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Listen to episode five of a six-part podcast from the National Rural Health Resource Center about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its prevalence in rural America. This episode features Lindsay Corcoran and Laurie Daigle of Stroudwater Associates .

The Pulmonary Rehabilitation Campaign — with messages tied to the themes of “From Winded to Wonderful,” “Breathing is Easy. Until it’s Not.” and “Breathe Relief Into Your Life” — is designed to educate health care consumers and providers about services that can be easily accessed locally.

Strategic planning is important to the success of any program. Use these resources to help build a strategy around population health.

Learn about the DRCHSD Customizable Communications Toolkit, available for use in health care community outreach and education communications. These materials focus on communicating information and confidence in services, available to immediately download and customize. In addition, the presenters will share a recently developed vaccine communications toolkit.

Learn how one hospital expanded their primary care base to prepare for population health, and discover resources that assist providers in transitioning to value-based system.

Member | Director of Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, Minnesota Department of Health

The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) partnered with The Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center (NRTRC) to create a CAH Telehealth Guide. The guide provides practical guidance on implementing and sustaining telehealth to optimize health care delivery, expand access, and enhance care coordination.

There are many terms that are used in reference to improving clinical and non-clinical outcomes in a health care facility. Quality improvement, continuous quality improvement (CQI), quality assessment, quality assurance, and performance improvement are just a few. This one-hour webinar will explore performance measurement and quality improvement within an RHC setting with practical application tips to ensure forward momentum toward value. 

Member | Director of Health Information Technology and Strategic Initiatives, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative

Identify promising practices other state Flex programs have implemented in their states. Recognize activities state Flex programs can support to ensure critical access hospitals (CAHs) in their state are prepared for the transition to value-based payment models. Develop next steps needed to implement programs and services related to building capacity towards population health.

With assistance from the North Carolina SORH, Vidant Chowan Hospital implemented a ‘No Patient Left Behind’ transitional health program, a free service through which patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, post-acute AMI, congestive heart failure and pneumonia are helped to transition back to their home upon discharge.

This guide provides an overview of the five key concepts of Lean thinking as well as steps that should be implemented to create the ideal Lean system and Lean resources for health care organizations.

DRCHSD Clinic Webinar Series - Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Coding and Documentation

Register for the HELP webinar series to receive eight CEUs.
This webinar will introduce tools for identifying partners and creating allies within your community by recognizing all of the social drivers of health being experienced, as well as, ground you in CCC and its role in population health, provide best practices and teach you how to engage and sustain these partnerships.

DRCHSD Clinic Webinar Series: Telehealth Insights Post Public Health Emergency (PHE)

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 SHIP Technical Assistance (TA) explored SHIP activities surrounding telehealth and mobile health hardware/software. Speakers from the Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, and Washington SHIP Programs will discuss their telehealth investments and implementation experiences.