system based on value.
This presentation describes rural health networks, including why networks form, the role of networks in the transition to value, and the value of networks to Flex Programs.
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.