Rural Healthcare
Advocacy Resources
This page is an open-access collection of resources for the community to build our capacity to become health advocates as activists, organizers, educators and healthcare system leaders.
Advocacy
Tools for Change
CT Health Advocacy Toolbox from CT Health Policy Project with practical information about health care about advocating for effective health policy reform in CT - https://cthealthpolicy.org/index.php/resources-2/advocacy-tool- box/
Power Mapping Union of Concerned Scientists – A Toolkit - Power Mapping Your Way to Success
Community Catalyst – an early and vital resource to SaveDKH - https://communitycatalyst.org/
Community Healthcare Partnerships
https://communitiesofexcellence2026.org/ Helping Communities Improve Their Performance - Communities of Excellence Malcolm Baldrige Award – the Seventh Category
Models for Change
Robert Wood Johnson “A Playbook for Fostering Hospital-Community Partnerships to Build a Culture of Health” https://www.aha.org/system/files/hpoe/Reports-HPOE/2017/A-playbook-for-fostering-hospitalcommunity-partnerships.pdf (or download here)
Robert Wood Johnson Stretch Initiative: Strategies to Repair Equity and Transform Community Health (STRETCH) Initiative
https://www.cdcfoundation.org/programs/stretch
Healthcare Models
Telehealth
New England Telehealth Consortium (NETC) http://www.netelc.org/contact.html
CT and featured resources https://www.netrc.org/connecticut.php
Northeast Telehealth Resource Center (Margaret was the founding director) https://www.netrc.org
Healthcare Trends and Challenges
National Institute of Health Care Management (NIHCM) “What’s the Big Deal? Hospital Consolidation: Trends, Impacts and Outlook https://nihcm.org/assets/articles/nihcm-consolidation-charts-updated-010920.pdf (or download here)
Northeastern Connecticut and Connecticut Health Resources
Healthy Connecticut 2025, State Health Improvement Plan, Connecticut Health Improvement Coalition, https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DPH/State-Health-Planning/CT_DPH_SHIP_Report_r1-10-6-2021.pdf (or download here)
Northeastern Connecticut Council of Governments (NECCOG) https://neccog.org/ and Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy https://neccog.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/NECCOG-CEDS-Final.pdf (or download here)
Northeast District Department of Health https://www.nddh.org/
Rural Health in Connecticut https://www.ctdatahaven.org/reports/rural-health-connecticut-2022 (or download here)
Connecticut State Office of Rural Health https://www.ruralhealthct.org/
Rural Healthcare
Rural Hospitals and Rural Healthcare
New England Rural Health Association https://www.nerha.org/
America’s Essential Hospitals- Essential Data - Our Hospitals Our Patients
Saving Rural Hospitals
Rural Hospital Programs Health Resources & Services Administration, technical assistance and support, https://www.hrsa.gov/rural-health/grants/rural-hospitals New
Causes of Rural Hospital Problems - https://ruralhospitals.chqpr.org/Problems.html#the-magnitude-of-financial-losses-at-rural-hospitals
How to Prevent Rural Hospital Closures - https://ruralhospitals.chqpr.org/Solutions.html
Rural Health Information Hub – resources, information, tool kits, models, funding, data and more - https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/
Rural Healthcare – Federal and State Government Resources
CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) – Advancing Rural Health Equity https://www.cms.gov/files/document/advancing-rural-health-equity-11-2022.pdf (or download document here)
Health Resources & Services Administration – Rural Health Research and Policy
https://www.hrsa.gov/rural-health/grants/rural-health-research-policy
National Conference of State Legislators – Improving Rural Health: State Policy Options for Increasing Access to Care
https://www.ncsl.org/health/improving-rural-health
Rural Development
Rural Development Hubs: The Aspen Institute
https://www.aspencsg.org/rural-development-hubs-report/ (download here)
Trainings-Webinars
Coming soon...
Contact: info@SaveDKH.org to get more information on the project and to join the team
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