Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health (Quality Chasm)

Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Future of Rural Health Care

ISBN 10: 0309094399 / ISBN 13: 9780309094399

Published by National Academies Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health (Quality Chasm)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309094399
• ISBN 13: 9780309094399
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health offers a strategy to address the quality challenges in rural communities.

Rural America is a vital, diverse component of the American community, representing nearly 20% of the population of the United States. Rural communities are heterogeneous and differ in population density, remoteness from urban areas, and the cultural norms of the regions of which they are a part. As a result, rural communities range in their demographics and environmental, economic, and social characteristics. These differences influence the magnitude and types of health problems these communities face.

Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health assesses the quality of health care in rural areas and provides a framework for core set of services and essential infrastructure to deliver those services to rural communities. The book recommends:

• Adopting an integrated approach to addressing both personal and population health needs
• Establishing a stronger health care quality improvement support structure to assist rural health systems and professionals
• Enhancing the human resource capacity of health care professionals in rural communities and expanding the preparedness of rural residents to actively engage in improving their health and health care
• Assuring that rural health care systems are financially stable
• Investing in an information and communications technology infrastructure

It is critical that existing and new resources be deployed strategically, recognizing the need to improve both the quality of individual-level care and the health of rural communities and populations.

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Committee on The Future of Rural Health Care