Month: December 2022

HRSA Funding Opportunity– Rural Communities Opioid Response (RCORP) – Overdose Response HRSA-23-038

December 13, 2022

HRSA Funding Opportunity – Rural Communities Opioid Response (RCORP) – Overdose Response HRSA-23-038

Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) – Overdose Response – Applications Due January 19.  HRSA will make approximately 40 grants of $300,000 each, towards immediate community-level needs related to the drug overdose crisis. Applicants may choose to implement services from a list of allowable prevention, treatment, and recovery activities, but must clearly justify and support the need for the selected activity/activities, as well as their ability to implement the activity/activities within a one-year period of performance.

HRSA Funding Opportunity- Rural Health Network Development Planning Program HRSA-22-059

December 13, 2022

HRSA Funding Opportunity – Rural Health Network Development Planning Program HRSA-22-059

Rural Health Network Development Planning Program – Applications Due January 6. Through the Rural Health Network Development Planning Program, HRSA will make approximately 20 awards of up to $100,000 each. This funding will allow networks to conduct planning activities over the course of one year, with the goal of expanding access and improving the quality of care in the rural communities they serve. The link to the technical assistance webinar recording is here.

Webinar – How to Solve Your Staffing Issues

December 12, 2022

Webinar – How to Solve Your Staffing Issues

Webinar – Thursday, December 15, 2022, 10:00 a.m. CST

Custom Learning invites you to join The Accelerated Staffing Fix webinar to hear Clint Maun provide many extremely valuable and relatively east to start strategies. The webinar will share information to resolve and solve issues of employee retention, provided by a more effective recruitment and selection process.

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At this link: Clint Maun Conference Report  find glowing reviews from nearly 150 people about Clint’s keynote on this topic at the November HealthCare Service Excellence Conference. If you look this over you will see their excitement about the ideas and strategies he introduced.

The above program information is being forwarded by the Office of Rural Health and Primary Care (ORHPC) as a service of this office.  ORHPC does not endorse or recommend any vendor or service. Please review for the appropriate use within your organization.

HHS Region 7 Virtual Office Hours

December 13, 2022

HHS Region 7 Virtual Office Hours

HHS Region 7 Virtual Office Hours – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 7 invites you to the HHS Region 7 Virtual Office Hours on Wednesday, January 4, 9:00 am – 9:45am CT. The Virtual Office Hours will provide partners and stakeholders the networking platform to engage with HHS leadership and subject matter experts to get answers to program and resource questions, request technical assistance and training, and share critical surveillance about emergent local, state, and regional healthcare issues/trends. Among the agencies that are scheduled to be in attendance are the Administration for Children and Families, Administration for Community Living, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Food and Drug Administration, Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. They will be providing a few program updates, followed by a Q&A session. Register here.

Upcoming NRHA Partner Webinars for Rural Healthcare

December 12, 2022

Webinar – Optimize Patient Outcomes, Value, and Financial Stability with a Transitional Care Program in Your Rural Post-Acute Care

Webinar – Thursday, Jan 19, 1:00 – 2:00 pm CST

Utilize swing beds at your facility to increase access for a broader patient group. Improving post-acute care in rural areas can reduce rural-urban disparities in patient outcomes after hospitalization and improve the financial stability of CAHs. Allevant Solutions focuses on a transitional care model that involves the patient and family, makes available the full resources of the Critical Access Hospital, and focuses on measured outcomes and evidence-based processes to ensure patients get the best care possible. The Transitional Care Program is centered on teamwork, communication, and collaboration. We will cover the Transitional Care model as well as the business benefits of utilizing and marketing your swing bed program, discuss staff training and education, and review process improvement methodologies that can be used to grow your swing bed volume.

What you will learn:

  • Participants will be able to understand the value of developing high-quality Post-Acute Transitional Care in Critical Access Hospitals in response to a growing patient population and demands and challenges in acute care hospitals.
  • Participants will be able to begin to quantify the opportunity and understand the key steps to initiate, implement and track progress in developing high-quality Post-Acute Transitional Care.
  • Participants will learn how Transitional Care is an effective way to incorporate population health, chronic disease management, and wellness.

