Today's rural health care picture is unclear, a condition that will most likely continue for the foreseeable future. Rural Health Resources can help you chart a course for your health care service delivery through the tough times.


Focusing on the Future

Rural Health Resources works with rural departments of health, primary care physicians, hospitals, emergency medical service providers and community groups to design new solutions to today's rural health care delivery challenges:
  • improving access to health care
  • defining emerging organizational developmental needs
  • creating collaborative efforts
  • establishing community and preventive health programs


Finding Solutions That Work for You

Among the rural health care system design issues Rural Health Resources can help you solve:

  • How do small rural hospitals/facilities/providers deal with major operational changes forced upon them by changes in reimbursement, government regulations, managed care, mergers, layoffs, affiliations, and interventions seemingly designed primarily to fit urban institutions?
  • How do you determine future trends in health care delivery?
  • What health care services does your community really want?
  • How will health care providers achieve and maintain financial feasibility in the face of lost revenues?
  • How can you make rural hospitals, primary care clinics, emergency medical services and other health care services accessible in rural environments with stagnant or declining economies?
  • Can rural health networks, grants, needs assessments really help the current situation? Do they?
  • Do state and/or federal designations such as health professional shortage areas help or hinder?


Services and Resources

Rural Health Resources' services include:

  • facilitating meetings, strategic planning sessions or focus groups
  • analyzing research and data
  • researching, writing and managing grants
  • determining the adequacy of primary and preventive health care services from the perspectives of access, quality, cost and consumer satisfaction
  • analyzing and addressing health care system deficiencies and demands
  • setting priorities
  • planning, organizing, managing and directing implementation of solutions


Rural Health Resources is skilled in the administration of ideas, as well as in analyzing and addressing health care system deficiency and demands. We help you identify, address, resolve and monitor problems in your rural health care delivery system, working closely with your personnel.


The Process

Rural Health Resources starts by examining and appraising your current organizational infrastructure. We evaluate the management of people; their skills and knowledge; their leadership, vision and action; and their community mobilization. We look at the operations necessary to support the purposes of community health care delivery.

Rural Health Resources considers the methods, the information, and the networks that are used, or could be used, to link health care providers and systems together. We help design systems that are viable because they use uniform data standards, communications networks and policy level agreements regarding confidentiality, division of labor, job sharing and cross training, and reduction of redundancy.


Rural Health Resources steers you through the turbulence to an integrated rural health infrastructure.



Rural Health Resources
PO Box 111
Wellsville, NY 14895

Phone: (585) 593-2178
Fax: (585) 593-3321





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