This program supports one year of planning and brings together key parts of a rural health care delivery system, particularly those entities that may not have collaborated in the past, to establish and/or improve local capacity in order to strengthen rural community health interventions, and enhance care coordination.
For the purposes of this program, an integrated health care network is defined as an organizational arrangement among at least three regional or local health care organizations that come together to develop strategies for improving health services in a community.
The Network Planning program uses the concept of developing networks as a strategy toward linking rural health care network members together to address local challenges, and help rural stakeholders achieve greater collective capacity to overcome challenges related to limited economies of scale for individual hospitals, clinics, or other key rural health care stakeholders.
The intent of the Network Planning Program is to allow applicants maximum flexibility to tailor their projects to the unique rural community needs based on historical health care context, community input, and relevant data sources. Due to the flexible nature of the Network Planning Program, rural health priorities, such as those outlined in the AHE track, complement the goals of the larger Network Planning Program.
Applicants must describe planning activities that support at least one (1) of the legislative aims below:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
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