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Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP)
Click to view the SHIP Application for the period of September 1, 2012 to August 31, 2013.
The following information is from the Office of Rural Health Policy….
“FY12 SHIP funds will support activities related to quality improvement and investments towards meaningful use of health information technology. Hospitals will continue to participate in delivery system reforms outlined in the Affordable Care Act by supporting activities related to:
1. Value-based Purchasing (VBP) - Improving data collection activities in order to facilitate reporting to hospital compare.
2. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) - Improving quality outcomes. Focus on activities that support quality improvement such as reduction of medical errors as well as education and training in data collection and reporting and benchmarking.
3. Payment Bundling - Building accountability across the continuum of care. Funding could be used to improve care transitions between ambulatory and acute, acute to upstream acute and acute to step-down facility. This could be done in the form of training, clinical care transition protocol development or data collection that documents these processes.
4. Prospective Payment Systems (PPS) - Maintaining accurate PPS billing and coding, such as updating chargemasters, providing training in billing and coding, ICD-10 implementation.”
The Small Rural Hospital Improvement Grant Program (SHIP) was authorized by the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999. The initial purpose was to help small rural hospitals meet the costs of implementing data systems required to meet requirements of the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS). However, the first appropriations for the SHIP Program were not made until FY 2002. In this appropriations bill the stated purposes of the program included: (a) meeting requirements for the Medicare Prospective Program (PPS), (b) complying with provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and (c) reducing medical errors and supporting quality improvement (QI). The annual federal appropriation for the SHIP Program has been approximately $15,000,000. There are approximately 1,600 rural hospitals in the United States designated as being qualified as SHIP facilities. For purposes of the SHIP Program, a small rural hospital is defined as one having 49, or fewer, beds and located outside a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). All Critical Access Hospitals are automatically eligible for SHIP funding.
Montana has 47 hospitals which meet the federal definition for SHIP facilities. Click here to view a map of all 47 hospitals with the SHIP program. For each of the past five years, the Montana Office of Rural Health (MORH) has received funding for the SHIP Program and awarded individual subcontracts/grants to the following 47 hospitals:
Barrett Hospital & Healthcare-Dillon
Beartooth Hospital & Health Center-Red Lodge
Big Horn Memorial Hospital-Hardin
Big Sandy Medical Center-Big Sandy
Broadwater Health Center-Townsend
Central Montana Medical Center-Lewistown
Clark Fork Valley Hospital-Plains
Community Hospital-Anaconda
Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association-Ekalaka
Daniels Memorial Hospital-Scobey
Fallon Medical Complex-Baker
Fort Belknap Health Center-Harlem
Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital-Glasgow
Garfield County Health Center-Jordan
Glendive Medical Center-Glendive
Granite County Medical Center-Philipsburg
Holy Rosary Health Care-Miles City
Liberty County Hospital & Nursing Home-Chester
Livingston Healthcare-Livingston
Madison Valley Hospital & Clinic-Ennis
Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital-Hamilton
Marias Medical Center-Shelby
McCone County Health Center-Circle
Mineral Community Hospital-Superior
Missouri River Medical Center-Fort Benton
Mountainview Medical Center-White Sulphur Springs
North Valley Hospital-Whitefish
Northeast Montana Health Services-Wolf Point
Northern Montana Hospital-Havre
Northern Rockies Medical Center-Cut Bank
Phillips County Medical Center-Malta
Pioneer Medical Center-Big Timber
Pondera Medical Center-Conrad
Powell County Medical Center-Deer Lodge
Prairie Community Health Center-Terry
Roosevelt Memorial Medical Center-Culbertson
Rosebud Health Care Center-Forsyth
Roundup Memorial Healthcare-Roundup
Ruby Valley Hospital-Sheridan
Sheridan Memorial Hospital-Plentywood
Sidney Health Center-Sidney
St. John’s Lutheran Hospital-Libby
St. Joseph Medical Center-Polson
St. Luke Community Hospital-Ronan
Stillwater Community Hospital & Nursing Home-Columbus
Teton Medical Center-Choteau
Wheatland Memorial Hospital-Harlowton
Contacts
Kristin Juliar, Director
406-994-6003
kjuliar@montana.edu
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