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Here, SHIP State Grantees can find information to apply for and administer the Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program funds supported by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy as well

Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program allowable investments include activities that assist small rural hospitals with their value and quality improvement efforts and adaptation to changing payment systems through investments in hardware, software, and related training.

The purpose of this webinar is to provide guidance on the FY 2024 SHIP NCC Progress Report.

This SHIP Technical Assistance webinar focused on the financial and operational differences between system and independent hospitals and how those differences may be important for SHIP Coordinators to know and understand.

Learn key elements for SHIP evaluation of state and hospital activities. Increase awareness of best practices in SHIP grant reporting. Discover resources for SHIP performance management. Receive guidance of financial management of HRSA SHIP grants.

This SHIP Technical Assistance (TA) Webinar will focus on innovative and successful approaches to delivering mass education and training implemented by the Indiana State Office of Rural Health, and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine.

This SHIP Technical Assistance (TA) Webinar will focus on innovative and successful approaches to delivering mass education and training implemented by the Indiana State Office of Rural Health, and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine.

3-Part Series on the SHIP Performance Management/ Program Evaluation Guide, a publication with our partner Rochelle Spinarski, founder of Rural Health Solutions.

Learn new ways to ask questions to get the information you want. Identify ways to create comfortable experience for the patient during leader rounds. Learn ways to use the information to effectively coach staff.

Understand the core components and functionality of the chargemaster. Summarize how best practice hospitals use the chargemaster to increase reimbursement, lower denials and improve cash flow. Incorporate a culture of chargemaster accountability and ownership. Comprehend 2020 Final Rule impact on chargemaster codes and availability including 2021 prescribed changes.

Learn about successful state SHIP quality improvement (QI) investment activities, while gaining insights regarding activity goals, challenges, and best practices. This webinar will also examine how a consortium in Georgia and a network in North Dakota were developed.

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.

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

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

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

Learn how PCH is improving quality by implementing consultant recommended best practices.

RGH reported progress on all ten of their consultant recommended priorities, including a chargemaster review that resulted in a $1.4 million in collections in the first four months after updating chargemaster!

Guadalupe County Hospital surpasses their six-month SRHT goals.

Washington County Memorial Hospital in Missouri discusses ways they engaged their community to impact patient experience.