11/14/2008
RWHC Recommended Narrative for the IRS Form 990. Each rural hospital is unique and depending upon a hospital’s distance from another hospital, this recommended supplemental narrative text may make sense to include in a rural hospital’s IRS Form 990, Schedule H, Part VI.
09/27/2008
Observations Regarding the Interface of Politics, Policy & Research: As Illustrated in Recent Issues of RWHC's Eye On Health by Tim Size, Executive Director for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Seminar.
07/31/2008
Testimony: “Assuring Healthcare ‘Reform’ Doesn’t Bypass Rural America” by Tim Size before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, A Hearing on “Growing Old in Rural America” July 31st, 2008. Executive Summary or Complete Testimony as Submitted.
05/11/08
Wisconsin’s Strong Rural Community Initiative: Discussion Paper #1: Statewide Support for Business Sector to Expand Wellness Initiatives. This paper is the first in a series of five discussion papers with policy recommendations promised by the Strong Rural Communities Initiative as a deliverable in commitments made to its major funders–the Wisconsin Partnership Fund and the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health at the University of Wisconsin and the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Fund at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
06/04/08
"How are Federal & State Policies Likely to Affect Rural Health?" a PPT by Tim Size, RWHC Executive Director for the Fort HealthCare Leadership Team, June 4th, 2008.
01/08/08
What is the CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) impact on rural health , on Critical Access Hospitals and Rural Health Clinics? There may be other issues, but this is a summary of the five issues that we heard the most about during the fall of 2007.
10/03/07
"The Future of Rural Healthcare?” by Tim Size for the NRHA CAH Conference, San Antonio, Texas, (PPT) & ( handout -large file!)
06/06/07
"Innovative Community Partnerships: Jackson County’s proACTIVE Wellness Initiative"Jackson County recognizes that strategies and approaches to overcome obesity and preventable health problems cannot be developed and implemented by health agencies alone. This summary describes a community initiative that is successfully incorporating the hospital, public health, school district, and local businesses to build and launch worksite wellness programs that are making a difference.
08/27/09
"A Rural Health Network’s Strategy to Create and Sustain the Rural Health Care Workforce" by Tim Size, RWHC Executive Director for the HRSA ORHP All-Programs Meeting, Washington D.C., August 29th, 2007. Available as PPT or handout (large file, may take a couple minutes).
08/07/09
"Rural Population Health, Hospital Balanced Scorecards and Community Collaboration" by Tim Size, RWHC Executive Director for the Kansas Rural Health Options Project, Wichita, Kansas, August 7th, 2007. Available as PPT or handout (large file, may take a couple minutes).
04/02/07
"Small Numbers Matter" by Tim Size, Executive Director, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative. "A diverse crowd of clinicians, administrators, academics, consultants and policy makers met in Dallas-Fort Worth in late March at the wonky but well named National Conference on Small Numbers. Thanks to the Federal Agency for Health Research and Quality for being the primary sponsor as “small numbers” is an issue that rural health and rural health providers need to address in a big way."
02/06/06
"Contemporary Issues in RuralHealthcare: In Honor of James D. Bernstein (1942-2005)," North Carolina Medical Journal, January/February, 2006. Included is “Leadership Development for Rural Health” by Tim Size, NC Med J 2006;67(1):71-76
05/20/05
"Public Reporting of Hospital Quality in Rural Communities: an Initial Set of Key Issues," A Policy Brief adopted by The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) on May 20th, 2005 (pdf file).
03/25/05
"Commentary: Population Health Improvement & Rural Hospital Balanced Scorecards" by Tim Size, MBA, David Kindig, MD, PhD & Clint MacKinney, MD, MS. The text is as submitted by the authors to the Journal of Rural Health. The version of this article edited after peer review can be found in the Spring 2006 Issue of the Journal of Rural Health published by the National Rural Health Association. A full text electronic version of the published version of the article is archived at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com