Transforming Rural Hospitals Through Telehealth Partnerships: Strategic Playbook

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Provides hospital leaders with strategies to foster telehealth partnerships within health systems to improve rural hospital financial sustainability, clinical capacity, and long-term viability. Discusses rural hospital strain as well as the economic, community, and population health value of rural hospitals and how telehealth partnerships can mitigate financial issues and create sustainability. Includes a telehealth partnership maturity model, practical framework, and rural hospital implementation considerations.

E. Warr, B. Buquez, R. Kruis, J. Augenstein, J. McElligott

01/2026

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) - Telehealth Center of Excellence

Healthcare business and finance · Hospitals · Leadership · Networking and collaboration · Sustainability of programs · Telehealth