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This Flex Virtual Knowledge Group (VKG) webinar focused on population health strategies for Flex grantees.

Define artificial intelligence and its relevance to health care. Discuss the application of it and machine learning to rural health care. Explain how to support Flex Programs in creating an awareness of artificial intelligence for their CAHs and RHCs.

In this webinar, participants will learn about issues surrounding maternal health in rural settings and explore whether small rural hospitals, rural health clinics, and communities can leverage Federally Qualified Health Centers to stabilize maternal health care access and improve outcomes.

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.

This webinar will explain this study, funded by the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, on trends and disruptors of health care, creating a roadmap that will ensure health across rural Minnesota in 2030 through elevated rural health policy.

McKenzie Health System received recognition for working on key projects such as the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model to develop a deeper relationship with patients and develop skills to improve patient health through evidence-based medicine techniques to manage chronic disorders.

Lisa Davis, the director of the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health (PORH) and a tireless advocate for rural health at both the state and national levels, was awarded the 2024 Calico Quality Leadership Award at the annual Flex Program Reverse Site Visit held in Washington, DC, on July 17-18.

Lexington Regional Health Center (LRHC), located in Lexington, Nebraska, was one of only four CAHs that received national recognition for demonstrating innovative care coordination initiatives to improve population health.

Read more about Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center's year-long engagement in RHPTP, when the hospital worked with RHPTP’s technical assistance (TA) consultants on financial and operational improvements, and on developing a strategy and infrastructure to improve patient safety in preparation for participation in alternative payment and care delivery models. 

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

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.

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

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

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

This policy brief reports the newly developed taxonomy of rural places based on relevant
population and health-resource characteristics.