Series
Transformation Approaches
Articles in the Transformation Approaches series.
RHTP-04.01
Aging in Place
The American promise of aging in place collides with rural reality: the institutions that once supported elderly residents are disappearing faster than alternatives emerge.
RHTP-04.02
Workforce Recruitment and Retention
Every state RHTP application promises workforce investment.
RHTP-04.03
Telehealth and Virtual Care
Every state RHTP application mentions telehealth.
RHTP-04.04
Community Health Workers
Rosa Medina starts her Tuesday in Presidio County, Texas, with a list of five patients spread across 47 miles of ranch roads.
RHTP-04.05
Hub-and-Spoke Networks
Hub-and-spoke network design appears in nearly every state RHTP application.
RHTP-04.06
Payment Model Innovation
Fee-for-service payment is fundamentally incompatible with rural healthcare delivery.
RHTP-04.07
Behavioral Health Integration
Rural America faces a behavioral health crisis without the workforce to address it.
RHTP-04.08
Social Needs Integration
Social determinants of health have become healthcare's most popular policy concept.
RHTP-04.09
Transportation as Health Infrastructure
Distance is destiny in rural healthcare.
RHTP-04.10
Digital Infrastructure
Every RHTP application invokes telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and electronic health records.
RHTP-04.11
Emergency and Trauma Systems
The mathematics of rural emergency care produces a brutal equation.
RHTP-04.12
Maternal and Child Health
Rural America is becoming a place where giving birth safely is no longer possible.
RHTP-04.TD1
Evidence Rating Framework
Document Overview
Series 4 requires consistent methodology for evaluating evidence across twelve transformation domains.
RHTP-04.TD2
Telehealth Effectiveness by Condition Type
Document Overview
Every state RHTP application proposes telehealth expansion.
RHTP-04.TD3
Workforce Pipeline Timeline Analysis
Document Overview
States cannot train their way out of workforce shortage within RHTP timelines.