Following are implementation tools, financing considerations, and evaluation strategies that providers, health plans, and other interested stakeholders can use when seeking to improve care for older adults in rural communities.
Leveraging Community Paramedicine to Address Rural Health Needs
This tool explores how community paramedicine programs can help address workforce shortages, improve access to care, and enable both paramedics and their clinical team partners to practice at the top of their training and licensure.
Developing Successful Palliative Care Teams in Rural Communities: A Facilitated Process
A capacity-building framework supported the development of community-based palliative care services for adults in several rural communities.
PACE Telehealth Playbook: Using Telehealth to Care for Seniors at Programs for the All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly
This tool helps PACE programs integrate telehealth services to deliver high-quality senior care while reducing costs.
Implementing and Sustaining Rural Community Paramedicine
Strategies, challenges, and opportunities in supporting the implementation and sustainability of community paramedicine programs in rural communities.
Sustainability Strategies for Community-Based Palliative Care
Key strategies to help implement and sustain rural palliative care programs include blended funding and value-based reimbursement models.
Rural Community Paramedicine Toolkit
Toolkit offers health care stakeholders in rural areas with practical information to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of community paramedicine programs.
Alliance for PACE Innovation and Quality: Model Practices and Resources
Tool offers guidance and resources to support states in implementing and expanding access to high-quality PACE services.
