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RPH uses their RHPI business office assessment project and shares outcomes and next steps.

Abbeville Area Medical Center has been a leader in the state of South Carolina for Hospital Compare and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers (HCAHPS).

Boon County Hospital (BCH) demonstrated excellence in quality initiatives with documented outcomes. BCH actively participated in the Partnership for Patients as well as many other quality initiatives.

Speare Memorial Hospital (SMH) implemented Lean and Six Sigma training methods, which have fostered a hospital-wide performance improvement infrastructure. SMH also established a Transition Care Program to allow care transition nurses to continue to follow their patients' post-hospital care at their homes.

Fairview Hospital was a recipient of the CAH Recognition Certificate for quality improvement and demonstrated quality initiatives.

JMC shares outcomes and next steps about their RHPI case management project.

MMC shares their experience and outcomes from their RHPI Strategic, Financial and Operational Assessment.

This project helped to provide assistance with evaluating clinical processes that impact the revenue cycle, prioritize needs, develop action plans based on the identified needs and implement a plan to improve clinical processes and thus the revenue cycle.

MCH shares their RHPI project's outcomes and future direction.

MBC shares outcomes and next steps from their RHPI Strategic Planning and Benchmarking project .

View a list of resources related to electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) reporting that is intended to aid CAHs seeking to meet the reporting requirements for the Promoting Interoperability Program, formerly the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. This list will be regularly updated to reflect new resources as they become available.

In this module, we’re going to take a broad look at your health care organization and help you think about how you and your team contribute to its long-term success. We’ll also explore the ways you impact culture and relationships through your daily interactions with others. 

In this module, we’re going to explore ways that you can work to influence the behavior of those on your team. We’ll share best practices for communicating expectations, giving and receiving feedback, and recognizing others.

In this module, we’re going to dig into some things that are hard for many of us: Communication, conflict, and difficult conversations. We’ll look at what it means to be a collaborative communicator and share tips for becoming a better listener, keeping conflict constructive, and having difficult conversations.

In this module, we’re going to dive into the topic of change. We’ll talk about common experiences that people have through the course of change. We’ll talk about specific things you can do as a leader of change to smooth the process and help others through the transition – and help yourself as well.

In this module, we’ll explore what it means to engage your team and share some strategies for strengthening engagement by developing your team’s knowledge and skills, making collaborative decisions, and building a strong team identity.

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.

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 .

This Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Performance Management and Evaluation Guide aims to support Flex Program Coordinators towards incorporating performance management into program operations, leading towards program improvement and evaluation.

The guide for state Flex Programs contains relevant and practical recommendations and tools to strengthen staff engagement and retention through the Staff Sustainability Cycle described within, which consists of recruiting, onboarding, learning and development, engagement and retention, and succession planning.