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GRHA Newsletter Week of October 5, 2012 www.grhainfo.org [email protected] 478-552-3620

Georgia Rural Health Association (GRHA) is the oldest state rural health association in the country. Founded in 1981, this nonprofit network of healthcare providers, educators, and individuals is united in its commitment to improve the health and healthcare services of rural Georgians. Join now!

FY 2012 GRHA Board of Directors

President

Denise Kornegay

Immediate Past President

Sallie Barker

President Elect

Ann Addison

Treasurer

Sheila Freeman

Secretary

Laura Bland Gillman

Board Members

Carla Belcher

Tim Trottier

Mary Mathis

Sue Nieman

Charles Owens

Chris Parker

Carie Summers

Paula Guy

Monty M. Veazey

Shelley Spires

Joseph Barrow

Robert J. Briscione

Matt Caseman

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Presentations from the 2012 Annual Conference are now available for viewing on the GRHA website.

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Funding And Opportunties

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

October Health Observances

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2012 Coding Certification Bootcamp

October 24-26, 2012

Archbold Memorial Hospital

Williams Auditorium

Thomasville, GA

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Health Insurance Exchanges

A key piece of the expansion of private health insurance through the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was the creation of health insurance exchanges. This brief, by the Georgia Health Policy Center, outlines state opportunities and challenges related to exchanges and examines implications from the June 2012 Supreme Court Ruling Related to the ACA. Upcoming topics will include implications for state government, communities, and health care providers. Please continue to visit us online at www.gsu.edu/ghpc or on Facebook.

November 15, 2012

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What Works for Health Tutorial

What Works for Health provides communities with information to help select and implement evidence-informed policies, programs, and system changes that will improve the variety of factors we know affect health.

WANT TO LEARN MORE? Click here and watch the tutorial.

Sign on to spur congressional action, undo rural hospital funding cuts

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Rural Medical Training Spurs Economies

10/2/2012

By Robert Bowman M.D.

Rural leaders have long recognized that health care delivery is important to the rural economy -- more important than in urban areas -- and essential to recruiting and retaining other jobs and businesses. Despite consensus on this, there have been decades of little progress in resolving problems in the rural workforce.

ORHP Funding Opportunity

The Office of Rural Health Policy recently announced an opportunity for rural communities to bring together key parts of a rural health care delivery system, particularly those entities that may not have collaborated in the past, to work together to establish or improve local capacity and coordination of care. Applications are due Oct. 15.

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2012 Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals

Annual Conference

October 10-12, 2012

The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation.

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