The realities of rural healthcare have amplified the need to improve capabilities for identifying, monitoring and understanding performance variance. With a better lens into performance gaps (e.g. financial, operational, clinical), leadership teams can spotlight success and initiate action on opportunities for performance improvement. Learn how Island Hospital, a 43-bed rural hospital in Anacortes, WA, is leveraging benchmarks for a stronger lens into hospital performance and to set the wheels in motion on a data-driven culture. Click here

The Chartis Center for Rural Health is working with a nearly a dozen SORHs nationally on grant-funded performance improvement initiatives and customized recognition programs in areas such as MBQIP-focused Quality Improvement, Hospital Finance and Operations. This ‘network’ programming provides rural hospital leadership teams with access to data, and opportunities for collaboration and recognition that otherwise would not be available. We’ve published a Q&A on the work we’re doing with Maine Office of Rural Health and Primary Care.

by Michael Topchik National Leader, The Chartis Center for Rural Health February 6, 2018 The Chartis Center for Rural Health has been monitoring and modeling rural provider performance in an effort to better understand the overall stability of the rural health safety net. Our research findings have made an important contribution to the national narrative around the complex challenges confronting rural providers and the downward pressure caused by different policies and legislation. This week we’ll