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These resources focus on quality improvement for care transitions.

These resources focus on quality improvement for outpatient hospital services, primarily those provided in the emergency department (ED).

These resources focus on quality improvement related to the patient experience.

These resources focus on quality improvement related to patient safety and inpatient care.

Use this series of leadership tools to enable rural health care leadership teams to examine and clarify roles for achieving performance excellence during the transition to value-based health care. They are geared specifically toward administrative teams, board members and physician leaders.

An Excel-based data collection tool designed to collect participation and improvement data over one grant year to enable accurate reporting of PIMS measures at the end of the grant budget year.

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

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

The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) has launched the 2025 update to its Population Health Toolkit, which is designed to assist State Offices of Rural Health, state Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Programs and individual health care organizations as they seek to better understand, manage and improve population health in their communities and states.

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

See this profile to learn about the SHIP and Flex Program in Nebraska.

See this profile to learn about the SHIP and Flex Program in New Hampshire.

See this profile to learn about the SHIP and Flex Program in North Carolina.

See this profile to learn about the SHIP and Flex Program in Montana.

See this profile to learn about the SHIP and Flex Program in Missouri.

See this profile to learn about the SHIP and Flex Program in West Virginia.

See this profile to learn about the SHIP and Flex Program in Wyoming.

See this profile to learn about the SHIP and Flex Program in Kansas.

See this profile to learn about the SHIP and Flex Program in New Mexico.