On behalf of the Health Resources Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), and Delta Regional Authority (DRA), The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) has announced that Tallahatchie General Hospital has been selected to participate in the Delta Region Community Health Systems Development (DRCHSD) Program.
Through the DRCHSD Program, the DRA and FORHP have partnered to support rural communities with an opportunity to receive intensive technical assistance.
The assistance consists of various assessments, onsite consultations, workshops and educational trainings, all provided through a multi-year phased-in approach.
The program is designed to increase the sustainability and efficiency of local health care delivery system practices by focusing on care coordination, social services integration, access to emergency medical services and workforce recruitment and retention.
Support is provided to help each organization :
• Improve financial position and increase operational efficiencies
• Implement quality im-provements that support an evidenced-based culture for improved health outcomes
• Address workforce re-cruitment and retention needs
• Increase use of telemedicine to fill service gaps and access to care
• Ensure access to and availability of Emergency Medical Services
• Integrate social services to address socio-economic challenges
• Enhance coordination of care and develop a community care coordination plan
• Strengthen the local health care delivery system to position for population health
With the support of the DRA and FORHP, The Center is proud to recognize Tallahatchie General Hospital for this outstanding opportunity. The Center looks forward to working with Tallahatchie General Hospital and its community of Charleston.
“We are extremely pleased and honored to have been selected to participate in this grant,” said TGH CEO Jim Blackwood. “We believe we will be able to leverage the technical assistance offered in this grant to expand and improve upon the services that TGH offers to the community.”
To learn more about the DRA and FORHP collaboration to support rural communities through the DRCHSD Program, visit the Delta Regional Authority website at https://dra.gov.
