The CEO noted that staff (Julie Crimmins and Janet Fisher) are working on the Evidence‑Based Practice Program, which is part of the State’s Rural Health Transformation Plan. The program aims to help rural hospitals and clinics build and maintain infrastructure to implement and sustain evidence‑based practices and to report performance measures demonstrating quality of care, and the state has contracted with the University of Kansas Health System Care Collaborative to operate it. This suggests the hospital will be enhancing its clinical quality infrastructure, data/reporting capabilities, and potentially workflows and training.Vendors offering quality improvement consulting, clinical decision support, EHR optimization, data analytics, and performance reporting tools may find opportunities to augment the state program’s work at the local level, especially for implementation support and ongoing measurement.

State program operator (KU Health System Care Collaborative) is the primary contractor; hospital-level needs may include local implementation, change management, and training.