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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.

The Emergency Medical Services Assessment identifies opportunities for improvements — including gaps in clinical services and the need for improved processes to enhance the coordination of services — at health care organizations participating in the Delta Region Community Health Systems Development Program.

Columbia Basin Hospital, Columbia County Health System, Jefferson Healthcare, Newport Hospital and Health Services, Pullman Regional Hospital, and Whitman Hospital and Medical Center are recognized for an innovative, multi-state, rural palliative care initiative that includes telehealth case consultation with an interdisciplinary team.

Fulton County Medical Center (FCMC) is being recognized for the development of an innovative emergency department (ED) mental health distress response.

View details about the Spring 2025 Flex Program Introductory Workshop scheduled for April 1-3, 2025 in Rockville, Maryland. This event is intended for new Flex Program staff, including Coordinators and Directors.

Fairview Regional Medical Center (FRMC) has been recognized by the National Rural Health Resource Center for its use of innovative approaches for recruiting and retaining clinical and administrative staff.

Teryl Eisinger, Advisor, National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) was awarded the Calico Quality Leadership Award at the 2022 Flex Program Reverse Site Visit held virtually July 19-22, 2022.

Program Manager

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.

Blue Mountain Hospital has been recognized by the National Rural Health Resource Center for its use of innovative approaches to improve the organization’s financial stability.

Listen to episode four of a six-part podcast from the National Rural Health Resource Center about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its prevalence in rural America. This episode features Michelle Collins, a registered respiratory therapist at Lincoln Health, Franklin Memorial Hospital, and Central Maine Medical Center in Maine.

Program & Evaluation Advisor

Lead Program Specialist

Explain various models of care to critical access hospitals (CAH) and stakeholders. Recognize the importance of implementing new models of care in a rapidly changing health care industry. Identify resources that guide CAHs toward the implementation of new models of care

Eligible Rural Healthcare Provider Transition Project (RHPTP) applicants include small rural hospitals and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-certified rural health clinics.

The March Virtual Knowledge Group (VKG) covered program management through a finance lens and addressed such topics as implementing programs at the hospital level, finances post-public health emergency (PHE), and workforce challenges.