Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Care coordination
CPC Practice Spotlights
A collection of short features on primary care practices that participated in the CMS Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative, a multi-payer initiative that offered population-based care management fees and shared savings opportunities to participating practices. Includes examples of practices serving rural areas.
Date: 01/2015
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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A collection of short features on primary care practices that participated in the CMS Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative, a multi-payer initiative that offered population-based care management fees and shared savings opportunities to participating practices. Includes examples of practices serving rural areas.
Date: 01/2015
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Grantee Directory: Rural Health Care Coordination Network Partnership Grant Program, 2015-2018
Provides contact information and brief overviews of the 8 initiatives funded under the Rural Health Care Coordination Network Partnership Grant Program in the 2015-2018 funding cycle. The initiatives focus on care coordination activities for diabetes, congestive heart failure (CHF), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Date: 2015
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
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Provides contact information and brief overviews of the 8 initiatives funded under the Rural Health Care Coordination Network Partnership Grant Program in the 2015-2018 funding cycle. The initiatives focus on care coordination activities for diabetes, congestive heart failure (CHF), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Date: 2015
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
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Rural Accountable Care Organization Care Coordination
Profile of the MaineHealth Accountable Care Organization (MHACO), which uses regional teams to provide care coordination to patients with complex medical profiles.
Date: 2015
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Value
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Profile of the MaineHealth Accountable Care Organization (MHACO), which uses regional teams to provide care coordination to patients with complex medical profiles.
Date: 2015
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Value
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Access to Behavioral Health Care for Geographically Remote Service Members and Dependents in the U.S.
Offers a geospatial analysis using TRICARE and other data to determine access to and utilization of mental and behavioral healthcare services for veterans who reside in remote locations. Recommends two pathways for improving access to care: telehealth service and collaborative care between primary care and specialty behavioral care.
Author(s): Ryan Andrew Brown, Grant N. Marshall, Joshua Breslau, et al.
Date: 2015
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: RAND Corporation
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Offers a geospatial analysis using TRICARE and other data to determine access to and utilization of mental and behavioral healthcare services for veterans who reside in remote locations. Recommends two pathways for improving access to care: telehealth service and collaborative care between primary care and specialty behavioral care.
Author(s): Ryan Andrew Brown, Grant N. Marshall, Joshua Breslau, et al.
Date: 2015
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: RAND Corporation
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Annual Report 1: HCIA Disease-Specific Evaluation
Evaluations of 18 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects targeting patient populations with specific diseases. Includes projects that serve a variety of rural areas and address conditions such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Approaches discussed include care coordination, education, and telehealth.
Date: 11/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, NORC at the University of Chicago
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Evaluations of 18 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects targeting patient populations with specific diseases. Includes projects that serve a variety of rural areas and address conditions such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Approaches discussed include care coordination, education, and telehealth.
Date: 11/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, NORC at the University of Chicago
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HCIA Complex/High-Risk Patient Targeting: First Annual Report
Evaluations of 23 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on patients with medically complex conditions at high risk for hospitalization, re-hospitalization, emergency department visits, or nursing home stays. Identifies several projects serving rural areas, including programs that use telehealth, in-home care, and various care coordination approaches.
Date: 11/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, NORC at the University of Chicago
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Evaluations of 23 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on patients with medically complex conditions at high risk for hospitalization, re-hospitalization, emergency department visits, or nursing home stays. Identifies several projects serving rural areas, including programs that use telehealth, in-home care, and various care coordination approaches.
Date: 11/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, NORC at the University of Chicago
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How 3 Rural Safety Net Clinics Integrate Care for Patients: A Qualitative Case Study
Case study of two Rural Health Clinics and one rural Federally Qualified Health Center that were part of the Commonwealth Fund's Safety Net Medical Home Initiative (SNMHI), a project to implement and evaluate the patient-centered medical home (PCMH). Reports on challenges encountered related to a transition to team-based care and practical approaches for rural care coordination.
Author(s): Sarah Derrett, Kathryn E. Gunter, Robert S. Nocon, et al.
Citation: Medical Care, 52(11), S39-S47
Date: 11/2014
Type: Document
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Case study of two Rural Health Clinics and one rural Federally Qualified Health Center that were part of the Commonwealth Fund's Safety Net Medical Home Initiative (SNMHI), a project to implement and evaluate the patient-centered medical home (PCMH). Reports on challenges encountered related to a transition to team-based care and practical approaches for rural care coordination.
Author(s): Sarah Derrett, Kathryn E. Gunter, Robert S. Nocon, et al.
Citation: Medical Care, 52(11), S39-S47
Date: 11/2014
Type: Document
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Evaluation of the Health Care Innovation Awards: Community Resource Planning, Prevention, and Monitoring: Annual Report
Evaluations of 24 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on enhancing care coordination and healthcare access through the use of health information technology, care coordination/patient navigation, and health promotion and prevention services. Includes information on 5 rural-focused projects, as well as projects that serve both rural and urban areas.
Author(s): RTI International
Date: 10/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Evaluations of 24 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on enhancing care coordination and healthcare access through the use of health information technology, care coordination/patient navigation, and health promotion and prevention services. Includes information on 5 rural-focused projects, as well as projects that serve both rural and urban areas.
Author(s): RTI International
Date: 10/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Care Coordination Comparative Matrix
Identifies rural health networks that are developing or implementing value-based models and recaps brief interviews with the network leaders that are implementing or developing care coordination initiatives. The matrix allows rural health networks to share features and lessons learned through the process of implementing the care coordination programs with one another.
Date: 08/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Resource Center
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Identifies rural health networks that are developing or implementing value-based models and recaps brief interviews with the network leaders that are implementing or developing care coordination initiatives. The matrix allows rural health networks to share features and lessons learned through the process of implementing the care coordination programs with one another.
Date: 08/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Resource Center
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Keeping PACE with the Rural Elderly
Discusses PACE, the Program of All-inclusive Care, which helps elderly people remain independent. Features Northland PACE, a program serving rural North Dakota.
Author(s): Kathleen Belanger
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 08/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Discusses PACE, the Program of All-inclusive Care, which helps elderly people remain independent. Features Northland PACE, a program serving rural North Dakota.
Author(s): Kathleen Belanger
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 08/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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