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FY 2012 GRHA Board of Directors
President
Sallie Barker
Immediate Past President
Nannette Turner
President Elect
Denise Kornegay
Vice President
Ann Addison
Treasurer
Sheila Freeman
Secretary
Deidre Howell
Board Members
Carla Belcher
Laura Bland Gillman
Sue Nieman
Charles Owens
Chris Parker
Rhett Partin
Caroline Holley Womack
Paula Guy
Monty M. Veazey
Matt Caseman |
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Pysician Needed
Dade County
Trenton, GA
Family Practice/ Internal Medicine
Please contact:
Tracey Barker, EDAC
Health Facility Partners; WBE,TN
423-899-2996 |
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GRHA Welcomes New Members
Student
Barbara Gaston
Organizational
Aetna Medicaid
Individual
Robert Hines
Elaine Marshall
Dr. John A. Glenn Jr. |
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RAC Webinar: CO-OP Health Plans: Can They Help Fix Rural America's Health Insurance Markets?
Date: Wednesday, October, 19, 2011
Time: 11:00am Central (9:00am Pacific, 10:00am Mountain, 12:00pm Eastern)
Registration: To register visit the ReadyTalk website.
For questions about this event, contact Carrie Au-Yeung at butle180@umn.edu or 612.625.2492. |
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MAG/GMGMA WORKSHOPS
The Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) in partnership with the Georgia Medical Group Management Association (GMGMA) will condut innovative CME-accredited workshops across the state in 2011.
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Doctors supply hamstrung by residency gap
by Any Miller, Georgia HealthNews
Georgia has a medical export problem.
Three of every four graduates of Georgia medical schools this year went to do their residency training in other states. That's important because the bulk of physicians end up practicing within 60 miles of where they did their training.
And Georgia is also mired in a doctor shortage that shows no sign of easing.
A "Primary Care Summit,'' held Friday at Clayton State University in Morrow, outlined the residency and doctor shortage problems to an audience of medical school leaders, health care executives, representatives of doctor organizations, educators, and federal and state officials.
"We are positioned to become the biggest exporter of medical students,'' said Denise Kornegay, program director of the Georgia Statewide AHEC Network, which sponsored the meeting. Area Health Education Centers (AHECs) address problems of health professional supply and distribution in rural and underserved areas of the state.
Primary care physicians are in particularly short supply in Georgia. This need for obstetricians, internists, pediatricians and family medicine doctors will become even more acute if the health care reform law is implemented, because it will add hundreds of thousands of patients to the state's Medicaid rolls in 2014.
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 Analysis of Medicaid Enrollment and Expenditures by Federal Core Requirements and State Options
To receive federal Medicaid matching funds, states that participate in Medicaid must meet federal requirements, which include covering specified "federal core" enrollee groups and mandatory health benefits. States also may choose to cover additional "state expansion" enrollees and optional benefits with federal Medicaid matching funds. An analysis from the Foundation's KCMU with researchers from the Urban Institute uses 2007 data to examine the proportion of Medicaid enrollment and spending attributable to state expansion enrollees versus federal core enrollees and presents estimates of spending on mandatory versus optional health benefits across all enrollee types. The analysis is online. |
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Shortage of Rural Doctors Spawn Program
by Nancy Averett, FOX News Latino
Growing up, Hollie Vigil looked on helplessly as diabetes, obesity and hypertension ran rampant in her extended Latino family. When she decided to become a doctor, she vowed she would help this demographic once she got her degree.
To fulfill her mission, Vigil could easily stay in Denver where she is going to medical school. Twenty percent of the city is Latino. But the 24-year-old wants to go where doctors are truly needed in the state: small rural towns.
Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/health/2011/09/22/shortage-rural-doctors-spawns-program/#ixzz1aVS8uEaR |
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Most Georgia Voters Say Doctors Order Needless Tests To Prevent Being Sued, New Survey Reports
Contact Benita Dodd at 404-256-4050
benitadodd@georgiapolicy.org
About two-thirds of Georgians believe that doctors often order unnecessary tests just to keep from getting sued, according to a survey released today. Nearly 90 percent of those believe this practice has a negative impact on health care.
The survey, released by the Georgia Public Policy Foundation in partnership with Patients for Fair Compensation, was conducted in April and August by THG Strategic Research and is based on responses from a total of 1,327 randomly selected registered voters in Florida and Georgia.
"The people of Georgia are rightly concerned about the rising costs of health care," said Kelly McCutchen, President and CEO of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, a non-partisan public policy research group.
"The practice of defensive medicine - doctors ordering unnecessary tests to keep from being sued - is a hidden driver to those costs," McCutchen added. "With some experts estimating defensive medicine to be 26 percent of overall health care spending, we have to develop innovative policies that align the interests of patients and their physicians to stop this practice."
The poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, found that:
- More than six in 10 Georgians surveyed believe that doctors order unnecessary tests to keep from getting sued.
- Nearly nine out of 10 Georgians who agree doctors order unnecessary tests believe this practice has a negative impact on health care.
- Eighty-one percent of all respondents asked believe that medical malpractice lawsuits contribute to high health care costs.
- Sixty-two percent of respondents asked believe doctors and nurses are under attack from frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits.
Full polling results
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National Rural Health Day is November 17th!
There were 55 primary care physicians per 100,000 residents in rural areas in 2005, compared with 72 per 100,000 in urban areas - a figure which decreases to 36 per 100,000 in isolated, small rural areas.
There are only half as many specialists per 100,000 residents in rural areas compared to urban areas.
Rural areas average about 30 dentists per 100,000 residents; urban areas average approximately twice that number.
Only 10 percent of psychologists/psychiatrists and 20 percent of masters-level social workers work in rural areas.
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Mark Your Calendar
Georgia Budget & Policy Institute 7th Anniversary Celebration
Tuesday, Oct.18, 2011
5:30pm to 7:00pm
The Piedmont Garden Tent at Park Tavern
Atlanta, GA
Mental Health in Georgia: A New Game
Friday, October 19, 2011
12:00 - 1:00 pm (EST)
Program Sponsors: Blue Ridge AHEC
Session Description:
This program will discuss new challenges and recent changes in the area of mental healthcare in Georgia. The presenter will address some immediate problems and discuss quick communication solutions to those issues. This program serves as an introduction to the 2012 Mental Health Series.
Click here for Registration
2011 GAPHC Conference Leaders in Quality Health Care
Westin Savannah Harbor
Oct. 19- 21, 2011
Georgia Academy of Family Physicians Annual Scientific Assembly & Exhibition
Nov. 10-12, 2011
Cobb Galleria
Atlanta, GA
Society of Trauma Nurses
STN 15th Annual Conference
April 11-14, 2012
Going Coastal: Reset your Trauma Compass
Hyatt Regency Savannah
Savannah, GA
Diabetes Day 2011
Thursday, November 3
9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Wellston Center
Georgia Women for a Change
21st Annual Georgia Women's Assembly
Thursday, November 10, 2011
8:00am. to 3:30 pm.
Loudermilk Center, Atlanta, GA
NRHA 2012 Policy Institute
Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2012
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