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Community & Population Health

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.

Healthy Community Bundle
Community-focused services including CHNA, focus groups, and implementation planning.

Additional Consulting Services

Strategic Planning, Leadership, and Workforce
The Center offers a variety of services to help with Strategic Planning, Leadership, Workforce, and Performance Improvement.

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.

Delta Region Community Health Systems Development (DRCHSD) Program
The DRCHSD Program works with rural Delta communities to address health care needs and strengthen the local health care system through comprehensive technical assistance.

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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.

Population Health Projects

Minnesota Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Project

Events
Find information about upcoming webinars, workshops and more hosted by The Center or Rural Health Innovations.

Allied Health Webinars
Find recordings and resources from recent technical assistance webinars for Rural Network Allied Health Training grantees.

Health Education and Learning Program (HELP) Webinars
Eligible rural hospital leaders and staff can attend a HELP webinar to learn about current financial, operational and quality performance needs that impact their transition to the new health care environment.

Network Development Webinars
Find recordings and resources from recent technical assistance webinars for Rural Health Network Development grantees.

Performance Management Group (PMG) Calls
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.

Rural Health Innovations enhances the health of rural communities by providing products and services with a focus on excellence and innovation.

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Upcoming Events

Upcoming HELP Webinar

Finding the Value in Your Revenue Cycle

January 15, 2020

Increase understanding of a hospital's revenue cycle from the beginning to the end. Gain practical insight on revenue cycle leading practices such as denials management, revenue integrity, and clinical documentation improvement.

Upcoming SRHT Learning Collaborative

2019-20 Eligible LC: Using Self-Assessment Results to Initiate Strategic Planning

January 22, 2020

This LC webinar is for pre-selected SRHT eligible hospital leadership teams only. In this first Learning Collaborative (LC) webinar, hospital teams will learn how to use self-assessment findings to initiate strategic planning and the development of a Strategy Map.

Upcoming HELP Webinar

340B Program: A Prescription for Success

February 20, 2020

Gain insight about ways to maintain compliance while optimizing the 340B Drug Pricing Program. Understand possible impact of potential legislative and CMS changes to the 340B Drug Pricing Program.

Upcoming SRHT Learning Collaborative

2019-20 Eligible LC: Strategy Map Development

February 26, 2020

This LC webinar is for pre-selected SRHT eligible hospital leadership teams only. In this second Learning Collaborative (LC) webinar, hospital teams will be prepped to finalize their Strategy Maps and the key to successfully operationalizing key transition strategies.

Upcoming SRHT Learning Collaborative

2019-20 Selected Hospitals LC: Using Self-Assessment Results to Initiate Strategic Planning

March 12, 2020

This LC webinar is for pre-selected SRHT hospital leadership teams only. In this first Learning Collaborative (LC) webinar, hospital teams will learn how to use self-assessment findings to initiate strategic planning and the development of a Strategy Map.

Upcoming SRHT Learning Collaborative

2019-20 Eligible LC: Balanced Scorecard Development

March 25, 2020

This LC webinar is for pre-selected SRHT eligible hospital leadership teams only. In this third Learning Collaborative (LC) webinar, hospital teams will be prepped to develop their Balanced Scorecards.

Upcoming SRHT Learning Collaborative

2019-20 Eligible LC: Demonstrate Value and Position for the Future

April 29, 2020

This LC webinar is for pre-selected SRHT eligible hospital leadership teams only. In this fourth and final Learning Collaborative (LC) webinar, hospital teams will learn how to demonstrate the value of the hospital for long-term success in new payment and delivery models

Upcoming SRHT Learning Collaborative

2019-20 SRHT Selected Hospitals LC: Strategy Map Development

May 14, 2020

Upcoming SRHT Learning Collaborative

2019-20 SRHT Selected Hospitals LC: Balanced Scorecard Development

July 16, 2020

Upcoming SRHT Learning Collaborative

2019-20 SRHT Selected Hospitals LC: Demonstrate Value and Position for the Future

August 13, 2020

News

Hospital Spotlight

Russell County Hospital Listens to their Community to Improve Transitions of Care

September 2019

Russell County Hospital reports positive outcomes from their SRHT Quality Improvement and Transitions of Care project.

Hospital Spotlight

Mercy Health - Marcum and Wallace Hospital Invests in Swing Bed Program

August 2019

Read about Marcus & Wallace Hospital's successes in growing their swing bed program to impact their readmission rates.

Hospital Spotlight

Roosevelt General Hospital’s Astounding Financial Turnaround

July 2019

RGH was spotlighted in January 2019 for their impressive six-month post-project progress. In April 2019, they had such amazing outcomes that we created a Video Spotlight on them!

Hospital Spotlight

Coteau des Prairies (CDP) Health System: Improving Quality of Care

June 2019

Read about how CDP has improved quality infrastructure, patient satisfaction, internal communication, and physician documentation a year after their SRHT quality improvement project.

Video

Video Spotlight on Roosevelt General Hospital

June 2019

Roosevelt General Hospital, located in Portales, New Mexico, shares ways they utilized the recommendations from their SRHT Financial Operational Assessment and the significant impact it had on their finances, growth & expansion, patient satisfaction, staffing model, behavioral health access, and much more!

News

New Tool to Create or Update Your Strategy Map and BSC!

May 2019

NEW! 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.

Upcoming Events

Finding the Value in Your Revenue Cycle

2019-20 Eligible LC: Using Self-Assessment Results to Initiate Strategic Planning

340B Program: A Prescription for Success

2019-20 Eligible LC: Strategy Map Development

2019-20 Selected Hospitals LC: Using Self-Assessment Results to Initiate Strategic Planning

2019-20 Eligible LC: Balanced Scorecard Development

2019-20 Eligible LC: Demonstrate Value and Position for the Future

2019-20 SRHT Selected Hospitals LC: Strategy Map Development

2019-20 SRHT Selected Hospitals LC: Balanced Scorecard Development

2019-20 SRHT Selected Hospitals LC: Demonstrate Value and Position for the Future

News

Russell County Hospital Listens to their Community to Improve Transitions of Care

Mercy Health - Marcum and Wallace Hospital Invests in Swing Bed Program

Roosevelt General Hospital’s Astounding Financial Turnaround

Coteau des Prairies (CDP) Health System: Improving Quality of Care

Video Spotlight on Roosevelt General Hospital

New Tool to Create or Update Your Strategy Map and BSC!

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