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.
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.
Events Find information about upcoming webinars, workshops and more hosted by The Center or Rural Health Innovations.
Allied Health Webinars Find recordings and resources from recent technical assistance webinars for Rural Network Allied Health Training grantees.
Health Education and Learning Program (HELP) Webinars Eligible rural hospital leaders and staff can attend a HELP webinar to learn about current financial, operational and quality performance needs that impact their transition to the new health care environment.
Network Development Webinars Find recordings and resources from recent technical assistance webinars for Rural Health Network Development grantees.
Performance Management Group (PMG) Calls Learn from the experience of leading hospital administrators and nationally recognized field experts. PMG calls allow peer-to-peer education focused on preparing rural hospitals for new payment and care delivery models.
These resources focus on quality improvement for care transitions. The current core and additional Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP) measures that fall under this domain include:
Core
Emergency Department Transfer Communication
Additional
Discharge Planning
Medication Reconciliation
Swing Bed Care
Claims-based Measure, including reducing readmissions, complications, and hospital return days
For more information about the reporting requirements for these measures, see Data Reporting and Use.
This web page contains tools and resources for improving rural emergency department communication including data collection and quality improvement tools.
This toolkit includes an overview of the quality improvement process and how it can be applied, as well as tools and resources that can be adapted to support the transfer of critical patient information from the ED to other care settings.
This three-page brief provides history and an overview of the EDTC measure, as well as a summary of MBQIP hospital reporting and improvement for EDTC for Quarter 1, 2015 through Quarter 3, 2016.
The Preventing Avoidable Readmissions website offers information and tools for clinicians and patients to make the hospital discharge process safer and to prevent avoidable readmissions.
The Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit was developed to help reduce readmissions and post-hospital emergency department (ED) visits. This toolkit is designed to assist hospitals, particularly those that serve diverse populations, to replicate RED.
The purpose of this interactive toolkit is to help all health care providers learn to use teach-back to support patients and families throughout the care continuum, especially during transitions between settings.
This report features case studies of how three communities are working together to improve care transitions and reduce avoidable hospitalizations. The report lays out steps to encourage and promote the creation of comparable multi-sector innovative communities that would involve local providers as well as consumers and caregivers.
MATCH toolkit for Medication Reconciliation incorporates the experiences and lessons learned by health care facilities that have implemented MATCH strategies to improve their medication reconciliation processes for patients as they move through health care settings.
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, $1,205,000 (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 the return on investment (ROI) of population health. Recall different scenarios from the Population Health Toolkit and how to use them. Discuss the purpose and benefits of the Population Health Readiness Assessment to CAHs and other safety net providers.
Explore the MBQIP Fundamentals Guide for State Flex Programs and understand how to use it. Review available resources to support MBQIP at the state and hospital level. Understand the role of RQITA and services available to support your work. Discuss additional MBQIP resource and support needs and requests.
A webinar to review the EDTC measure, including revisions that start with January 1, 2020 encounters. The webinar is being offered on three dates with each session being the same. Registration will be made available the first week in December via the MBQIP Monthly newsletter and this event page.
