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.
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.
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 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.
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.
The goal of the Flex Program Workshop is to provide new or existing Flex Program staff and state office of rural health directors an orientation to the Flex Program. This workshop will cover multiple topics relevant to the Flex Program.
