The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is soliciting proposals for its Critical Access Hospital Board Training on Engagement, Leadership and Population Health.
Donor Name: Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $49,000
Grant Duration: 7 months 16 days
Details:
The Minnesota Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (Flex Program) receives funds from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) to help critical access hospitals, emergency medical services and health professionals work together. Flex Program funding is intended to provide training or technical assistance to CAHs to build capacity, encourage innovation, and promote sustainable improvements in the rural health care system.
This grant will serve rural communities and rural Minnesotans by way of critical access hospitals and their boards.
This grant seeks to provide training to Critical Access Hospital (CAH) boards. CAHs are a central part of rural communities and crucial to the rural health care safety net. Most of these organizations have some type of governing board that provides direction or input into hospital decision making, ensures community representation, and communicates hospital priorities back to the rural communities they serve. Critical access hospitals are complex health care organizations facing many challenges in sustainability and keeping up with current health care trends. There are limited opportunities for board members to receive training on key policy changes effecting hospital operations.
This grant will serve critical access hospitals and their boards by equipping them with information to understand population health and skills necessary to communicate key concepts for healthcare decision making to improve healthcare delivery in rural Minnesota.
Grant outcomes will include:
- Training opportunity(-ies) for critical access hospital board members with a focus on engagement, leadership and population health.
- Critical access hospital board members will have an understanding of how population health is necessary for hospital operations.
- Board members will gain skills on collaborating with community and hospital staff to make decisions for population health management.
- Grant performance will be measured by the submission of quarterly reports.
Funding Information
- Estimated Amount to Grant: $49,000
- Estimated Award Maximum: $49,000
- Estimated Award Minimum: $15,000
Project Period
The project period is estimated to start January 15, 2024 and will end on August 31, 2024.
Eligible Projects
- Eligible projects will provide training to critical access hospital board members. Topics should be focused on educating board members and proposals may include a combination of material or resource development and/or facilitated conversations. Use of existing resources created by the applicant are acceptable, but proposals should identify how these materials will be made available to boards in ways they are not currently available, or how the training will create and provide new content. Proposals must identify how the applicant will fill gaps in the existing training networks available to for critical access hospital board members. These trainings will be offered at no cost to the hospital or its board.
- Proposals can include a variety of topics that promote board member engagement, community leadership, importance of quality to rural health care delivery, and core concepts of health equity, social determinants of health and population health management. Board members should gain skills necessary for their role as active community leaders
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants include for-profit or non-profit entities with a history of working with critical access hospitals and rural health care. Applicants will be selected based on their ability to complete proposed projects, evidence of experience providing training, evidence of experience working with health care leaders and hospital boards and experience with the proposed subject matter.
For more information, visit MDH.
