Rural issues
Held May 31, 2018
Join the AHA Section for Small or Rural Hospitals as we feature the 2017 AHA Rural Hospital Leadership award recipient Bryan Slaba and finalist Erik Thorsen and their efforts to ensure access to care and improve population health in their rural communities.
Ensuring Access to Care
Wagner Community Memorial Hospital 鈥 Avera
Ensuring Access and Improving Population Health through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Care
Health care is changing as the march from volume to value moves forward. And hospitals and health systems are redefining the 鈥淗鈥 to meet the demands of the moment, and of the future, in a way that is even more responsive to our patients and communities.
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government today held a hearing on the Federal Communications Commission鈥檚 and Federal Trade Commission鈥檚 budget request for fiscal year 2019.
Clinch Valley Medical Center: Committed to improving patient health and well-being.
Thirty-one senators today urged the Federal Communications Commission to 鈥渟ufficiently increase鈥 the funding cap for the Rural Health Care Program, which helps rural patients access care through telehealth and broadband services.
The Bipartisan Budget Act retroactively extended the enhanced low-volume payment adjustment, which provides an add-on payment to qualifying low-volume hospitals to help improve access to care in rural areas.
Connecting health systems and community-based organizations to improve outcomes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released the agency鈥檚 strategy to promote high-quality health care for all rural Americans, address the unique economics of providing rural health care, and bring a rural focus to CMS health care delivery and payment reforms.