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RHFP Information
Publications and Resources
Background
The State Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant Program is a major
national initiative to strengthen rural health care by:
- Allowing small hospitals the flexibility to reconfigure their
operations, particularly for acute inpatient care as Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs).
- Offering cost-based reimbursement for Medicare acute inpatient
and outpatient services.
- Encouraging the development of rural-centric health networks.
- Offering grants to states to help implement a CAH program in
the context of broader initiatives to strengthen the rural health care infrastructure.
The CAH program requires participating states to develop
rural health plans and funds the states to support and implement community-level outreach
and technical assistance. Although focused on very small rural hospitals, this complex
intervention operates on the national, state, community, and facility levels and covers a
broad range of health service issues.
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Partners
The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) is
supporting a national evaluation of the Flexibility/CAH program to be undertaken jointly
by six research centers it partially supports. This unique multi-center consortium brings
to bare a truly nationwide roster of skills and expertise on a complex intervention. The
evaluation consortium includes the rural health research centers located at Project Hope
and the universities of Southern Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Washington. In
addition, the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) contributes its expertise in
conducting and communicating policy analysis for state and federal governments.
Gary Hart, Ph.D., of the University of Washington will act as overall study coordinator. The study
period runs three years starting September 1999.
Rural
Health Programs
Programs
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Office of Rural Health Policy
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
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