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Key organizations, information and resources related to supporting rural value-based care capacity.
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Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)
Supports the development and testing of innovative health care payment and service delivery models.
Aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. Supports independent research on health care issues and offers grants to improve health care practice and policy.
Provides interactive mapping, networking, and learning utility to support planning and implementation of strategies to develop healthy, sustainable, and livable communities.
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
Ranking the health of nearly every county in the nation, County Health Rankings illustrate what is known when it comes to what's making people sick or healthy. County Health Roadmaps show what can be done to create healthier places to live, learn, work and play.
Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP)
Coordinates activities related to rural health care within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Part of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Focuses on matters affecting rural hospitals and health care, coordinating activities within the department that relate to rural health care, and maintaining a national information clearinghouse.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Provides resources, tools, and collaborative educational opportunities focused in five key areas: Improvement Capability; Person- and Family-Centered Care; Patient Safety; Quality, Cost, and Value; and Triple Aim for Populations.
National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH)
Works to foster and promote legislation, information exchange, education, and liaison activities with all State Offices of Rural Health, the federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the National Rural Health Association, and other organizations.
National Rural Health Resource Center
Focuses on providing technical assistance and knowledge resources to improve rural health including Performance Improvement, Health Information Technology, Recruitment & Retention, Community Health Assessments, and Networking.
Rural Health Information Hub (RHI Hub)
Helps rural communities and other rural stakeholders access the full range of available programs, funding, and research that can enable them to provide quality health and human services to rural residents.
National Rural Health Association (NRHA)
Promotes leadership, ideas, information, communication, education, research, advocacy, and methods to improve rural health. Composed of individual and organizational members who share a common interest in rural health.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Efforts focus on improving both the health of everyone in America and their health care - how it's delivered, how it's paid for, and how well it does for patients and their families. Invests in improving systems through which people receive care and in fostering environments that promote health and prevent disease and injury.
Support rural healthcare organizations by providing tailored, rural-relevant technical assistance to help them remain open and enhance the services they deliver to their community. RHRC leads the Rural Emergency Hospital Technical Assistance Program, and the Northern Border Region and Appalachian Region Technical Assistance Programs.
Targeted Technical Assistance for Rural Hospitals Program (TTAP)
Led by Georgia Southern University, this Federally-funded initiative offers comprehensive technical assistance to rural hospitals to address financial and operational challenges and maintain essential health services for their communities.