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Resources by Topic: Hospitals

Rural Minnesota Path to Value Podcast Series
A podcast series focused on education for Critical Access Hospital (CAH) staff and mid-level leaders in rural Minnesota. Focuses on value-based care, population health, telehealth, social determinants of health, and more.
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Resource Center
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ACS Surgical Workforce Mapping Tool
An interactive county-level map that provides surgical workforce supply rates per 100K population. Allows user to create overlays showing location of hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers as well as to select for surgical specialty.
Sponsoring organization: American College of Surgeons
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Rural Maternal Health County Data Repository
An interactive county-level maternal health data repository that provides information on hospital obstetric (OB) services availability, population characteristics, maternal health provider workforce supply, and maternal health and birth outcomes. Includes county, state, and national maternal health data comparisons as well as a county-level map showing if and when OB services have been lost.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Maternal Health Data Support and Analysis Program
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Kansas Rural Hospitals Optimizing Performance Events Calendar
Shares events hosted by the Kansas Rural Hospitals Optimizing Performance partnership, focusing on topics such as the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP), swing beds, quality improvement, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Rural Hospitals Optimizing Performance
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Critical Access Hospital Replacement Study Dashboard
Provides interactive data on Critical Access Hospital (CAH) financial and operational performance before and after a facility/building replacement. Allows user to filter information by key performance indicator, rurality, region, state, and average net patient revenue.
Sponsoring organization: Stroudwater Capital Partners
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Critical Access Hospital Replacement Directory
Provides directory information for Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) that underwent facility/building replacement. Allows user to search directory by rurality, region, state, replacement year, and hospital name.
Sponsoring organization: Stroudwater Capital Partners
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Rural Cardiology Desert Atlas
Offers a county level map of cardiology providers to demonstrate areas with limited access to cardiology care. Map is interactive and can show rural counties, counties with Critical Access Hospitals, and Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas.
Author(s): Vicky Muller Ferreira
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Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network Past Event Resources
Provides a list of Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network (ICAHN) past events and their related slides.
Sponsoring organization: Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network
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CJR-X (Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Expanded) Model
Provides information on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center's CJR-X (Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Expanded) Model, a mandatory nationwide episode-based payment model that aims to improve patient care and care coordination for Original Medicare patients undergoing hip, knee, and ankle replacements.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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The Evolution of U.S. Hospital Markets
Data visualization tool regarding hospital mergers, closures, ownership changes, and market concentration. Includes interactive maps exploring how hospital markets have changed since 2000 and forecasting the impact of potential ownership changes and closures on hospital market concentration.
Additional links: Hospital Closures Explorer, Hospital Market Explorer, Hospital Market Forecast Lab
Sponsoring organization: Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale
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