RHV Profiles Archive

Older, but still valuable profiles, from the Rural Health Value team.



Affiliation Partners Sought to Prepare Small Hospital for Value-Based Care

Grinnell Regional Medical Center, a rural Iowa hospital, sought affiliation partners so it could prepare to participate in risk-based reimbursement models. (2018)


Medical-Legal Partnership Addresses Social Determinants of Health

FirstHealth of the Carolinas integrates a medical-legal partnership into the evidence-based Chronic Care Model used in its new transitional care clinics. (2017)


Global Budget Process as an Alternative Payment Model

McCready Health regularly monitors and adjusts fees to achieve budget goals within Maryland's all-payer hospital rate-setting system. (2017)


Health Outside Hospital Walls

Chadron Community Hospital and Health Services, Chadron, Nebraska, offers healthy living options and fills health services gaps within the community-expanding care beyond the treatment and recovery of individuals to include a focus on overall population health. (2016)


Integrated Care in a Frontier Community

Southeast Health Group has developed a fully integrated care model to support patients in frontier communities in southeastern Colorado. Its care coordination focuses on wellness and addresses nonmedical obstacles to overall health. (2016)