Our Expertise
Technical assistance at the Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) is tailored to support communities in building capacity as they work to improve the health and wellbeing of community residents. The center has extensive experience working on programmatic and partnership development with community collaboratives and other public and private entities implementing health-improvement initiatives. Our technical assistance (TA) is focused on:
Strategy
Capacity
Sustainability
Our Approach
Informed by work with and in thousands of communities, GHPC’s technical assistance services are rooted in support to achieve long-term viability of community-based health initiatives. GHPC’s Sustainability Framework 2.0© defines these key drivers of sustainability and provides a framework to organize the work that people and organizations do to achieve long-term sustainability. It guides technical assistance around areas of strategic purpose, contextual relevance, practical alignment, data utilization, active collaboration, effective communication, visionary leadership and resource diversification.
Strategic Purpose
All partners share a vision and their actions are aligned.
Contextual Relevance
The initiative adapts to the current environment, as well as emerging trends and issues.
Practical Alignment
The initiative provides a relevant solution to a known need or demand for services identified by the population being served.
Data Utilization
Those involved collect and analyze data to show impact and long-term value.
Active Collaboration
Partners share responsibility, risks, and rewards among partners.
Effective Communication
There are processes to exchange information, broaden awareness, and share successes.
Visionary Leadership
Leaders of the initiative and partnership inspire others around a strategic purpose, are committed to the desired community outcomes, and share a willingness to direct resources to sustain the effort.
While the Sustainability Framework provides the foundation for technical assistance, support is tailored to the specific needs of each organization, partnership, and community. Each grantee is matched with a dedicated technical assistance provider who works collaboratively to identify and address their unique priorities. This support is further enhanced by access to GHPC’s broader network of specialized subject matter experts across a range of topics relevant to rural health programs.
FORHP Grant Programs
The Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) delivers tailored TA to Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP)-funded programs, supporting efforts to expand access to care and address the unique health challenges faced by rural communities.
Care Coordination
This program is focused on improving care coordination in five primary focus areas to include heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, or maternal health.
Delta MCC
This program provides support to rural communities in the Delta States (Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee) to improve and increase access to care for pregnant women and new mothers during and after pregnancy.
Delta States
This program provides support to rural communities in the Delta States (Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee) to implement preventive or clinical health services for chronic diseases.
Network Development
This program provides support to mature networks of rural health care providers and community health partners to integrate administrative, clinical, technological and financial functions to improve access and quality of health care in rural areas.
Northern Border
This program promotes the delivery of health care services to rural underserved populations in the rural Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) Region of Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont.
Outreach
This program provides support to promote rural health care services outreach projects utilizing evidence-based or promising practice models in order to address community-specific health concerns.
Quality Improvement
This program provides support for the Rural Quality Program and is to support planning and implementation of quality improvement activities for rural primary care providers or providers of health care services, such as a critical access hospital or a rural health clinic, serving rural residents.
RMOMS
This program seeks to improve maternal care in rural communities by collecting data on rural hospital obstetric services, building networks to coordinate continuum of care, leveraging telehealth and specialty care, and improving financial sustainability.
Workforce Training Network
This program seeks to expand public health capacity by supporting health care job development, training and placement in rural and tribal communities.