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Mayo Clinic Health receives grant to improve rural health care
Mayo Clinic Health System Practice-Based Research Network is sharing in an $11 million government grant to lead the creation of a national learning collaborative among rural health care providers. The effort is part of a national partnership using the Health Care Innovation Award funded by the Affordable Care Act, according to a press release.
The network is partnering with rural clinical and communities to help them work together to deliver better health care. It is leading the efforts within the grant to create and evaluate the outcomes of sustainable local learning collaborative that will drive health practice improvements. Partners in the project include the Mineral Regional Health Center, Superior, Mont.; The Appalachian Osteopathic Postgraduate Training Institute Consortium, Pikeville, Ky.; iVantage Health Analytics, Portland, Maine; and Montana’s frontier and rural health care communities. The specific award — the Frontier Medicine Better Health Partnership — is intended to develop and implement a network to standardize operations and efficiencies across Montana’s medical practices, including tertiary care centers, critical access hospitals and rural health clinical. Training will be provided to participating sites, and support will include health improvement specialists, electronic health record specialists and data analysis, according to the release.