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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
Meet our Board of Directors
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GRHA Welcomes New Members
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comprehensive revenue cycle management services to health providers. At FFAM Med-Rev Solutions, we provide end to end solutions that address all of the issues which hospitals, physician groups, clinics, home health, and other provider networks face in the billing and collection of patient account receivables. Managed by a group of senior level experts, whose backgrounds span more than 50 years in healthcare receivable management, FFAM Med-Rev Solutions has created a comprehensive network of dedicated professionals that successfully maximize our clients' cash flow objectives. We provide EBO Solutions/Management, Funding, Factor Receivables, Bad Debt A/R Purchasing, and Self-Pay Non-Recourse Patient Account Financing.
Eddie King | Executive Vice President - Business Development & Corporate Acquisitions
Phone :: 800-542-8714 404-523-3280 X1025
Cell:: 850-582-8969, or Donna Boatright, National Marketing Executive, 912-617-2968 (cell). Visit us online at www.1fam.com
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Thank you for a great
Coding Certification Bootcamp!
Special thank you to Archbold Medical Center for offering their auditorium, as well as their help, and the State Office of Rural Health for their assistance!
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November 15, 2012
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Economic Impact of Rural Health Care
by Gerald A. Doeksen, Cheryl F. St. Clair, and Fred C. Eilrich,
National Center for Rural Health Works
The public is well aware of the medical contributions that rural health providers deliver to rural residents but the economic contributions that rural health care provides to the local
community are equally important. It is crucial that rural residents have access to quality health care. It is crucial to generate and retain health care services and health care jobs in rural areas.
This is even more crucial since rural areas typically have higher unemployment than urban areas. National and rural health care impacts are presented in this briefing:
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| Who still wants to be a country doctor? There is still need for physicians in rural areas, but interest is declining. One solution: Improve work-life balance to attract and keep doctors.
By VICTORIA STAGG ELLIOTT, amednews staff. Posted Oct. 22, 2012.
J. Matt Byrd, MD, a family physician in Ogallala, Neb., population 5,000, starts his workday with a 15-minute drive to his office. He's usually home by 6 p.m., and after dinner with his family, he might go out to his backyard with his 11-year-old daughter to hunt deer, pheasants, doves and grouse. Or they might go for walks, ride bikes or fish in nearby Lake McConaughy, Nebraska's largest.
"There's a life balance to be had in a rural area," Dr. Byrd said.
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Choosing the Right Leadership Team for EHR Implementation Success
By Ramsey Evans, CEO, Prognosis Health Information Systems
Rural and community hospitals are increasingly adopting electronic health records (EHRs) to quality for meaningful use incentives and long-term improved care management for their patient populations. The leadership teams you establish to evaluate, select and implement an EHR will largely determine whether your initiative succeeds or fails.
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Uninsured in Rural America
10/24/2012
The percentage of rural Americans without health insurance has been rising since 2005. But the differences from one rural county to another in the rate of uninsured can be enormous.
By 2010, the percentage of people under the age of 65 who lived without any health insurance was higher in rural America than in either the cities or the suburbs. Five years earlier, the rate of those uninsured in rural counties differed little from rates in the cities or the exurbs.
But the rates of uninsured vary wildly across rural and exurban counties - from a low of only 4.7 percent without health insurance in Franklin County, Massachusetts, to 41.4 percent uninsured in Hudspeth County, Texas.
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