With funding from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) is pleased to announce the release of the Critical Access Hospital Blueprint for Performance Excellence. Please feel free to distribute the Blueprint, found at: http://www.ruralcenter.org/tasc/resources/critical-access-hospital-blueprint-performance-excellence, and the attached press releases to your rural stakeholders and critical access hospitals. Please see below for additional information about this useful Blueprint and critical success factors for managing the complexities of the changing healthcare environment in critical access hospitals.