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1. How does the Small Hospital Improvement Program work?

Hospitals receive direct grant funds, ranging between $8,000 and $11,000, depending on grant year to use towards:

• Improving data collection activities in order to facilitate reporting to Hospital Compare
• Maintaining accurate billing and coding systems
• Building accountability across the continuum of care and improving care transitions between ambulatory and acute, acute to upstream acute and acute to step-down facility
• Improving quality outcomes
• Focusing on activities that support QI such as reduction of medical errors as well as education and training in data collection and reporting and benchmarking

2. Who are eligible for SHIP grants?

To be eligible for these grants, a hospital must:

• Have 49 available beds or less, as reported on the hospital's most recently filed Medicare Cost Report
• Be in a rural area, (located outside a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) or located in a rural census tract of an MSA as determined under the Goldsmith Modification)
• Be defined as a non-Federal, short-term, general acute care facility