Resources

The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) partnered with The Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center (NRTRC) to create a CAH Telehealth Guide. The guide provides practical guidance on implementing and sustaining telehealth to optimize health care delivery, expand access, and enhance care coordination.

This guide is designed to assist rural communities in navigating a change from unsustainable volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) and ambulance service models to those that are sustainable. It includes information on how to assess if a community has an EMS problem and a six-step process to implement change.

The Summit was held to provide leaders with templates that improve organizational planning, strengthen actionable steps and operationalize key strategies to effectively transition to value.

Learn how one hospital expanded their primary care base to prepare for population health, and discover resources that assist providers in transitioning to value-based system.

Presenters discuss resources and funding sources, including the Small Rural Hospital Transition (SRHT) Project and the Rural Health Network Development Planning Program which have helped rural hospitals and communities address health care challenges.

Access information about the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Flex Grant Supplement reporting and evaluation process. Materials include webinar playbacks and templates, reporting. and Recommendation Adoption Progress (RAP) interview orientation.

These podcasts compliment the one-hour webinar playback and slides. Use the first two podcasts to help educate frontline staff in meetings and trainings. The third podcast is a coaching model that leadership can use to close the loop of accountability.

This toolkit includes a survey of available resources from various governmental and non-profit organizations. It includes checklists and tools that are appropriate for all audiences, hospitals or clinics, including those in a rural setting.

Provides an overview of SHIP for new SHIP Coordinators.

This report is designed to help rural hospital and clinic leaders meet the transition to value-based payment with financial success by identifying the key financial indicators and strategies. It also highlights success stories and resources.

View week one webinar recordings and supporting materials related to a web-based learning collaborative to gain knowledge and understanding about the ways state Flex Programs can support CAHs as they transition to value-based payment and population health.

View a summary of SRHT hospital outcomes from 2014 through 2017.

A series of five webinar recordings with rural hospitals and experts guiding them through a process to use the downloadable, pre-filled templates to develop and tailor their own Balanced Scorecard (BSC) & Strategy Map. The recordings also include educational slides from our subject matter experts and facilitated hospital discussion.

Listen to episode one of a six-part podcast from the National Rural Health Resource Center about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its prevalence in rural America. This episode features Grace Anne Dorney Koppel, Dorney-Koppel Foundation, COPD patient.

Listen to episode two of a six-part podcast from the National Rural Health Resource Center about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its prevalence in rural America. This episode features Paul Moore, Pharmacist, Executive Secretary, National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services, Senior Health Policy Advisor, FORHP.

Listen to episode three of a six-part podcast from the National Rural Health Resource Center about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its prevalence in rural America. This episode features Dan Doyle, MD, a physician at New River Health Association, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in West Virginia.

The purpose of the Telehealth Assessment is to identify strategies and develop tactics that outline opportunities for performance improvement in the organizations’ provisions of telehealth services.

Listen to episode four of a six-part podcast from the National Rural Health Resource Center about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its prevalence in rural America. This episode features Michelle Collins, a registered respiratory therapist at Lincoln Health, Franklin Memorial Hospital, and Central Maine Medical Center in Maine.

EMS assists communities with ensuring access to, and availability of, emergency care. The DRCHSD Program goal is to help create a local coordinated system of care that includes community joint partners working in collaboration with first responders and leaders for our participating health care organizations.

Listen to episode five of a six-part podcast from the National Rural Health Resource Center about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its prevalence in rural America. This episode features Lindsay Corcoran and Laurie Daigle of Stroudwater Associates .