​​The following resources have been developed to assist small hospitals, wherever they may be on their journey toward implementing a rural health hub model.
 
Implementing Fully-Integrated Rural Health Hubs
Prepared by Jim Whaley, Implementing Fully Integrated Rural Health Hubs, is aimed at demonstrating the feasibility, patient benefit and administrative efficiency of implementing fully integrated rural health hubs. The author explored health hubs’ various attributes based on conversations with eight reference hospitals that served as the project working group, whose experiences and context are also profiled within the paper. The paper clearly sets out the case for conducting fully integrated health hub pilot projects and guidance around their implementation.

Evaluating Fully-Integrated Rural Heath Hubs
In a paper prepared by the Canadian Centre for Health Economics (CCHE), authors Dr. Audrey Laporte and Dr. Brian Ferguson explored the development of a framework for evaluating fully-integrated rural health hubs in Ontario. While the paper distinguished between three broad types of efficiency gain: technical efficiency, scale efficiency, and allocative efficiency – it suggested that a traditional focus on technical efficiency masked gains realized through allocative efficiency.

Rural Health Hub Framework for Ontario
The Rural Health Hub Framework was developed by the Multi-Sector Rural Health Hub Advisory Committee, to help support rural communities in moving forward with rural health hubs. 

Local Health Hubs Paper
Prepared by Jim Whaley, the 2013 Report entitled Local Health Hubs for Rural and Northern Communities: An Integrated Service Delivery Model Whose Time Has Come was developed in response to a request made by Deb Matthews, Ontario's former Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, at the 2012 Ontario Hospital Association Rural and Northern Health Care conference. In particular, Minister Matthews asked for advice on what a “health hub” would look like for small, rural and northern (SRN) hospitals. The paper, presents a clear vision of the future role of small hospitals within rural communities. 

Enhancing Access through Innovation: Success Stories from SRN Hospitals
This collection of success stories serve as a source of inspiration for other communities that are also working to provide accessible, coordinated care within their communities.