This edition of Rural Route contains the Flex State Profile for Arizona. If you have not yet completed your Flex State Profile, please do! If you have any questions, please contact Kate Stenehjem. We would like to have complete information for all states as soon as possible so information as a national Flex Program can be shared and your stories can be highlighted at the upcoming 2011 National Conference of State Flex Programs.
This edition includes a variety of new resources shared by State Flex Programs:
- Health Information Technology (HIT) Consortium in Colorado
- Diabetes Tele-Education Program in Virginia
- Use of the Baldrige Framework to address Flex Program challenges in Nebraska
Also included in this edition: an updated HIT resource on the incentive programs and available resources; educational calls from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on registration for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program; rural research on nurse staffing and performance improvement in rural hospitals; and book club book offerings.
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