National Rural Health Association

Connect and collaborate with colleagues from across the country July 18-20 in Seattle for NRHA's 7th annual Rural Quality and Clinical Conference. This interactive event is designed for quality and performance improvement coordinators, researchers, students, hospital administrators, and doctors and nurses practicing on the front lines of rural health care.

NRHA is now accepting presentation submissions for the 2013 Annual Rural Health Conference through July 31. NRHA has extended the call for presentations for its 2012 Rural Multicultural and Multiracial Health Conference through June 1. The 36th Annual Rural Health Conference will be May 7-10 2013 in Louisville, Ky. The Multicultural and Multiracial event will be Dec. 5-6 in Asheville, N.C.

Join NRHA's fight to protect the Medicare Dependent Hospital designation and the low-volume hospital adjuster. These vital programs will expire Oct. 1 if congressional action is not taken. NRHA developed tools to help you fight for the rural health care delivery system and will lead a free educational and advocacy event July 30 and 31 in D.C.

Click here to visit the action kit and here to register for the event.

NRHA is proud to release a report entitled “Rural Relevance Under Healthcare Reform: A Performance-Based Assessment of Rural Health care in America” presenting summary findings from research conducted by iVantage Health Analytics. The report sheds new, multi-dimensional light on the rural healthcare delivery systems using the latest Medicare shared Savings data files, the first nationwide hospital rating system to evaluate rural hospitals, and the industry’s largest proprietary rural Emergency Department database.

Click here for the press release and here for the full report.

Check out the latest issue of NRHA’s Rural Roads magazine for these stories, member updates and much more:
• a young doctor’s personal account of caring for a community – and himself – after a school shooting
• personnel working for the rural hospitals where they were born
• telehealth funding resources
• how one student’s decision to text and drive changed a small town and inspired her family to educate others