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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.

This SHIP webinar event on Cybersecurity is supported by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) and coordinated by SHIP-TA, a program of the National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center).

This event will provide detailed information about the Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP), which supports rural hospitals to improve financial stability and to enhance or develop services that meet community needs and keep care close to home. RHSP is supported by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy and administered by the National Rural Health Resource Center.

Eight hospitals have been selected to participate in the first cohort of the Rural Hospital Stabilization Program, a new federal initiative designed to provide in-depth technical assistance to rural hospitals, helping them develop or enhance health care services that meet community needs and keep care close to home.

The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) has named Thomas Schumacher, a health care executive with extensive experience building sustainable hospital programs that prioritize patient outcomes, community well-being and workforce engagement, as the director of the Rural Hospital Stabilization Program, a new federal initiative designed to help rural hospitals improve their financial stability by enhancing or expanding health care services.

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.

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.

Guadalupe County Hospital surpasses their six-month SRHT goals.

Monroe County Hospital completed a Quality of Care and Transition of Care SHRT Project in 2016. Read about their progress on this project.

The Flex Program Forum is for content related to the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program and rural health care.

This page contains information about eligibility and the application process for the Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP)

Review the process the Rural Hospital Stabilization Program uses to analyze applications and select hospitals to participate.

View the hospitals selected to participate in the Rural Hospital Stabilization Program.

Access the answers to questions frequently asked about the Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP).

This page lays out the program expectations and roles of hospitals selected to participate in the Rural Hospital Stabilization Programs.