In cooperation with the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the Population Health Toolkit provides visualizations of data from multiple sources that answer questions that rural hospitals and communities have about the health of their communities.
Are you looking for data to support an idea or story for your rural community?
Do you wonder about the relationship with poverty, preventable hospital stays, and access to mental health providers? Have you examined the socioeconomic status of your community related to well-being?
These are just a few questions you can explore in the Toolkit.
- The Toolkit crosswalks multiple federal, publicly available datasets.
- Data visualizations provide a concise and easy to understand story of your data.
Explore your data further by downloading the information to create your own analysis and graphs.
Toolkit
Compare Metrics From 12 Scenarios
The 12 scenarios listed below include benchmarks for hospital or county-level users to compare their metrics to state and national benchmarks. All scenarios include explanations, visualizations, and instructional videos on how to use and export the data. Be sure to view the introductory tutorial video on how to use the data in the Population Health Toolkit.
- Diabetes Demographics
- Discharge Instructions
- Emergency Department Access
- Injury Demographics
- Patient Satisfaction
- Poverty, Preventable Stays, and Mental Health Shortage
- Social Determinants of Health
- Socioeconomic Status and Well-being
- Transportation and Health Status
- Understanding of Care and County Race Demographics
- Uninsured Rates, Behavior and Mental Health
- Using Claims Data
Introductory Tutorial Video
Where are you in the journey towards population health?
There is so much more to the Toolkit. Complete the Critical Access Hospital Population Health Readiness Assessment to connect with tools and resources targeted towards rural health organizations’ unique strengths and needs for transitioning towards population health.
The toolkit is continually updated with new resources to help your facility or county navigate the journey towards improved population health along each milestone.
Assessment
Questions? Want a demonstration?
Tracy Morton
Director of Population Health
(218) 216-7027
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, $1,009,120 (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.