CATCH RURAL Falls

Coordinated Action Toward Community Health: RedUce Risk And Limit Falls

The Coordinated Action Toward Community Health: RedUce Risk And Limit – “CATCH RURAL” – Falls Program is a quality improvement program to provide education and resources to promote fall risk management in Nebraska Rural Health Clinics and improve care for older adults in rural communities. This program supports the adoption and implementation of the Centers for Disease Control's Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injury (STEADI) initiative core components of fall risk screening, assessment, and intervention.

This work, including the creation of this website and related resources, has been supported by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Office of Rural Health through the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (September 2022-present). The content of this website and associated presentations and publications are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Nebraska Office of Rural Health.

Registration for the first program cohort on Fall Risk Screening is now open! See the program flyer for more details. Registration closes December 23, 2024.