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Resources related to Population Health: Quality, Operations, and Processes Resources

America’s rural health care system faces growing challenges in accessing capital funding for essential infrastructure projects. This paper provides a historical overview of major capital funding programs and analyzes the persistent challenges that prevent rural health care providers from converting available funding into usable capital—undermining sustainability in rural health systems.

Program evaluation relies on data and analysis. Data management is essential to the success of your population's health efforts.

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.

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

Customer engagement is an important outcome of an overall learning and performance excellence strategy. Use these resources to learn more about identifying population health partners.

Resources Related to Population Health: Understanding Value-Based Models

This webinar supported by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) and coordinated by TASC, focused on the Flex Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 wrap-up, kicking off FY 2024, as well as the CAH quality assessment.

This report is designed to help rural EMS leaders and health care providers during the transition to value-based payment, providing ideas for collaboration and potential strategies to better prepare and integrate into the new value-based environment.

The MBQIP Toolkit contains resources related to the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP), which is part of the Flex Program.

Two new educational videos now available from the National Rural Health Resource Center highlight the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the country’s rural communities and the steps that critical access hospitals and other small rural hospitals can take to improve access to much-needed pulmonary rehabilitation services.

Updated April 2022, this guide provides CAH and RHC executive and management teams with concepts and guidance in developing a sliding fee scale discount program. Gain an understanding of how they relate to Internal Revenue Code Section 501(r) compliance and participation in the National Health Service Corps

The Pulmonary Rehabilitation Campaign — with messages tied to the themes of “From Winded to Wonderful,” “Breathing is Easy. Until it’s Not.” and “Breathe Relief Into Your Life” — is designed to educate health care consumers and providers about services that can be easily accessed locally.

This TASC 90 Webinar focused on financial resources for state Flex Programs.

Leaders play a central role in setting values and directions. Use these resources to help develop leadership and planning for your organization.

This webinar focused on quality improvement from the ambulance service perspective.

Working with the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program may look different for every state, but there are several competencies that strong Flex Programs have in common. The Core Competencies for Flex Program Excellence include discussions of why these competencies have been identified, what proficiencies exist within each competency, and share a core competency self-assessment to identify your program’s strengths and opportunities. Each section of the guide also includes tools and resources to help support your program.

Assess the core competencies of a rural ambulance agency to provide broader service and greater value patient care and access in rural America. This self-assessment and the associated resources will assist rural ambulance agency leaders to succeed in moving from volume to value in their agency’s culture and operations.

This guide is designed to target opportunities within the Flex Program to improve the scope of work requirements for subcontracted consultants. It will assist state programs in building greater accountability with their subcontractors to deliver more meaningful information to improve program deliverables, reporting, and demonstrating measurable program outcomes.

This Flex Virtual Knowledge Group (VKG) webinar is focused on integrating strategic planning processes into Flex Programs.