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Resources by Topic: Service delivery models

Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) Demonstration
Describes the Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) demonstration including the project purpose, legislation, eligible states, partners, and program contacts. The initial demonstration ended in July 2019. However, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, authorized a five-year extension period for participating Critical Access Hospitals.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Frontier Extended Stay Clinics (FESC)
Describes the Frontier Extended Stay Clinic (FESC) program including the legislation, definition, project timeline, participants, early findings, and program contact information. The demonstration ended in April 2013.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Project ECHO Nevada
Provides training and indirect telehealth consultations to increase health care and public health professionals' capacity to effectively address emerging, common, chronic, and complex conditions in populations throughout Nevada. Connects urban, university-based subject matter experts with health care and public health professionals through regularly scheduled teleconference sessions where professionals can speak directly with specialists to review their challenging patient cases for feedback and recommendations. On Demand Library offers video recordings of training sessions.
Additional links: On Demand Library
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Office of Statewide Initiatives
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Integrated Care Resource Center
Helps states learn about best practices for delivering coordinated healthcare to high-need, high-cost Medicaid beneficiaries. The resource center is a joint technical assistance project of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office and the Center for Medicaid, CHIP, and Survey & Certification (CMCS).
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions
Provides access to evidence-based resources, tools, and support for organizations working to integrate primary and behavioral healthcare. Formerly the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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PubMed Search: Telemedicine and Rural Health Services
Searches PubMed's collection of journal article citations on the topic of rural telemedicine in the U.S.
Type: Literature Search
Sponsoring organization: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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Community Paramedic
Provides an overview of the Community Paramedic Program, a standard curriculum that universities and colleges can adapt for use in community paramedicine certification programs.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: The Savvik Foundation
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CMS Hospice Center
Provides information on regulations, enrollment and participation, billing and payments, and CMS Manuals relating to hospice services and benefits.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Telehealth and Health Information Technology in Rural Healthcare Topic Guide
Provides resources and answers frequently asked questions related to telehealth and health information technology (HIT) in a rural setting. Discusses opportunities for these technologies to improve healthcare delivery, staffing, privacy, cybersecurity, broadband access, and other related topics.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Rural and Remote Health
An international, peer-reviewed journal covering topics that inform improvement in rural health service delivery and health status in rural communities.
Type: Journal/Newsletter
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