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Presenters discuss resources and funding sources, including the Small Rural Hospital Transition (SRHT) Project and the Rural Health Network Development Planning Program which have helped rural hospitals and communities address health care challenges.

During their year-long engagement in RHPTP, Coteau des Prairie Health Care System (CDP Health Care) worked with RHPTP’s technical assistance (TA) consultants on financial and operational improvements, to develop a strategy and infrastructure to embed quality improvement into practice. Read more about CDP's top accomplishments and early outcomes made possible through their RHPTP participation.

Lead Program Specialist

The Delta Region Community Health Systems Development (DRCHSD) Program provides comprehensive technical assistance to participating health care organizations.

This guide to Direct connectivity standards is designed to assist health care providers in understanding and implementing health information exchange using Direct protocols. It includes descriptions of technologies used, a glossary of terms and recommendations on implementing Direct.

Program Manager

Addressing outmigration takes a well-rounded and engaging approach to improving community engagement, staff, and marketing.

Attend this webinar to learn about the Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM) Program, a health care initiative designed to improve the delivery, coordination and outcomes of primary care services.

These policy models are adapted from the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Private and Secure Health Information Exchange. This framework provides several useful tools for HIE; P2 contains much of the necessary policy and procedure language needed for an HIE.

Resources related to Population Health: Outcomes and Impact Resources

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.

The “Take Your Health in the Right Direction” campaign encourages patients to be advocates for their own health. By using supporting information and statistics to reinforce what could happen if regular appointments are missed or skipped, the campaign's audience is educated — and hopefully encouraged — to be more active in these important preventative health appointments that could save their lives.

The DRCHSD Program (The Program) supports one Community Champion (CC) per selected organization to assist executive leadership with the Program goal of strengthening the local Health Care delivery system to position for population health.

Explore why rural health care providers should be engaged in the transition to value and three key areas of focus to jumpstart the transition.

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

The Telehealth Assessment identifies opportunities for telehealth implementation or expansion at health care organizations participating in the Delta Region Community Health Systems Development (DRCHSD) Program. 

Sudan Medical Clinic, located in Sudan, Texas is a family-owned clinic that opened in 2006 and expanded in 2016 serving the community in Muleshoe, Texas. SMC is a certified rural health clinic that participated in the first year of the RHPT Project with the goal to guide small rural hospitals and certified rural health clinics not currently participating in VBC to prepare for and position their organization to be effective participants in a health system focused on value. Read their progress here.