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.
Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA) Work with us to set a course toward value-based payment and population health. A thorough assessment of your community's needs is the crucial first step.
Community Health Implementation Planning We can help you to strategically build and carry out a community health implementation plan that addresses the needs identified in your CHNA.
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Network and Partnership Development More is possible when working together. Let us help you build bridges that lead to healthier communities.
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.
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.
Resource Library The Center's Resource Library features webinars, presentations, articles and toolkits developed by trusted industry leaders to guide and support rural health stakeholders.
This tool provides users the ability to extract data and interact with a dashboard that uses data from multiple federal, publicly available datasets for population health planning. The toolkit also provides users with educational resources about working with the datasets in Microsoft Excel and Tableau Public.
Participation in the IBH program included a one-year follow-up to discuss successes and challenges. Through a series of four calls for each hospital over the year, practices were identified that were most often associated with success in the program. These promising practices are listed below.
Participate in a discussion that explores workforce and workflow challenges related to integrating behavioral health. Carrie Cadwell, PsyD, HSPP and CEO of Four County Counseling Center in Indiana, will facilitate the call. This is a follow-up to small group discussions during the All Program Meeting Cohort launch.
Behavioral Health plays a key role in bringing diverse organizations and community members together toward the common goals of meaningful and effective learning and innovative problem-solving. Build your skills and gain tools to allow engagement and innovation within your community.
Identify the stigma of mental illnesses in ourselves and as it relates to our patients, family, coworkers, and others. Learn unique and non-traditional ways communities can create educational opportunities for stigma reduction/elimination.
Learn about the major components needed to develop an “oxy-free ED” and implement a plan for managing patients seeking narcotic prescription medications in the emergency department.
Listeners will identify signs of stigma towards behavioral health in their own organization and learn tools to use to address stigma within their organization.
This webinar will provide you information on who can provide behavioral health services in Minnesota as it relates to Medicaid (MA) and state and federal grants, as well as discuss reimbursement rates. The webinar will provide links to resources for future use by providers.
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.
The Center for Integrated Health Solutions provides examples, models business case information, resources, webinars and videos to support the integration of behavioral health into the primary care setting.
The Academy web portal offers resources to advance the integration of behavioral health and primary care. It offers an environment for dialogue, discussion and sharing of experience from those working in the field.
Focuses on mental health in rural areas and helps health and human services providers develop, maintain and expand in rural communities. Also highlights challenges and issues in mental health care delivery, including workforce shortages, access, anonymity, stigma, integration of mental health services into primary care and suicide prevention.
This technical assistance brief examines effective strategies for including community health workers in complex care teams drawing from the experiences of organizations participating in transoformative care iniativies.
Learn about integrating behavioral health with primary care services, the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) and how to bill for behavioral health integration services.
This interactive flow chart with helpful resources will help to walk through questions to consider when integrating behavioral health into a primary care system.
This set of toolkits aims to assist organizations and providers with the integration of behavioral health care into their settings. The toolkits include interactive resources, guides and assessments.
In this episode of Rural Health Leadership Radio we are talking about the relationship of healthcare and agriculture with a special focus on mental health with today’s guest, Charlotte Halverson. Charlotte serves as the Clinical Director for AgriSafe.
Listen to this webinar to learn, one model for developing a stigma elimination effort; key elements for a successful initiative; how to measure effectiveness (culture change); and lessons learned.
This project is supported by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number H54RH00023. The information, conclusions and opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and no endorsement by FORHP, HRSA or HHS is intended or should be inferred.
This virtual learning collaborative (LC) will focus on challenges and solutions specific to rural health providers to support improvement in health equity and reduction in health disparities. This interactive collaborative will include four (4) virtual, 60-minute learning sessions and additional brief readings and/or reflections between sessions to support understanding of disparities and strategies to address them.