With the support of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), the National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) hosted the 2019 Rural Care Coordination and Population Health Management Summit in May 2019.
Subject matter experts were convened to consider how community care coordination plays a key role in assisting health care leaders in preparing for population health management.
Summit Findings Report
The Summit Findings Report will assist rural hospitals, clinics and network leaders in considering key actions that they can undertake to incorporate community care coordination planning as a strategy to help position the organization for population health.
The report is also intended to assist state Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Programs and state offices of rural health (SORH) by offering timely information to help them develop tools and educational resources that support hospitals and networks in the transition to value-based payment models.
This 2019 Summit Report builds upon the knowledge gained from previously convened summit meetings with nationally recognized subject matter experts, which includes 2016 Financial Leadership and Rural Provider Engagement Summits, the 2017 Value-Based Strategic Summit and 2018 Rural Hospital and Clinic Financial Summit.
Rural Hospital Guide to Improving Care Management
The Rural Hospital Guide provides rural hospital executive and management teams with generally accepted best practice concepts related to care management.
Explore opportunities to improve performance within the hospital setting through the transition from traditional fee-for-service reimbursement to a value-based, population-health-focused reimbursement environment.
Rural hospitals should use this guide to determine how to most effectively staff care management and identify opportunities to improve clinical and financial outcomes. State rural health partners may also benefit from this guide, as it assists them to ask the right questions when meeting with hospital leadership.