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Using Social Media to Increase Teens' Access to Your Services
Family Planning ICD Codes
Navigating the Medicaid Landscape Webinar
Why #ThxBirthControl?
Nurse Consultant Position
Life is Short - Smile!
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November 11, 2015
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"Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it." 
~Samuel Butler
Using Social Media to Increase Teens' Access to 
Your Services Webinar                             

Calling community educators and outreach workers who want to create social media campaigns to reach adolescent clients!

 

More than 8 in 10 American teens look for health information online. Title X clinics have an opportunity to develop a vibrant and robust online presence to successfully reach adolescents. However, many public health agencies have little to no online presence, thereby missing these opportunities to reach potential adolescent clients.
 
Using Social Media to Increase Teens' Access to Your Services will offer up-to-date trends about how adolescents access health information that will help you identify key considerations when creating an effective social media outreach strategy. You will learn about helpful tools and guidance that will support you when creating a safe and engaging social media presence to help reach adolescents in your community. Register here.
  
Family Planning ICD Codes                             
New Job Aid: ICD-9/10 Crosswalk
 
This new coding tool from the Family Planning National Training Centers converts frequently used family planning diagnosis codes from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Some ICD-9 codes now map to multiple ICD-10 codes or have combined (approximate match) and may also require further secondary codes for specificity purposes. ICD-10 coding guidelines should be reviewed to ensure compliance with standardized regulations.
  
Navigating the Medicaid Landscape Webinar                              

"Navigating the Medicaid Landscape: A Medicaid Primer"

Nov. 19, 2015 3:00 PM EST

Register here now!                             

Medicaid has continued to grow and evolve since its inception 50 years ago. As the country transitions to accountable and value based care, states are seeking innovative solutions to control costs and improve the quality of care delivered. Join NACDD and Leavitt Partners as we take a look at Medicaid Programs and how they operate. Areas of focus for this webinar include:
  1. Medicaid Coverage:  How was coverage defined before the Affordable Care Act and how is it defined today?  What are the populations served and how are they defined?
  2. Programmatic Variations:  How is the program instituted?  How does one explore the web of variations that guide the Medicaid program such as waivers, financing, etc.?
  3. Stakeholder/Partnerships: How does one navigate the models of Managed Care Organizations, Accountable Care Organizations and other models?  What are the opportunities for engaging with MCOs and ACOs as partners in chronic disease prevention and control?  Where do public health practitioners begin?
This webinar will be structured as a lecture with a feature to gather questions for further exploration.  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
  
Why #ThxBirthControl?                
Why #ThxBirthControl?
  
The benefits of birth control are numerous. Pregnancy planning in general, and the use of birth control in particular, are directly linked to a wide array of benefits to women, men, children, and society, including fewer unplanned pregnancies and abortions, more educational and economic opportunities for young women, improved maternal and infant health, greater family wellbeing, and reduced public spending.  
   
Nurse Consultant Position                             

Nurse Consultant Position                                

Provides leadership and oversight for reproductive health assessment, policy development, and quality assurance for federally funded family planning programs in Montana. Provides medical and nursing consultation, technical assistance and direction to health care providers including medical directors, advanced practice registered nurses (nurse practitioners, nurse midwives) physician assistants and related personnel in family planning agencies.  The position involves coordination and integration of national standards of practice, state laws and regulations, and grant requirements into state and local family planning protocols in a variety of medical delivery systems.

  
Provides leadership and oversight for activities directed toward assessment, policy development, and quality assurance for public health programming and health providers in Montana.
  
Provides primary care medical/nursing direction and oversight to public health services consistent with state of the art medical, nursing, and public health practice to help assure the optimum health of Montanans.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree of nursing in science or arts or closely related field of study
  • Master's degree of science is preferred
  • Must be currently licensed or eligible for licensure as an advanced practice registered nurse or nurse midwife in the state of Montana
  • Three years of clinical and administrative work experience
  • Preferred experience as a clinician in a women's reproductive health care.
  • Preferred experience in a federally funded Title X Family Planning Clinic.
  • Other combinations of directly related education and or experience may be considered on a case by case basis.
Salary: $61,193.00 - 76,502.00  Yearly 
Required Application Materials:  Cover Letter, Resume  
Contact Name:  Department of Public Health and Human Services|  Contact Email:  hhshumanresources@mt.gov  |  Contact Phone:  406-444-3136 
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