What is the future of rural health care and rural hospitals as the Pandemic goes past one year?

HomeTown Health CEO’s and Senior Staff,
Reference: What is the future of rural health care and rural hospitals as the Pandemic goes past one year – answers below and at 2021 HomeTown health Spring Conference, April 13- 16 , 2021- At Georgia’s modernized Resort Jekyll Island, New Technology on show, Live face to face network, and glorious good food. Check it out! 

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Topical subjects that will define the future of rural hospitals and rural health care and will be discussed at the HomeTown 2021 Spring Meeting include much of the following. These discussions will be held with speakers on the agenda, breakout sessions with specialists speaking and the Town Hall Meeting. Incredible educational event. Check out the agenda!

Topical subjects to be discussed:

  1. Shortage of clinical specialists and physicians
  2. Cash management relating to long-term impact of the loss of the CARE’s act money
  3. Regain trust of community that will lead local patients back to the local hospital
    1. Implementation of community-based medicine ( carrying medicine to patient instead of bringing patient to the medicine’s – as in RHC’s)
  1. Technology
    1. Remote patient monitoring
      1. Renal
      2. Cardiology
      3. Diabetic
      4. Autism
      5. Mental Health
    2. Telehealth
    3. Digital payments
  2. Data management
    1. Data Lakes
    2. Predictive Modeling
    3. Algorithmic health care management
  3. Reimbursement transformation
    1. Migrate from DRG and Fee for Service to Population Management and bundling and capitated and risk sharing payments
  4. Leadership shortage
  5. Stockpile management as in centralized material collaboration among rural hospital clusters
  6. Political polarization as in migration of politics and policy to larger urban areas at the expense of rural health care
  7. Major program changes coming from HHS and CMS such as CHART
  8. New industry terms, e.g.,  ( what do they mean?)
    1. Interoperability of systems
    2. Algorithmic and predictive modeling
    3. Data lakes
  9. Risk sharing

Solutions

  1. Much higher levels of personal and Hospital C-suite education in  (e.g.HTHU)
    1. Reimbursement
    2. Capital finance
    3. Balance sheet structure and management
  2. Hands on technology applications and focused technology education driven by new terms such as data analytics
  3. Cash management within federal guidelines as in PPP’s, CARE’s Act, PPE’s, advanced payment models, and risk sharing.
  4. C-suite Political engagement at Grass Roots levels as senior rural legislators retire and/or are replaced by Census and legislative turnover
  5. Networking with peers in rural health care to learn from each other’s experiences and best practices
  6. Collaboration
    1. Compatible clusters of hospitals or service lines or technology similarities
  7. Expanded online education using ZOOM, GoToMeeting, etc.

Sources

  1. HomeTown Health colleagues and their nearly 400 years’ experience together
  2. HomeTown Health Sixty Business Partners who are fully vetted for your ease of selection
  3. HomeTown Health Rural Hospital Relationships with nearly 150 rural hospitals
  4. HomeTown relationships with Georgia legislators and policymakers that have occurred from more than twenty policy maker tours over the last ten years.
  5. HomeTown 2021 Spring Meeting with all of the above in attendance

Frequently asked questions about the meeting:

  1. Can any Business associate attend?
    1. Answer: No. Only HTH vetted and approved Business Partners ( Sherri Ackerman in charge)
  1. Can anybody in the hospitals or other industries attend?
    1. All attendees must be pre-registered.  Non-registered walk-ins will not be authorized.
    2. HomeTown reserves the right for final approval for all registrations
    3. This is necessary for planning purposes for lodging, meals, breakouts and activities.

 

And as always, any and all comments are appreciated. This is an invitation only event. HomeTown Reserves the right to

 Hotel registrations are booking up quick. Looks like best ever attended HomeTown Meeting ( and, btw,  we have had some great ones but this one is shaping up great with largest attendance ever,

This will be a safety protocol driven meeting just like the 2020 Fall Meeting at Callaway, i.e., Masks required throughout, personal temperatures monitored throughout, recent patient history identified relative to Covid-19, and social distancing.