Small Rural Hospital and Clinic Finance 101 – An Update

National Rural Health Resource Center Podcasts

The Finance 101 manual has been recently updated! This new manual expands on the former manual that was focused solely on Critical Access Hospitals. The new manual not only includes updates for the Critical Access Hospital but is expanded to include information and guidance for small rural PPS hospitals and rural health clinics. This session will provide an overview of the updates and how Critical Access Hospitals, small rural PPS providers and rural health clinics can utilize the information in this manual for their organizations.

Objectives

• Learn about the Critical Access Hospital updates in the new manual
• Obtain a better understanding of small rural PPShospital issues and strategies
• Acquire information regarding the finances and operations of rural health clinics and strategies to improve performance