Episode 81: Reducing Transfers from Rural Hospi...
43 min
102
Episode 80: A Legislative Legacy: Standing Up a...
On today’s episode, hosts JJ and Rachel talk with Mike Shirkey, State Senate Majority Leader, about ensuring rural hospitals are heard at the state legislative level.
43 min
103
Episode 79: Life as a CRNA in a Rural Hospital
On today’s episode, hosts JJ and Rachel talk with John Gadwood, CRNA at Hillsdale Hospital, about managing an advanced practice provider group in rural America.
43 min
104
Episode 78: Making Infusion Centers Possible in...
On today’s episode, hosts JJ and Rachel talk with Jacob Dozier from Community Infusion Solutions about how partners can make specialty services possible for rural hospitals.
41 min
105
Episode 77: Rural Health Policy & Advocacy
Rural hospitals and healthcare providers are constantly facing new challenges as the healthcare industry changes and as regulations shift.
45 min
106
Episode 76: Legislative Update
While much of the funding for rural hospitals comes through the federal government, state legislatures also play a key role in funding, supporting and safeguarding their rural hospitals. So, how do rural hospitals ensure their needs are prioritized in the state budget and through state law?
41 min
107
Episode 75: The De-Humanization of Medicine & H...
Rural hospitals are often praised for their personalized approach of neighbors caring for neighbors, but along with the rest of the healthcare industry, rural providers are not immune to the increasingly less human-centered care that we sometimes see today.
38 min
108
Episode 74: How Regulations & Industry Trends I...
Rural hospitals have faced significant financial strain to the point of closure for more than 140 hospitals since 2010. Additionally, we are seeing many others facing a high and/or immediate risk of closing in the near future.
41 min
109
Episode 73: Part 2: How the Pandemic Impacted ...
This week, JJ and Rachel continue their discussion on how the pandemic impacted individuals with disabilities with Michigan Supreme Court Justice, Richard Bernstein.
29 min
110
Episode 73: Part 1: How the Pandemic Impacted I...
COVID-19 has had significant impacts on all sectors of the population for the past three years, but has created particular challenges for those with disabilities who use hearing and touch as communication.
41 min
111
Episode 72: How Hospital Associations Support &...
In rural healthcare, it is essential to have support advocating for your needs and developing policies that are helpful to rural hospitals while influencing policies that could be hurtful instead.
Connections between rural hospitals and state wide advocacy organizations that can represent them is crucial to hospital success, and even at times, their survival.
54 min
113
Episode 70: Data Collection and Analysis in Rur...
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.
48 min
114
Episode 69: Rules & Regs: Navigating a Complex ...
Today, we zero in on how rural hospitals can deal with the growing complexity of the regulatory environment.
47 min
115
Episode 68: Fundraising Initiatives for Rural H...
Gaining community support through fundraising can be difficult for rural hospitals thanks to limited time, resources, and personnel dedicated to this effort.
42 min
116
A Mini-Sode in Two Parts: Strategic Planning, P...
This week, JJ and Rachel continue in part 2. of our discussion about the importance of strategic planning.
21 min
117
A Mini-Sode in Two Parts: Strategic Planning, P...
This week in part 1, JJ and Rachel sit down to talk about the importance of strategic planning.
41 min
118
Episode 67: The Value Proposition in Rural Hosp...
This week, we continue the discussion on the value rural hospitals bring when partnering with larger systems and organizations.
54 min
119
Episode 66: The Value Proposition in Rural Hosp...
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.
50 min
120
Episode 65: Infection Control
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.
43 min
121
Episode 64: Access to Prenatal Care in Rural Co...
42 min
122
Episode 63: Navigating the Federal Landscape fo...
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.
40 min
123
Episode 62: 340B Discount Drug Program: Making ...
As rural hospitals work to provide the best quality of care for their patients, while maintaining financial solvency, programs like 340B can help make drugs more affordable.
41 min
124
Minisode: Financial Stability in the Post-Pande...
Last week we discussed the myriad of headlines relating to financial losses hospitals are facing across the country. Since then we've seen even more headlines on hospitals posting significant financial losses.
27 min
125
Minisode: Healthcare Industry Aftershocks from ...
JJ and Rachel sit down to talk about the healthcare industry's aftershocks coming on after the pandemic.