NRHA Webinar – How 30 Rural Providers Unlocked the Unrealized Value in their Patient Payment Plans

March 3, 2023

NRHA Webinar – How 30 Rural Providers Unlocked the Unrealized Value in their Patient Payment Plans

Thursday, March 30, 2:00 – 3:00 pm CST

Join Hospital Revenue Cycle Expert Michael Berger and Revenue Cycle Director Rhonda Ridenour as they share how 30 rural healthcare facilities turned their in-house patient payment plans into immediate cash, resulting in improved financial metrics. With over 30 years of senior revenue cycle leadership in 35 states, Michael’s extensive experience was instrumental in developing and implementing the collaborative approach that prioritized patient and community satisfaction. This ongoing program also led to benefits such as reduced cost-to-collect, bad debt reduction, and increased cash-on-hand. By attending this webinar, you’ll learn how to replicate these results at your own healthcare facility while engaging patients and improving their satisfaction.

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NRHA Webinar – Swing Bed Culture and Attention to Wellness Vital to Rural Healthcare, A Transitional Care Model

March 3, 2023

NRHA Webinar – Swing Bed Culture and Attention to Wellness Vital to Rural Healthcare, A Transitional Care Model

Thursday, March 16, 1:00 – 2:00 pm CST

Allevant, a joint venture between Mayo Clinic and Select Medical, helps Critical Access Hospitals by developing post-acute Transitional Care programs using available Swing Beds. Focused on assisting patients to transition to their highest level of independence, Transitional Care is a program that involves the patient and family, makes available the total resources of the Critical Access Hospital, and focuses on measured outcomes and evidence-based processes to ensure patients get the best care possible.

Allevant has supported approximately 100 Critical Access Hospitals across 22 states, including independent and part of health systems. Our clients have cared for over 12,000 patients, representing over 158,000 swing bed days.

With a strong focus on quality, outcomes, and growth, our clients saw an average increase in swing bed days of 55% by the second year. 64% of patients were categorized as complex medical or complex surgical, a growing patient population. Only 7% of Transitional Care patients were discharged directly back to acute care during a program stay of fewer than 30 days. 76% of patients were discharged from Transitional Care back to independence. The average patient rating was 4.83 out of 5 when asked if patients would “recommend the program to others.”

Learn more at www.Allevant.com

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NRHA Webinar – What Rural Healthcare Leaders Need to Know to Advance Cybersecurity Readiness

March 3, 2023

NRHA Webinar – What Rural Healthcare Leaders Need to Know to Advance Cybersecurity Readiness

Wednesday, March 8, 2:00 – 3:00 pm CST

The world of cybersecurity in healthcare has changed significantly over the past few years. Yet, most rural hospitals need help implementing cybersecurity practices to keep up with modern-day hackers.

We can learn a lot from the trends over the last year to make cybersecurity changes and advance protection for rural healthcare networks and patients.

Join CloudWave’s Chief Security and Engineering Officer, John Gomez, as he shares lessons learned from 2022 and an outlook for how rural hospitals can successfully combat hackers in 2023. He will cover topics including advancements in medical device cybersecurity, how to meet cyber liability requirements, why informed patient consent is becoming a more significant issue, and more.

What you’ll learn:

  • Cybersecurity Lessons from 2022 and recommendations for changes in 2023
  • Why medical device security is increasing in priority
  • What rural hospitals can do to impact their cyber liability insurance premiums positively
  • Emerging trends in cybersecurity

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Webinar: RHCs and Medicare Shared Savings Program – What You Need to Know

March 3, 2023

Webinar: RHCs and Medicare Shared Savings Program – What You Need to Know

Rural Health Clinic (RHC) participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) has grown significantly. The National Association of Rural Health Clinics, CMS, and Rural Health Value (RHV) will share an overview of MSSP, highlight RHC opportunities, review 2024 MSSP changes, and provide time for Q&A.

March 7 3:00 PM ET

Please register in advance.

      

Webinar – Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) General Education

March 3, 2023

Webinar – Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) General Education

Stroudwater Associates, in partnership with the Missouri Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, will provide general education on topics including REH Conditions of participation, clinical services, staffing, general operations, potential community concerns, and finance/reimbursement.

Presenters:

Eric Shell, CPA, MBA, Chairman, Stroudwater Associates

With a dedication to improving rural communities, Eric Shell is an industry leader in supporting rural healthcare in its transition to population health. For his nearly 30 years in healthcare financial management and consulting, Eric’s passion for sustainable and accessible rural healthcare has driven him to help hundreds of rural health systems achieve improved financial and operational performance.

Carla Brock Wilber, DNP, RN, NE-BC, Senior Consultant, Stroudwater Associates

Carla Wilber, an accomplished nurse administrator with a strong background in critical care, education, Lean process improvement, and emergency services, joined Stroudwater in 2014. She has completed numerous facility assessments and process improvements in quality, care management, emergency department, and care transitions for critical access hospitals, rural and urban health systems, and provider groups.

Stroudwater will be hosting the general education webinar on three separate dates. Individuals interested in attending only need to register for one meeting. The schedule below includes the meeting date and time and the link to register for the meetings.

