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GRHA Newsletter  Week of May 24, 2013    www.grhainfo.org    [email protected]    478-552-3620

Georgia Rural Health Association (GRHA) is the oldest state rural health association in the country. Founded in 1981, this nonprofit network of healthcare providers, educators, and individuals is united in its commitment to improve the health and healthcare services of rural Georgians. Join now!

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

GRHA welcomes new members 

Community Health Works

 

Dave Ward, CFO

Medlink Georgia

 

Louie Freeman

 

GRHA Corporate Members

 

Platinum Corporate Sponsor PPHS

 

 

Peach State Health Plan 

  

 

GACH   

 

 

 

Blue Cross Blue Shield 

 

Coca Cola 


   

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gaphc  

 

 

 

Save the Date

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2013 GRHA Annual Conference
October 21st - 23rd
Savannah, Georgia

More information coming soon!

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Free GRHA archived webinars are available for viewing:



11/14/2012 
  
2013 County Health Rankings


RAC 

Funding And Opportunties

May Health Observances

Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month 
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
http://www.aafa.org/

National Arthritis Month

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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



Sponsored by:

 
 
ICD-10 Workshop in Savannah
 

Association of Rural Health Professional Coders

 

July 17

9am - 2:30pm

  

Memorial University Medical Center

The Hoskins Center

4700 Waters Avenue, Savannah GA 31404  

 
 
$169 for GRHA members 
$179 non-GRHA members 
  
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If you have any questions please call 478-552-3620 or email [email protected]
 
GACH
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The Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals,
in association with 

 

The Georgia Rural Health Association and the 
Georgia Board of Physician Workforce,
 is proud to announce the

 

2nd Annual Medical Recruitment Fair

 

Space is limited so register today!

 

August 23-25, 2013

 Lake Lanier Islands Resort

 

Registration

Learn more



Click here to listen to Charlie Hayslett, with Partner up for Public Health, radio interview with the Georgia News Network on the need to promote and improve rural health


Medicaid expansion popular in South, poll says

by Andy Miller
May 21, 2013

The political leadership in the five Deep South states is solidly against Medicaid expansion, and has been so for months.

 

Republican governors in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, along with their GOP-controlled legislatures, have bucked proposals to open their states' Medicaid programs to hundreds of thousands of uninsured people, as outlined under the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

 

But a newly released survey of adults in those five Southern states shows a different sentiment among the public. Across the region, 62.3 percent of respondents view Medicaid expansion favorably, including 61 percent in Georgia, according to the survey results released Tuesday.

 

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Mark Your Calendar

   

2nd Annual Medical Recruitment Fair

Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals

August 23-25, 2013

Lake Lanier Islands Resort

Buford, Georgia

Registration

 

Free Webinar

Southwest Georgia AHEC

Decision-Making by Men & Their Significant Others in Early Stage Prostate Cancer

Thursday, June 6, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EDT)

Registration  

 

Matt Caseman 
GRHA