Community & Population Health

Rural Health Path to Value
Rural Health Innovations offers services to help you climb toward population health and improve the health status of your community.

Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA)
Work with us to set a course toward value-based payment and population health. A thorough assessment of your community's needs is the crucial first step.

Community Health Implementation Planning
We can help you to strategically build and carry out a community health implementation plan that addresses the needs identified in your CHNA.

Additional Consulting Services

Network and Partnership Development
More is possible when working together. Let us help you build bridges that lead to healthier communities.

Technical Assistance & Services Center (TASC)
TASC provides performance improvement resources to CAHs and state Flex Programs on quality, finance, operations, systems of care and population health.

Small Rural Hospital Improvement Grant Program (SHIP)
SHIP provides funding to approximately 1,600 participating hospitals in 46 participating SORHs to help small rural hospitals participate in value-based payment and care delivery models.

Delta Region Community Health Systems Development (DRCHSD) Program
The DRCHSD Program works with rural Delta communities to address health care needs and strengthen the local health care system through comprehensive technical assistance.

Rural Healthcare Provider Transition Project (RHPTP)
RHPTP guides small rural hospitals and rural health clinics to prepare for participation in alternative payment and care delivery models.

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Network Technical Assistance (TA)
RHI provides technical assistance (TA) to over 60 networks in the Development and Allied Health rural health network grant programs.

Small Rural Hospital Transition (SRHT) Project
The Small Rural Hospital Transition (SRHT) Project supports small rural hospitals nationally by providing on-site technical assistance to assist bridging the gaps between the current health care system and the newly emerging health care delivery and payment system.

Population Health Projects

Leveraging SHIP and Flex for Hospital Performance Improvement

Event Details

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

2:00pm CST

Host:

National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center)

Downloads & Links

SHIP TA Webinar: Leveraging SHIP and Flex for Hospital Performance Improvement

SHIP TA Webinar: Leveraging SHIP and Flex for Hospital Performance Improvement (YouTube Video - 55 minutes)

This SHIP Technical Assistance Webinar was focused on Leveraging your State’s SHIP and Flex Programs.

This webinar presented ideas for how State SHIP programs can maximize their efforts across SHIP and Flex programs. Discussion topics included future program planning and implementation opportunities that complement Flex and SHIP fund.

By attending this webinar, attendees were able to:

Recognize program overlap between SHIP Investment Activities and Flex program Core Areas.
Learn how to assess SHIP hospital activities and performance to plan and implement complementary work plans.
Discover approaches for State SHIP to utilize funds to foster improvement in preparation for Value-Based Purchasing, Accountable Care Organizations, and Payment Bundling through individual hospital investments or state SHIP consortiums that also further Flex Program goals in financial, operational, quality improvement, and population health.

For more information, please contact:
Caroline Bell cbell@ruralcenter.org

This project is/was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB1RH24206, Information Services to Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Grantees, $1,560,000 (0% financed with nongovernmental sources). This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.