Rural Health Care Outcomes Accelerator

About this program

American Heart Association’s Rural Health Care Outcomes Accelerator is a three-year, nationwide initiative that provides eligible rural hospitals with no-cost access to Get With The Guidelines quality programs for coronary artery disease, heart failure, and stroke, plus AHA quality improvement consultants, rural learning collaboratives, professional education, clinical expert access, and recognition/publication opportunities. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis via the program website and program support is provided at no cost; contact RuralGWTGSupport@heart.org for questions or more information. Eligible applicants are federally designated Critical Access Hospitals and short-term acute care facilities or rural hospitals located in RUCA Codes 4–10 and 99 (see the program website eligibility map for details).