Rural issues
AHA is now accepting applications through Aug. 31 for the 2024 Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award, which honors a team that has displayed outstanding leadership and responsiveness to their community鈥檚 health needs and demonstrated a collaborative community process that led to measurable outcomes.
Since the rural emergency hospital designation became official last year, a growing number of rural care providers have voluntarily converted to the new category.
In this discussion, two rural health care leaders assess how the conversion to Rural Emergency Hospital is proceeding, and how to build trust and buy-in from patients and communities.
The AHA shared a series of proposals to strengthen rural health care with the Senate Finance Committee for a hearing May 16 titled, 鈥淩ural Health Care: Supporting Lives and Improving Communities.鈥
AHA statement on policies to ensure rural patients continue to receive access to high-quality care.
Barbara Sowada, president of the Board of Trustees at Memorial Hospital, discusses the role board members can play in helping rural hospitals and health systems navigate today鈥檚 pressing problems, and how the AHA鈥檚 resources and educational materials can provide valuable assistance.
The constant strain of workforce and financial issues are proving difficult to solve for rural health care providers. In this conversation, Barbara Sowada, president of the Board of Trustees at Memorial Hospital, discusses the role board members can play in helping their hospitals and health鈥
AHA comments on legislative proposals that are to be considered before the Committee on Ways and Means on May 8.
The AHA voices support of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024 (S. 3565).
Sparta Community Hospital, in a rural Illinois town about 50 miles southeast of St. Louis, is using proactive, patient-facing communication technology that integrates with its EHR system data to reach patients in a more user-friendly way to reduce its no-show rates.