Tools & Resources
Health Care Leader Action Guide to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions
This tool (from Commonwealth Fund and Health Research and Education Trust) provides step-by-step instructions to analyze, evaluate, and amend your institution’s practices to reduce readmissions. It can be found in the Healthcare Professional and Advocate guide under...
Conducting Rural Health Research, Needs Assessment, and Program Evaluation
This tool (from Rural Health Information Hub) provides a comprehensive guide to conduct a community health needs assessment that meets the requirements of the Affordable Care Act and the Internal Revenue Service. This tool is intended to be especially helpful to rural hospitals. It can be found in the...
Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim
This website (from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement) provides background information, as well as tools and success stories, about the IHI's Triple Aim to improve the patient experience and population health and to decrease healthcare costs. It can be found in the ...
RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America
This website (from RWJF) includes many reports and recommendations to improve health outside of health care from the RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America.
It can be found in:
- the Community Development guide under...
Beyond Health Care
This tool (from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) provides 10 recommendations from the RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America. The PDF of their report can be downloaded from this site.
It can be found in:...
Evaluation Plan Template
This tool (from CHR&R) helps you create a plan to evaluate your program.
Find it in Evaluate Actions under:...
Tips for Communicating with Policymakers
This tool (from Burness) provides concrete tips for contacting and communicating with policymakers.
Community Health Scorecard Overview
This tool (from Heartland Health) outlines the benchmarks Heartland Health (St. Joseph, MO) uses to measure progress. You can consider these benchmarks as examples.
Submitting an Op-Ed
This tool (from Burness) provides tips on submitting an opinion-editorial (op-ed) for publication in newspapers or online.
Writing an Op-Ed
This tool (from Burness) provides tips on writing an opinion-editorial (op-ed) for publication in newspapers or online.