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Greg Dent
Nannette Turner
Mary Kate Pung
Sallie Barker
Skip Willcox
Denise Kornegay
Deidre Howell
Johnny Grant
Michael Purvis
Chris Parker
Ann Addison
Carla Belcher
Sue Nieman
Katherine Cummings
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GRHA 2010 Awards of Excellence
 Honor a champion of rural healthcare by nominating them for a GRHA Award of Excellence. Recipients will be recognized during the GRHA Awards Reception on Monday evening, September 20 at Brasstown Valley Resort.
Award categories and nomination forms, and registration information are available online. Mark your calendar now for a great meeting with healthcare leaders from across the state and region with GRHA.
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Membership Co-chairs Announce Savings for Annual Meeting
Registration
 Sharon Norman (Executive Director of Blue Ridge AHEC) and Sheila
Freeman (Executive Director of Spring Creek Health Cooperative) are co-chairing
GRHA's Membership Committee. They have created a membership recruitment
challenge that could net someone tidy savings on Annual Meeting costs.
The first person to recruit one organization, one individual, and
one elected official to join GRHA may register for 2010 Annual Meeting at no
cost (current members would save $250. Someone joining as an organization at
$275 would get one year of membership AND free registration at the conference)!
If someone is especially industrious, and also recruit a student
member, they may register a second person for the conference with $50.00
savings (that could save organization at least $300.00).
Look around your community and see who is invested in rural
health and ask them to join GRHA. Need to check and see if someone is a member?
We will be glad to help so you can meet this challenge first. Contact the
office at 478.552.3620 or email Carole Logue at clogue@grhainfo.org.
Members can also log into our member pages and check http://grhainfo.org/members/member_post.phpfor a current list of members.
Good luck!
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Tell Us Your Success Story
 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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Public Health Matters - JPHCOPH Newsletter
 Public Health Matters is a publication of the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University.
The 2010 Spring edition offers news of being one step closer to earning their Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accreditation. JPHCOPH self study was just accepted by CEPH. The Accreditation Specialist at CEPH informed JPHCOPH they are moving forward with JPHCOPH scheduled site visit - September 20 -22, 2010.
The JPHCOPH faculty and staff will move into Hendricks Hall June/July 2010.
The new facility is 40,135 square feet and will house all faculty and staff and includes classrooms, computer laboratories, BSL 1-2-3 laboratories, seminar/conference rooms. Equipment for the students was provided through student technology fees.
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GRHA Congratulates Morehouse School of Medicine
Morehou se School of Medicine ranked first among U.S. medical schools for its social mission, according to a study.
The study appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine.The study
measured schools on their production of primary care physicians,
minority doctors, and doctors practicing in underserved areas.
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A Poor Nation, With a Health Plan
 Rwanda has had national health insurance for 11 years now; 92 percent of the nation is covered, and the premiums are $2 a year.
The insurance covers the basics. The most common causes of death - diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, malnutrition, infected cuts - are treated.
Local health centers usually have all the medicines on the World Health Organization's
list of essential drugs (nearly all are generic copies of name-brand
drugs) and have laboratories that can do routine blood and urine analysis, along with tuberculosis and malaria tests.
Since the insurance, known as health mutuals, rolled out, average life expectancy has risen to 52 from 48, despite a continuing AIDS
epidemic, according to Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, permanent secretary of
Rwanda's Ministry of Health. Deaths in childbirth and from malaria are
down sharply, she added.
>>Read full story
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Save the Dates
Tabletop Disaster Exercises for Health Care Providers
Disaster Resistant Communities Group
www.drc-group.com/healthcare
GRHA 2010 Annual Meeting
Keepin' It Rural
Brasstown Valley Resort
September 20-22
2010 Pine Mountain Challenge
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Midland, GA
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