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Upcoming NRHA Partner Webinars for Rural Healthcare

December 12, 2022

Webinar – Rural Healthcare in 2023: The Most Important Financial and Operational Challenges

Webinar – Thursday, Dec 15, 2022 2:00 PM – 3:00 pm CST

While we may not be able to solve all the financial challenges confronting rural healthcare executives in 40 minutes, we can review the most important financial and operational issues and a few solutions/best practices to address them. Two rural healthcare veterans, Brenda Schneider, CFO at Skyline Health, and John H. Everett, COO at Cogdell Memorial Hospital, will discuss how they created an AR positive cash flow leveraging specific rural finance solutions with other rural healthcare finance experts, Renay Hellickson and Justin DeNegri. This is a recorded panel discussion broadcast by NRHA and any questions generated by attendees will be addressed by presenters after the webinar.

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Upcoming NRHA Partner Webinars for Rural Healthcare

December 12, 2022

Overcoming Rural Health Revenue Cycle Challenges

Webinar – Tuesday, Dec 13, 2:00 3:00 pm CST

Join this webinar to learn how to accomplish better revenue cycle outcomes, resolving declining revenues and staff shortage challenges. We will discuss how these challenges can be resolved in the rural healthcare setting, identifying root causes and gaps and then applying rural specific strategic solutions. Additionally, we will review how successful integration with an experienced business partner is an important tool for rural healthcare.

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MBQIP: Best Practices in Patient Experience at CAHs: Incorporating Lessons from COVID-19

December 12, 2022

New! Best Practices in Patient Experience at CAHs: Incorporating Lessons from COVID-19

New!  Best Practices in Patient Experience at CAHs: Incorporating Lessons from COVID-19

This Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) best practice study includes strategies that high-performing CAHs employed to maintain the best possible health care experience for patients despite the coronavirus pandemic. It is an update to HCAHPS approaches collected from high-performing CAHs across the U.S. during focus group interviews conducted in late 2016.

Now Available! December MBQIP Monthly

December 09, 2022

Now Available! December MBQIP Monthly

MBQIP Monthly is an e-newsletter that highlights current information about the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP) and provides critical access hospitals (CAHs) information and support for quality reporting and improvement. MBQIP Monthly is produced through the Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance program by Stratis Health.

Current Issue:  MBQIP Monthly December 2022

  • CAHs Can! National Rural Virtual Quality Improvement Mentor Profile Series: Tammy Suchy
  • Data: CAHs Measure Up – Antibiotic Stewardship Program Reporting Implementation Update
  • Tips: Robyn Quips – Abstracting and Reporting Resources
  • Tools and Resources – Helping CAHs succeed in Quality Reporting & Improvement

Flex programs are encouraged to distribute MBQIP Monthly to their CAHs as an additional resource to supplement state-level MBQIP support (just forward the above summary to your hospitals).

This Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) best practice study includes strategies that high-performing CAHs employed to maintain the best possible health care experience for patients despite the coronavirus pandemic. It is an update to HCAHPS approaches collected from high-performing CAHs across the U.S. during focus group interviews conducted in late 2016.

  • Upcoming Office Hours!  Ask Robyn – Quarterly Open Office Hour Call for Data Abstractors | Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CT Register
    Sometimes it just helps to talk to someone! Quality Reporting Specialist Robyn Carlson offers open office hour calls to discuss your MBQIP abstraction questions. Sessions are free of charge, but registration is required. For more information about the Ask Robyn calls, contact Robyn Carlson (rcarlson@stratishealth.org).

If you have MBQIP questions, please contact tasc@ruralcenter.org.

Funding Opportunity-Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) – Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) HRSA-23-094-Due March 8, 2023

December 8, 2022

Funding Opportunity – Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) – Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) HRSA-23-094

The Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) has a new Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) funding opportunity posted on grants.gov.  RCORP-Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) will fund approximately 40 awards of $500,000 per year to reduce the impact and incidence of NAS in rural communities.  The application due date is March 8, 2023 and there will be a technical assistance webinar for applicants on January 4, 2023 from 2-3PM, ET (no registration required; details on pg. iii of the NOFO).  All domestic public or private entities are eligible to apply, but all services must be exclusively provided in HRSA-designated rural areas.  Please direct any applicant questions to ruralopioidresponse@hrsa.gov.

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