Stay ConnectedThe National Rural Health Resource Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to sustaining and improving health care in rural communities.
As the nation’s leading technical assistance and knowledge center in rural health, The Center focuses on five core areas:
-Transition to Value and Population Health
-Collaboration and Partnership
-Performance Improvement
-Health Information Technology
-Workforce
The Finance 101 manual has been recently updated! This new manual expands on the former manual that was focused solely on Critical Access Hospitals. The new manual not only includes updates for the Critical Access Hospital but is expanded to include information and guidance for small rural PPS hospitals and rural health clinics. This session will provide an overview of the updates and how Critical Access Hospitals, small rural PPS providers and rural health clinics can utilize the information in this manual for their organizations.
ObjectivesThe core mission of public health has consistently been to reduce the leading causes of preventable death and disability, with a special emphasis on reducing health disparities in underserved populations. Health departments, however, have varied in the extent to which they have adapted their practices to address the growing incidence of chronic disease, drug abuse, and suicide, now the leading causes of premature death in most rural communities in the United States.
As hospitals are increasingly focusing on quality and outcomes, including the health status of their communities, they should seek out opportunities to partner with local, regional and state public health agencies. The core public health functions of informatics and mobilization of community-based partnerships are also critical to hospitals that are seeking to improve the health of their communities.
In this session participants will learn:
This TASC 90 webinar recording will include updates from the Technical Assistance and Services Center (TASC), Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance (RQITA), the Flex Monitoring Team (FMT) and the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), to include both the Flex Program and policies impacting critical access hospitals.
Learning Objectives:
This year's Network Technical Assistance (TA) Assessment was designed to measure your perceptions of your network's efforts and activities as they relate to specific characteristics of a sustainable network.
In this webinar, we'll take a look at the results of the Network Sustainability assessment and explore what they tell us about how we are doing as a cohort, aiming for sustainability. We'll also spend some time in virtual roundtable discussions where you can share specific challenges and successes you've experienced in the past year and offer input about additional resources and tools that RHI can provide to continue supporting you on the path to sustainability.
Through small group discussions regarding integrating behavioral health at the All Program Meeting Cohort launch in early March, multiple ideas and challenges were raised. Integrating Behavioral Health with primary care is a critical component within many Network Development projects, and many grantees reported challenges associated with workforce and workflows in the course of their work.
Our conversation from our first Cohort Call continues through a presentation from Dr. Carrie Cadwell, Psy D, HSPP, CEO of Four County Counseling Center in Indiana. In this presentation, Dr. Cadwell addresses some commonly reported workforce- and workflow-related challenges faced by those working to integrate behavioral health into primary care.
Your network has already created a strategic plan for your grant project and an evaluation plan allowing you to gauge progress toward your goals. At this point in your project, it's the right time to continue your network's path to sustainability by developing a marketing plan.
While we often think of marketing only as spreading a message, it goes far beyond that. Through the work of creating a marketing plan you'll build a thorough understanding of member needs and ensure that the network's current and future products and services meet critical member needs. You'll also use strategies for tailoring communication in ways that are most meaningful to your audience.
In this webinar, we'll walk through a toolkit to support your work of developing a marketing plan for your project. The toolkit includes a guide, template and samples to help you develop an effective, impactful marketing plan. The marketing plan grant deliverable is due to the Electronic Handbook (EHB) by December 31, 2018.
This Flex Virtual Knowledge Group (VKG) webinar recording will focus on Roles of EMS in the Transition to Value. Learning objectives include:
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, $1,100,000 (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.
Driving change isn't easy. We sometimes spend a lot of time and energy developing what we think is a well-designed change initiative, only to have others' reactions derail the plan entirely. It's likely that you're working through many changes as the Allied Health grant period ends. In this webinar, we'll look at both the rational and emotional side of a change initiative and give you strategies for addressing both. We'll explore ways to not only keep others engaged in the change process, but also to keep up your own energy as you encounter challenges along the way. We'll also share tools designed to help you pinpoint sources of resistance and develop strategies to address them accordingly.
With the overwhelming substance use disorders of prescription and non-prescription drugs, the opioid epidemic has been declared a public health emergency. Paired with the behavioral health professions workforce shortage, these issues have become a government priority.
During this webinar, you will learn about federal workforce programs and initiatives around the opioid epidemic and workforce shortages, along with how they align with network activities. Networks can discover opportunities to expand network products and services to help address the opioid epidemic and behavioral health workforce shortage, as well as learn resources on how to respond to these issues.
To have an effective and efficient network, collaborators must key in on real issues of interest to network partners and communicate how they can work together for mutual gain. In this webinar, we'll explore elements of marketing to the network. We'll look at understanding network members and developing programs that meet their unique needs, followed by identifying which segments to target with messages about new and existing programs. Finally, we'll introduce communication tools to reach those segments effectively.
Learn to effectively communicate and market to your network members to ensure your partners work together for mutual gain. This webinar will help you understand your members and identify segments to target with messages about new programs.
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