Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Hospitals

MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 2012
Reviews Medicare payment policies and covers policy recommendations to Congress. Discusses rural aspects of Medicare payment policies.
Date: 03/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Effect of Outpatient Visits and Discharge Destination on Potentially Preventable Readmissions for Congestive Heart Failure and Bacterial Pneumonia
Explores the relationship between potentially preventable hospital readmissions, discharge destination, time to follow-up care, use of outpatient follow-up care and rural versus urban residence of the patient.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): Marilyn G. Klug, Kyle Muus
Date: 03/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
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Communities Served by Rural Medicare Dependent Hospitals
Explores the potential consequences of termination of the Medicare Dependent Hospital (MDH) program by comparing MDHs to rural prospective payment system hospitals (R-PPS) in terms of utilization and the characteristics of the communities they serve.
Author(s): Kristin L. Reiter, George M. Holmes, Saleema A. Karim, George H. Pink
Date: 03/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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Best Practices for Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Strategy Development: A Review of Scientific Methods, Current Practices, and Future Potential
Discusses how public health and non-profit hospitals can work together to assess community health and plan for improvement. Addresses reasons rural hospitals and public health can benefit from working together. Based on a July 2011 public forum convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Author(s): Kevin Barnett
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Public Health Institute
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Rural Health Workforce Development Program: Providing On-the-Job Training for New Rural Nurses
Describes a 12-week orientation and training sequence for newly graduated rural registered nurses designed to meet the specific needs of the Northwest Kansas Health Alliance network's Critical Access Hospitals.
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Hospital Compare Quality Measures: 2010 National and Maine Results for Critical Access Hospitals
Examines Critical Access Hospital (CAH) participation in Hospital Compare and quality measure results for 2010 as well as trends from 2008-2010 for states with CAHs. Also includes data focused on Maine's CAHs.
Author(s): Michelle Casey, Peiyin Hung, Bridget Barton, Ira Moscovice
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Increasing Graduate Medical Education (GME) in Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) Could Enhance Physician Recruitment and Retention in Rural America
Summarizes how graduate medical education in Critical Access Hospitals could improve access to care in rural areas. Includes a chart illustrating the number of interns and residents at CAHs by year for 1998-2009.
Author(s): Imam M. Xierali, Sarah A. Sweeney, Robert L. Phillips Jr., Andrew W. Bazemore, Stephen M. Petterson
Citation: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 25(1), 7-8
Date: 01/2012
Type: Document
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Relevant Quality Measures for Critical Access Hospitals
Policy brief describes quality measures relevant to Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and identifies policy implications.
Author(s): Michelle Casey, Ira Moscovice, Jill Klingner, Shailendra Prasad
Date: 01/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human Services Meeting Minutes, Washington DC, February 15-17, 2012
Minutes from the NACRHHS, which provides recommendations on rural health and human services issues to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Meeting included the following topics: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, children and families, Head Start, health professional shortage areas, rural healthcare infrastructure, and the White House Rural Council.
Date: 2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
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Critical Access Hospital Ethics Committee Resource Guide
Offers practical suggestions for the development of an effective Critical Access Hospital ethics committee and includes examples highlighting challenging ethics conflicts common to rural settings.
Author(s): William A. Nelson, Barbara A. Elliott
Date: 2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
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