Category: Podcast

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.

Today, we zero in on how rural hospitals can deal with the growing complexity of the regulatory environment.

Gaining community support through fundraising can be difficult for rural hospitals thanks to limited time, resources, and personnel dedicated to this effort.

This week, JJ and Rachel continue in part 2. of our discussion about the importance of strategic planning.

This week in part 1, JJ and Rachel sit down to talk about the importance of strategic planning.

This week, we continue the discussion on the value rural hospitals bring when partnering with larger systems and organizations.

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.

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.

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 »

Connecting with federal government decision makers is an important t part of rural hospital advocacy efforts. But without a Washington DC base, it’s not easy to cultivate those relationships.