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.
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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.
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.
Resource Library The Center's Resource Library features webinars, presentations, articles and toolkits developed by trusted industry leaders to guide and support rural health stakeholders.
Pressures are being felt in rural areas as the population ages, budgets tighten and the need to bend the health care cost curve increases. Given the goals and role of the Flex Program, it is imperative that state Flex Programs understand the health care system as a whole to participate in discussions and planning and to serve as a rural “voice” to ensure rural community needs are considered, represented and understood. State Flex Program proficiency in the following contribute to excellence in understanding systems of care:
Maintaining an overall knowledge of the rural health landscape
Understanding the interconnection of hospitals, clinics and long-term care
Integrating emergency medical services
Incorporating behavioral and mental health services
This guide from HRSA discusses how rural providers can work together to identify the health needs in their communities, create partnerships to address those needs, and develop a “community-minded” approach to health care.
Use the Small Rural Hospital Blueprint for Performance Excellence and Value Guide to develop and execute a comprehensive strategic plan that represents a systems approach to achieving organizational excellence.
View webinar recordings and supporting materials from a web-based learning collaborative to gain knowledge and understanding about the ways state Flex Programs can support CAHs as they transition to value-based payment and population health.
View webinar recordings and supporting materials from a web-based learning collaborative to provide education to state Flex Programs about the transition to value and how they can help support CAHs regardless of where they are in the transition to value.
This learning collaborative (LC) is intended for Flex Programs with more experience and knowledge of the transition to value. This advanced LC series takes the next step in the discussions of the previous APMs LC and covers more complex topics.
Understand the core elements of community health assessments and community health plans required of accredited public health agencies. Explore sources of public health data and ways to address the social determinants of health by working in collaboration with public health and other community-based partners.
Explore the findings from the 2020 Rural Behavioral Health Care Coordination Summit. The report offers tips on how to maximize available resources and new technology to improve efficiency in care management and transitions of care. It identifies some of the greatest barriers to care coordination and focuses on four areas of opportunity for addressing them.
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 JCREC is a stakeholder committee dedicated to advancing EMS policy to ensure access to timely, affordable and high-quality emergency care services in rural America.
This document provides information about swing beds including background, requirements that apply to both hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs), payments and resources.
This fact sheet outlines information on Rural Health Clinic services, Medicare certification, payments, visits, cost reports and annual reconciliation.
This document provides education on services furnished to eligible Medicare beneficiaries via the use of a telecommunications system, including information about originating sites, distant site practitioners, telehealth services and billing.
View a document that contains detailed information about the sole community hospital designation from CMS.
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.
Recognize health information exchange (HIE) and information blocking concepts. Understand the health information exchange direction of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT for rural hospitals and clinics. Discover initiatives shared from a rural Regional Health Information Organization. Explain how state Flex Programs could support rural health information exchange efforts.
This quarterly webinar will include updates from TASC, RQITA, FMT and FORHP, to include both the Flex Program and policies impacting critical access hospitals (CAHs).
Flex Virtual Knowledge Group (VKG) webinars provide a forum for state Flex Programs to share successes, discuss challenges, and brainstorm strategies for improvement and Flex Program excellence.
