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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
Liane Varnes - Student
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Free Educational Webinar:
A Rural Health Approach to the ICD-10 Project
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Register
Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (EST)
Sponsor: Georgia Rural Health Assocation and Healthare Georgia Foundation
Presenter:
Gary W. Lucas, CPC, CPC-I, AHIMA ICD-10 Ambassador
Director of Health IT & ICD-10
TracePoint Consulting
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ICD-10 Coding Workshop
January 25, 2013
Archbold Memorial Hospital
915 Gordon Ave., Thomasville, GA
Williams Auditorium
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November 15, 2012
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New Requirement: Submit SAMHSA Grant Applications Electronically
Oct 29, 2012
New Requirement: Submit SAMHSA Grant Applications Electronically
SAMHSA will not accept paper applications except when a waiver of this requirement is approved by SAMHSA.
Beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2013, SAMHSA discretionary grant applications, including new and continuation, must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov. http://www.grants.gov/. SAMHSA strongly encourages any organization intending to apply to a SAMHSA program to register now with Grants.gov. Registration is a one-time process, which is required before representatives of an organization can submit grant application packages electronically through Grants.gov.
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Georgia's Tobacco Tax: Unusually low and tough to change
By: Robyn Abree
Oct 31, 2012
After smoking on and off for more than 12 years, Atlanta native Katie Moore may have finally kicked the habit for good.
How did she do it? By moving 880 miles away, to New York, where the state tobacco tax is the highest in the country - $4.35 a pack, nearly $3 more than the national average of $1.46. In New York City, where Moore now lives, smokers pay an additional $3.10 tax on top of the state tax. In some parts of New York, a single pack of cigarettes can cost as much as $14.50.
Because of high cigarette prices, Moore said, smoking ceased to be an option when she moved to the Big Apple for her job. In fact, the 30-year-old associate financial representative admitted that the high price of cigarettes was the only reason she ditched her three-pack-a-week habit.
"If I still lived in Atlanta, I probably would have never stopped," she said. "Cigarettes were so cheap, so the incentive to quit just wasn't there."
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