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FY 2013 GRHA Board of Directors
President
Denise Kornegay
Immediate Past President
Sallie Barker
President Elect
Ann Addison
Vice- President
Shelly Spires
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
Joseph Barrow
Robert J. Briscione
Matt Caseman
Meet our Board of Directors
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To find comprehensive information about licensed health care facilities and services in Georgia, visit GaMap2Care, Georgia's interactive search, see and select tool for making more informed health care facility decisions.
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Georgia Department of Public Health to Broaden Statewide Telemedicine Network in 2013
During a recent appointment, Dr. Anne Patterson, a maternal fetal medicine specialist, spoke with an expectant mother, studied an ultrasound and discussed next steps for care for the woman, whose baby appeared to have an enlarged heart. She even called in a pediatric cardiologist to discuss the fetus' condition. But while Patterson was seated in her metro Atlanta office, her patient sat on an examination table four hours away in Thomasville, Ga.
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Save the Date
Please Join Us!
Georgia Rural Health Association
Rural Health Day at the Capitol
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
State Capitol
South Wing
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Sponsorship Form
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Free Webinar:
Successful Rural Healthcare Philanthropy
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Register
Date: Thursday January 31, 2013
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (EST)
Sponsor: Georgia Rural Health Association and Healthcare Georgia Foundation
Presenters:
Jim Lyons - Senior Partner, Pride Philanthropy
Patti Lyons - Executive Partner, Pride Philanthropy
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Georgia Rural Health Association
During the 2013 Legislative Session GRHA Members can go to our website and access the latest Legislative Reports and Bill Tracking Documents for the 2013 Session of the Georgia General Assembly. From the Advocacy Page, click on "2013 Legislative Tracking" and log in. For assistance please contact our office at 478-552-3620 or [email protected].
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Provider fee bill sails through Senate
By Andy Miller
January 17, 2013
The state Senate passed legislation Thursday that would facilitate the renewal of the hospital provider fee, after soundly rejecting a bid to tie the bill's approval to Georgia expanding its Medicaid program.
As envisioned by the 2010 federal health reform law, Medicaid expansion would add more than 600,000 lower-income Georgians to the program. Senate Democrats offered the amendment to allow the provider fee to fund expansion of the Medicaid program. The amendment failed on a party-line vote, 36-18.
The overall Republican-backed provider fee bill passed easily, 46-9, after more than two hours of feisty debate.
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Governors Could Be Heroes
By Dr. Wayne Myers
The big choices in health care reform now rest with the state governors. The biggest is whether to accept the federal offer of support for Medicaid expansion.
This turns out to have a smaller price tag than a lot of people suppose, and a lot of lives depend on it.
The Medicaid program is the government health insurance program to pay doctors, hospitals and others who provide care to people who don't have much money. As the program stands now, the richest states pay half the money for their people and the federal government pays the other half.
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Funding Opportunity
2013 General Operating Support Grants - Cycle 1
Issued: 1/7/2013
Application Deadline: 2/4/2013 by 12:00 PM EST
Purpose/Goal Statement: Healthcare Georgia Foundation's mission is to advance the health of all Georgians and to expand access to affordable, quality healthcare for underserved individuals and communities. In 2012, the Foundation launched a newly revised grantmaking program specifically for providing general operating support and direct services support for the Georgia non-profit community, in response to the changing needs of both the nonprofit health sector and the growth of the Foundation. In 2012, 27 grants were awarded across Georgia totaling $1,189,000. The funding was allocated across two grant cycles (General Operating Support-Cycle 1 and Direct Services Support-Cycle 2) that were released in January and July.
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Funding Opportunity
FCC Chairman Announces Up to $400 Million Healthcare Connect Fund
FCC CHAIRMAN GENACHOWSKI ANNOUNCES UP TO $400 MILLION HEALTHCARE CONNECT FUND
TO CREATE & EXPAND TELEMEDICINE NETWORKS, INCREASE ACCESS TO MEDICAL SPECIALISTS
FCC WILL BEGIN ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE HEALTHCARE CONNECT FUND
BEGINNING LATE SUMMER OF 2013
Today, at the Oakland Children's Hospital & Research Center, FCC Chairman Genachowski was joined by the Alameda
County Health Care Services Agency, the California Telehealth Network, and the Juvenile Justice Center to announce that up
to $400 million in annual funding will be made available to healthcare providers as part of the FCC's new Healthcare Connect Fund. Beginning in 2013, the FCC's new Healthcare Connect Fund will spur the development of broadband networks to support modern telemedicine, which will link urban medical centers to rural clinics or provide instant access to health records.
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Mark Your Calendar
Rural Health Day at the Capitol
Georgia Rural Health Association
February 20, 2013
Georgia State Capitol
Sponsorship form
Georgia Budget and Policy Institute
2013 Policy Conference
January 25, 2013
The Loudermilk Center
40 Courtland Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Register
Georgia Organics
A Prescription for Better Health
16th Annual Georgia Organics Conference
February 22-23, 2013
Georgia International Convention Center
Atlanta, Georgia
Register
Georgia Partnership for Telehealth
2013 Annual Spring Conference
March 18-20, 2013
Hyatt Regency, Savannah, Georgia
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