| 2011 GRHA Board Members | |
Nannette Turner
Greg Dent
Sallie Barker
Denise Kornegay
Deidre Howell
Johnny Grant
Chris Parker
Ann Addison
Carla Belcher
Sue Nieman
Laura Bland
Rhett Partin
Caroline Holley Womack
Sheila Freeman
Matt Caseman |
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2011 Legislative Tracking Reports | |
GRHA Members will be able to log onto our website, grhainfo.org//legislation.htm and view up to date Legislative Tracking Reports and other valuable information for the 2011 Legislative Session. We now have the 2011 Legislative Agenda on the website. |
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2011 Rural Health Day Sponsors | |
Platinum Sponsors
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A special thanks to our Breakfast Sponsor
Georgia Association of Primary Health Care, Inc. |
| 2011 Corporate Members |
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 Dear Georgia Rural Health Association Members,
Rural Health Day is right around the corner on Wednesday, February 16, 2011. Activities and breakfast will begin at 8:00 am in the South Wing of the state Capitol in Atlanta. Please make plans to come and speak with Georgia's state lawmakers who are responsible for legislation that impacts your profession and community.
All the members of the General Assembly have received an invitation but you are encouraged to personally invite your State Senator and State Representative to attend what is sure to be a great day for rural health. After all, they want to hear from their constituents. To find your legislator and contact information, click here.
Thank you and I look forward to seeing you on Wed, February 16th.
Sincerely,
Matt Caseman
Executive Director, GRHA |
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A new policy brief is available from the RUPRI Center: Medicare Beneficiary Access to Primary Care Physicians--Better in Rural, but Still Worrisome.
 Primary care is the foundation of the rural U.S. health care system. Thus, the willingness of rural primary care physicians to accept new Medicare patients is critically important to the Medicare program and to rural America's elderly. In this policy brief, results from a large national physician survey are used to assess (1) U.S. primary care physician and general surgeon willingness to accept Medicare patients and (2) physician-reported reasons for not accepting Medicare patients.
Please click on the following link to download a copy of this brief:
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/rupri/publications/policybriefs/2011/Phys%20Exit%20Brief%20FINAL.pdf
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Rural Health Clinic Conference
May 24, 2011
Rural Health Clinic Conference has been postponed until May 24, 2011. The Conference will still be held in Cordele and the time will still be 10:00am to 4:00 pm. Registration will remain open.
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Assistance for Rural Health Clinics
The federal Office of Rural Health Policy, part of the Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, supports technical assistance (TA) calls and a listserve to assist Rural Health Clinics throughout the nation. The TA calls and the listserve are maintained by the National Association of Rural Health Clinics. RHCs and others interested in RHC work can sign up for the free calls and listserve.
To sign up for the calls and the listserve, go to the Office of Rural Health Policy web site - http://www.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/ See Policy and Research in the middle of the page and click on RHC Technical Assistance Conference Call Series. http://www.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/policy/confcall/index.html
This listserve and the calls are important sources of information for RHCs, as well as for practices considering becoming an RHC. Additional information about that call follows.
Many rural health clinics, small rural hospitals or critical access hospitals have many patients who are uninsured. Sometimes these uninsured patients cannot afford insurance because they have little or no income even though they are relatively healthy. But sometimes they have a medical condition that causes them to be classified as "high-risk," making the cost of health insurance prohibitive or making the individual "uninsurable."
As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Congress authorized the Department of Health and Human Services to establish - either in conjunction with the states or independently - an insurance program for so-called "high-risk" individuals. The program, called the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan, is now available.
The National Association of Rural Health Clinics (NARHC) and the federal Office of Rural Health Policy have arranged for representatives from the new federal Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight to discuss this new program as part of the Rural Health Clinic Technical Assistance series.
To sign up for the calls click here.
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Save the Dates
32nd Annual Minority Health Conference
February 25, 2011
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Online Registration
NRHA's Annual Rural Health Conference
May 3-6, 2011
Austin, TX
Registration Information
Rural Health Clinic Conference
May 24, 2011
South Georgia Technical College
Cordele, GA
Registration
National Health Services Corps
Application Cycle Now Open
Ends May 26, 2011
More Information
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