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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
Chuck Adams
Paula Guy
Monty M. Veazey
Joseph Barrow
Robert J. Briscione
Matt Caseman
Meet our Board of Directors
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GRHA Welcomes New Members
Stephen Jarrard, Chief of Surgery, CMO
Mountain Lakes Medical Center
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2013 County Health Rankings
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Funding to support projects that apply the principles and frameworks of behavioral economics to persistent and perplexing health and health care problems.
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Don't Miss Out on this Great Networking and Learning Opportunity!
Alabama-Georgia
Rural Health Clinic Conference
June 4th -5th
Auburn Marriott Opelika
Hotel & Conference Center
3700 Robert Trent Jones Trail
Opelika, AL 36801
334-741-9292
Conference Room Rate $109 per night plus tax
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Free Webinar:
Rural Health Clinics: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Strategies for Starting a RHC
Learn more
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST
Sponsor: Healthcare Georgia Foundation and Georgia Rural Health Association
Session Description: Rural Health Clinics are a great tool to improve reimbursement for physician practices in rural areas in the appropriate circumstances. This webinar will discuss why RHCs can be advantageous for providers and in some cases why they are a costly mistake in this reimbursement environment. Healthcare reform has radically changed the reimbursement dynamics for starting RHCs and may affect your decision to become a rural health clinic or not.
Presenters:
Adriane Gainey, AMS Software
Mark Lynn, RHC Consultant for Healthcare Business Specialists
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ICD-10 Workshop, Archbold Medical Center, January 31, 2013
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Don't Delay!
2013 ICD-10 Workshop
Association of Rural Health Professional Coders
2013 Medical Coding Certification Classes
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April 3rd 2013
ICD-10 Workshop
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ICD-10 Workshop | Location:
Ty Cobb Regional
Medical Center
367 Clear Creek Parkway
Lavonia, GA 30553 | Location:
801 W Gordon St
Thomaston, GA 30286
http://www.urmc.org/ |
$169 for GRHA members
$179 non-GRHA members
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Legislating health: The 2013 results
By Andy Miller
March 28, 2013
Health care providers received good budgetary news Thursday, the final day of this year's Georgia General Assembly.
The agreement between the House and the Senate on fiscal 2014 (July 2013 through June 2014) eliminated cuts in payments for Medicaid services to dentists, nursing homes and other medical providers. Gov. Nathan Deal's original budget proposed a 0.74 percent reduction for providers other than hospitals, hospices, primary care physicians, and some clinics.
"We haven't had a pay increase in more than 12 years,'' said Pat Cota, executive director of the Georgia OBGyn Society, praising the budget outcome. "Not to get a cut is a step in the right direction.''
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Ominous signs for rural Georgia as hospitals shut their doors
By Tom Baxter
March 25, 2013
Jimmy Lewis is a man known for dire predictions.
The CEO of HomeTown Health, which represents more than 50 rural Georgia hospitals, he peppers his regular email messages to his clients with urgent warnings to hoard every penny of cash they can get their hands on, and as a lobbyist his testimony has caused the chair of one committee to complain that he always says the sky is falling.
Ominously, his predictions are starting to come true. Lewis forecast at the beginning of the year that five to six rural hospitals might be forced to close in 2013, and already there have been two. Calhoun Memorial Hospital in Arlington closed in February, and Stewart-Webster Hospital in Richland shut its doors last week.
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Funding Opportunity
The Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) is pleased to announce the release of the FY 2013 Rural Health Information Technology (HIT) Workforce Program (Announcement number: HRSA-13-251). The purpose of this one-time funding opportunity is to support formal rural health networks that focus on activities relating to the recruitment, education, training, and retention of HIT specialists.
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Mark Your Calendar
DNR, RLC, QDMA and GRHA, Hunting Safety Program
Big Red Oak Plantation Shooting Preserve
8428 Greenville St./
8428 Gay rd.
Georgia Chapter American College of Physicians
Maintenance of Certification SEP Module
Saturday April 20, 2013 Registration 8:00 am
Internal Medicine Updates 2013 8:30 - 11:00 am
IM Hospital Based 2013 Update 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Learn more
Georgia Public Health Association
84th Annual Meeting and Conference
April 22-23 in Atlanta, Georgia
Registration
HomeTown Health
13th Annual Spring Conference Sea Palms Resort
St. Simon's Island, GA
April 24-26, 2013
Registration
Georgia Charitable Care Network
9th Annual Conference
Clarence Bird Conference Center
Cartersville, Georgia
May 2-3, 2013
More information
Registration
NRHA
2013 Annual Conference
May 7-10
Louisville, Ky
Registration
2nd Annual Medical Recruitment Fair
Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals
August 23-25, 2013
Lake Lanier Islands Resort
Buford, Georgia
Registration
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