Resources

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 provides background on the importance of Post-Acute Care (PAC), the process used to gather Summit findings, comprehensive lists of identified strategies and tactics to address high priority rural PAC issues, discussion notes on how state Flex Programs can help rural providers address PAC, a collection of PAC best practices from the field, a Summit participant list, and more.

This Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP) Pricing Transparency Guide aims to support SHIP Coordinators, along with their hospitals and local partners, to navigate the Price Transparency Rule of November 15, 2019.

This toolkit from the CDC Foundation aims to ensure that public health agencies and officials are equipped to communicate important information about the COVID-19 pandemic and help individuals understand steps they can take to address this public health emergency and slow the spread of the virus throughout the United States.

View a five-part webinar series that provides staff development on revenue cycle best practices to support performance improvements with front and back end revenue cycle processes as demonstrated by increased cash collection, improved charge capture, and a reduction in denials.

The “Healthcare You Can Believe In” campaign focuses on the patient experience and the important balance between trust and care that helps to solidify the place of smaller health care systems in their communities — as they combine a personal connection with compassionate care.

The “Take Your Health in the Right Direction” campaign encourages patients to be advocates for their own health. By using supporting information and statistics to reinforce what could happen if regular appointments are missed or skipped, the campaign's audience is educated — and hopefully encouraged — to be more active in these important preventative health appointments that could save their lives.

The “Anywhere Care” campaign makes use of the word "virtually" in two different ways: referring to a real-time, remote meeting that's often considered "virtual" and as an adverb, speaking to the nearly limitless locations patients can choose from when they access care via telehealth.

The “Between Healing and Home” campaign highlights the additional recovery time that swing bed/transitional care services provide patients and notes that, even though it’s an extra step, the additional care can actually shorten recovery time.

2021 Value-Based Care (VBC) webinar series will provide hospital and clinic teams with education regarding the transition to VBC.

2021 DRCHSD Patient Experience Webinar series focuses on improving and maintaining an excellent patient experience

This is the first podcast in our Rural Minnesota Path to Value Mini-Podcast Series. The basics of population health and social determinants of health are applicable to everyone that works in a hospital. Use these 10-minute podcasts during departmental/staff meetings or share as applicable.

Updated April 2022, this guide provides CAH and RHC executive and management teams with concepts and guidance in developing a sliding fee scale discount program. Gain an understanding of how they relate to Internal Revenue Code Section 501(r) compliance and participation in the National Health Service Corps

This report provides key operational strategies that providers may deploy to be successful in alternative payment models and highlights success stories.

Findings from the 2016 Summit has been developed to assist rural hospital leaders in engaging rural health providers in the transition to value-based purchasing and population health.

An Excel-based data collection tool designed to collect participation and improvement data over one grant year to enable accurate reporting of PIMS measures at the end of the grant budget year.

Learn about one hospital’s experience, successes and next steps in preparing for population health, and discover resources that assist providers in transitioning to value-based system.

The purpose of the Summit was to identify strategies for rural provider engagement in transitioning to value-based reimbursement systems. A report with the findings of the Summit has been developed to assist rural hospital leaders in engaging rural health providers in the transition to value-based purchasing and population health. This report is designed to help rural hospitals leaders and providers during the transition.

Leadership tools are a guide to assist with identifying the best structure in which to manage your ICD-10 implementation for the best results. We encourage providers to manage this effort as a program due to the complexity of the project.