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Resources by Topic: Sustainability of programs

Positioning for Sustainability: A Formative Assessment Tool
Assessment tool designed to help organizations plan for long-term viability and the overall success of local health initiatives.
Date: 2011
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Health Policy Center
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Sustainability Framework
Identifies components contributing to programmatic and organizational sustainability.
Date: 2011
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Health Policy Center
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Care in the Country: A Historical Case Study of Long-Term Sustainability in Four Rural Health Centers
Explores the histories of four rural primary care health center programs and identifies factors that contributed to their sustainability, such as physician advocates, innovative practices, organizational flexibility, and community integration.
Author(s): D. Brad Wright
Citation: American Journal of Public Health, 99(9), 1612-1618
Date: 09/2009
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Sustaining Community Health Services Over Time: Models from the Rural Health Outreach Grant Program
Discusses post-grant sustainability of services provided by recipients of Rural Health Outreach Grant Program projects. Based on site visits to a medical rehabilitation project in Wyoming, a prenatal outreach project in Maryland, and a community health center in Oregon.
Author(s): Walter R. Gregg, Astrid Knott, Ira Moscovice
Date: 11/2004
Sponsoring organization: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
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Grantee Sustainability in the Rural Health Outreach Grant Program
Describes a study of the post-grant experiences of 99 Rural Health Outreach Grant recipients. Focuses on the extent to which programs were able to maintain or expand services after their grants ended and characteristics that helped programs succeed in the post-grant period.
Author(s): Walter Gregg, Astrid Knott, Ira Moscovice
Date: 12/2003
Sponsoring organization: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
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Rural Mobile Healthcare Toolkit
Resources and best practices to help rural communities develop mobile healthcare programs. Identifies program models and examples, and discusses implementation, evaluation, sustainability, and dissemination of program results.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Four Northwoods Towns Unite to Rebuild EMS — and Cut Response Times in Half
Discusses emergency medical service (EMS) access in rural Vilas County, Wisconsin. Includes a video about the service sharing agreement reached by 4 towns to provide EMS with full-time paramedics and EMTs.
Author(s): Jason Weiss, Will Cushman
Sponsoring organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Connected Communities for Healthy Aging
Provides resources that strengthen community infrastructure, promote healthy aging, and improve connectivity in rural Minnesota. Includes a toolkit that supports rural communities in forming, transforming, and sustaining healthy aging infrastructure.
Sponsoring organization: LeadingAge Minnesota
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Financing and Sustaining Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care Settings Toolkit
Interactive toolkit aims to help primary care providers build and maintain financially sustainable integrated behavioral health (IBH) models into their practices. Highlights models for creating funding streams that can sustain IBH models. Provides substance use resources, a literature collection, and case studies, among other resources, to support IBH program planning and implementation.
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Rural Chronic Disease Management Toolkit
Resources and best practices to help rural areas develop chronic disease management programs. Identifies program models and examples, and discusses implementation, evaluation, sustainability, and dissemination of program results.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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