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reform, Georgia General Assembly legislation, Congressional and state
legislators, news reports, op/ed pieces, and more. Use (or create) your
twitter account to stay up-to-date. Ask to follow GRHA on
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Greg Dent
Nannette Turner
Mary Kate Pung
Sallie Barker
Skip Willcox
Denise Kornegay
Deidra Howell
Johhny Grant
Michael Purvis
Chris Parker
Ann Addison
Carla Belcher
Sue Nieman
Katherine Cummings
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GRHA circulates state and national news as an information service only. Inclusion of information is not intended as an endorsement.
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Best Practices Survey
 GRHA is surveying communities across the state to compile a database
reflecting best practices we all can use to improve rural health.
Designed with your time in mind, the components of the brief survey
include who is offering the program, what the program goals are, who
the program serves, why it is offered, the impact it has in the
community/state, and staff contact information.
Please click the Best Practices Survey under Quick Links at left.
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GRHA Annual Meeting, September 20-22, 2010
Call for Abstracts
GRHA would like to remind students of the May 22, 2010 deadline for
submitting Student Posters. Please be sure to click the link under the Quick Links session of this
newsletter.
GRHA has also posted the Call for Abstracts Speaker Session. The deadline for submission is June 15, 2010. Please follow the link under Quick Links.
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May is Mental Health Month
Since 1949, May has been officially recognized as Mental  Health Month.
The focus for this year's awareness campaign is the mental health of
young people.
Mental
disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An
estimated 22.1 percent of Americans ages 18 and older-about 1 in 5
adults-suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.1
Mental disorders can also affect children. According to the National
Mental Health Association (NMHA), mental health problems affect one in
five young people.
Recognizing
the signs of mental illness is important. Feelings of sadness, anxiety,
worry, or sleep problems are not uncommon. However, when these feelings
get very intense, last for long periods of time, or begin to interfere
with school, friendships and other relationships, it may be a sign of a
mental illness. Depression, attention- deficit/hyperactivity disorder,
and anxiety, conduct, and eating disorders are all types of diagnosable
mental disorders found in children. Although mental disorders in
children are appearing more often, great advances have been made in the
areas of diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
FOH website
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SOWEGA-AHEC
CURE Webinars Archived for Additional Viewing
Clinical Updates
via Rural E-CME (CURE) Activities
Archived Programs
Now Available with CME, CE, ACPE
Pneumonia:
Variations & Interventions, Always a
Challenge
William A. Guest, MD,
FCCP
Southwest
Georgia Clinical
Campus
Medical
College of Georgia School of
Medicine
For Program Info and
Registration:
www.sowega-ahec-cure1.eventbrite.com
Diabetes
Management in the New Millennium: Shifting the
Paradigm
Frances E. Ferguson, MD,
MPH
Albany Area
Primary Health Care
For Program Info and
Registration:
www.sowega-ahec-cure2a.eventbrite.com
Are
You Prepared for Meaningful Use?
R. Clay Stephenson, MSHS,
PMP
Maestro
Strategies
For Program Info and
Registration:
www.sowega-ahec-cure3a.eventbrite.com
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GRHA Members
 If your organization has an upcoming event and you would like to have it posted in our e-newsletter and on our website, please email the information to me at clogue@grhainfo.org. GRHA is interested in what is happening with our members and would like to share your news.
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Save the Dates
Treatment Update on Thyroid Cancer
May 5, 2010
Orientation to Adult HIV Care
May 6-7, 2010
Atlanta, GA
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation
A PPP Conversion: An Australian
Leader's Road from Foe to Friend of Tolls
Noon, Friday, May 14, 2010
The Commerce Club, 34 Broad Street, Atlanta, GA 30303
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation
Getting Georgians Out of Gridlock
8 a.m., Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The Georgian Club, 100 Galleria Parkway, Suite 1700 Atlanta, GA 30339
NRHA 33rd Annual Health Conference
May 18-21
Savannah, GA
MCG- School of Dentistry--GA Oral Health Workforce
Loan Repayment Application due June 1
Full details
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