Friday, April 14: 1:30 – 2:30 PM CST

Monday, May 8: 1:00 – 2:00 PM CST

Thursday, June 22: 12:00 – 1:00 PM CST

Contact the Stroudwater Team:

Eric Shell, Principal: eshell@stroudwater.com

Carla Wilber, Senior Consultant: cwilber@stroudwater.com

Lindsay Corcoran, Senior Consultant: lcorcoran@stroudwater.com

Megan Zook, Project Coordinator: mzook@stroudwater.com

Webinar –NRHA’s Rural Hospital HR Certification Program

February 28, 2023

Webinar – NRHA’s Rural Hospital HR Certification Program – Wednesday, March 8 at 12:30 PM

The increasing rates of employee burnout and turnover coupled with the struggle to recruit and retain staff are just some of the everyday obstacles faced by rural hospital HR Leaders. Along with constantly changing policies and regulations and a lack of resources across the board, there has never been a more crucial time to support rural hospital HR Leaders.

Do any of these topics concern with you?

  • Recruiting
  • Retention
  • Burnout
  • Culture
  • Staff & Organizational Training/Development
  • Labor Laws & Regulations
  • Communication
  • FTEs, Productivity, & Payroll
  • Budgeting
  • Employee Engagement
  • Employee Benefits

Learn about how NRHA’s Rural Hospital HR Certification Program can provide the network, knowledge, and tools for your rural hospital’s HR Leaders! Join NRHA on March 8th at 12:30 pm to learn about this one of kind program, created by rural hospital HR executives for rural hospital HR executives.

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Webinars – Custom Learning Systems: Become a 5 Star Provider of Choice

February 17, 2023

Webinars – Custom Learning Systems: Become a 5 Star Provider of Choice

The Office of Rural Health and Primary Care (ORHPC) is pleased to share several Custom Learning Systems webinars, available to our Missouri Rural Health Partners. These webinars are available to your organization and staff at no charge to you.

To register, please click on the date next to the webinars you wish to attend. Clicking on the date will auto-generate a registration code unique to Missouri and waive registration fees.

Engage Series:

  • The Resilience Roadmap with Mark Black – “A framework for success in the face of adversity” – Friday, March 31, 2023 at 10:00 AM CT
  • The Staffing Fix with Clint Maun – “Stop the Bleeding: Find and Retain Quality Staff” – Monday, April 24, 2023 at 11:00 AM CT
  • Compassionate Accountability with Nate Regier – Overcome six compassion myths to improve the healthcare experience – Friday, June 9, 2023 at 10:00 AM CT

Everyone’s A Caregiver Mastery Series (EACM):

Elevate 23:

HCAHPS Breakthrough Series:

Having problems with registering? Contact Monique at (800) 667-7325 ext. 2202 or monique@customlearning.com

Upcoming Webinar: RHCs & the Medicare Shared Savings Program

February 21, 2023

The National Association of Rural Health Clinics (NARHC), Center for Medicare, and Rural Health Value are hosting a webinar on rural health clinic participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The webinar will be held on March 7 at 3:00 pm ET on Zoom. You must register in advance.

Speakers will include Dr. Doug Jacobs, Chief Transformation Officer at the Center for Medicare and Dr. Clint MacKinney, Co-Principal Investigator at Rural Health Value. Nathan Baugh and Sarah Hohman at NARHC will moderate the session. The will share an overview of the MSSP, highlight RHC opportunities, review 2024 MSSP changes, and provide time for Q&A. All interested members are encouraged to attend.

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Webinar – Swing Bed Quality Reporting Program

February 17, 2023

Webinar – Swing Bed Quality Reporting Program

Date: March 14, 2023

Time: 11:00 AM CT

Stroudwater Associates invites you to join the conversation about Swing Bed Quality Reporting. This discussion will include best practices around the 5 key Swing Bed metrics along with Missouri data that can be shared with referral providers.

Who should attend:

  • All Swing Bed program staff
  • Administrators
  • Anyone interested in improving Swing Bed Quality Reporting

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NRHA Webinar – CMO Certification Program

February 17, 2023

NRHA Webinar – CMO Certification Program

The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) Is hosting a webinar, this month, that may be of interest to you and your organization.

With the constantly changing healthcare landscape, there has never been a more crucial time for physician leaders to have the tools, knowledge, and network of peers and experts they need to thrive in their roles.  These are things you don’t learn in medical school.

Physician leaders are unique. Physicians have been trained to take care of patients and provide leadership in doing so. Providing leadership within a rural hospital however is different, one of the resounding reasons for the creation of this program. This program was created for rural hospital CMOs and Physician Leaders by rural hospital CMOs and Physician Leaders.

What kind of value might you receive if you participate in this program? Come find out! Learn about this one-of-a-kind program created by rural hospital physician leaders for rural hospital physician leaders during a live webinar in February.

CMO Certification Program Webinar on February 22nd at 1 pm EST

CMO Certification Program Webinar on February 24th at 12 pm EST

Click here to register for either of these webinar times.

Enrollment is open for all Certification Programs for 2023 Cohorts – visit our website for details and application information at www.crhleadership.com