Rural hospitals are often praised for their personalized approach of neighbors caring for neighbors, but along with the rest of the healthcare industry, rural providers are not immune to the increasingly less human-centered care that we sometimes see today.
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Episode 74: How Regulations & Industry Trends Impact Rural Hospital Finances
Rural hospitals have faced significant financial strain to the point of closure for more than 140 hospitals since 2010. Additionally, we are seeing many others facing a high and/or immediate risk of closing in the near future.
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This week, JJ and Rachel continue their discussion on how the pandemic impacted individuals with disabilities with Michigan Supreme Court Justice, Richard Bernstein.
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COVID-19 has had significant impacts on all sectors of the population for the past three years, but has created particular challenges for those with disabilities who use hearing and touch as communication.
... Read MoreEpisode 72: How Hospital Associations Support & Advocate for Rural Hospitals
In rural healthcare, it is essential to have support advocating for your needs and developing policies that are helpful to rural hospitals while influencing policies that could be hurtful instead.
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Connections between rural hospitals and state wide advocacy organizations that can represent them is crucial to hospital success, and even at times, their survival.
... Read MoreEpisode 70: Data Collection and Analysis in Rural Health
Rural hospitals are often overshadowed or misjudged due to data collection techniques, metric designs that automatically disadvantage rural hospitals with smaller numbers, and the lack of concern for the subsequent misleading results.
... Read MoreEpisode 69: Rules & Regs: Navigating a Complex Regulatory Environment
Today, we zero in on how rural hospitals can deal with the growing complexity of the regulatory environment.
... Read MoreEpisode 68: Fundraising Initiatives for Rural Hospitals
Gaining community support through fundraising can be difficult for rural hospitals thanks to limited time, resources, and personnel dedicated to this effort.
... Read MoreA Mini-Sode in Two Parts: Strategic Planning, Part II
This week, JJ and Rachel continue in part 2. of our discussion about the importance of strategic planning.
... Read MoreA Mini-Sode in Two Parts: Strategic Planning, Part 1
This week in part 1, JJ and Rachel sit down to talk about the importance of strategic planning.
... Read MoreEpisode 67: The Value Proposition in Rural Hospital Partnerships, Part 2
This week, we continue the discussion on the value rural hospitals bring when partnering with larger systems and organizations.
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We’ve talked before about how healthcare partnerships are critical to rural hospitals, but these partnerships are also beneficial to the organizations that we are joining forces with.
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This week, we get into the challenges rural hospitals face as they implement their own infection control programs, and how those programs have changed and adapted in response to the pandemic as well as preparing for future outbreaks.
... Read MoreEpisode 64: Access to Prenatal Care in Rural Communities
Access to prenatal care in rural communities is critical to the health and well-being of mothers and their children, but its often difficult to access, limited in scope, or worse,… Read more »
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