DRCHSD Webinar: Forecasting the Future

DRCHSD Webinar: Forecasting the Future

Description: The vulnerability of rural hospitals and delivery systems is not a new phenomenon. Rural delivery systems have long struggled with workforce shortages, a misalignment between reimbursement policies and the financial realities of operating hospitals and providers increases in staffing, operational, and regulatory costs, growth in acquisitions and affiliation, competition from non-hospital providers, adoption of value-based payment and managed care models, bypass issues, and the changing demographics of rural areas. Looking ahead, emerging challenges to rural delivery systems include a reduced need for inpatient beds, changing care models that emphasize non-facility-based delivery systems, and the evolution of non-traditional providers. Finally, the growing costs of health care in the United States is also triggering a renewed focus on healthcare containment. Despite the threats these challenges pose to rural delivery systems, they also present opportunities for healthcare leaders to begin to transform their systems. At the

This session will review the evidence for the current and evolving challenges facing rural delivery systems, describe the potential impact on rural providers, and identify opportunities to transform rural delivery systems in the face of these challenges by adopting a patient-centered approach to care delivery, implementing innovative team-based staffing models, exploring new clinical models, and engaging community members in accepting and supporting necessary organizational and clinical change.

Audience: Healthcare Organization C-Suite members and all those interested in the topic. 

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the current and evolving challenges on rural delivery systems and identify the potential impacts on their own hospitals, clinics, communities, and delivery systems
• Develop strategies to respond to these challenges and to transform local delivery systems
• Implement workforce and clinical transformation strategies to mitigate the impact of these challenges
• Re-align the focus of their delivery systems to emphasize comprehensive primary care
• Engage community members in the need for change and to develop support for local services

Caleb Lozinski sent out this invite to actively participating cohort members. Should you like to attend please email him directly to discuss that opportunity.