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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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Al-GA Rural Health Clinic Conference
Free Webinar Series:
Rural Health Clinic Billing 101
Registration
Please join us for a webinar on rural health clinic billing presented October 1, 2013 at 2:30 EDT and 1:30 CDT. This webinar is the second of three being offered as follow up to the joint Alabama-Georgia Rural Health Clinic Conference. All are invited to participate - this webinar is for everyone, regardless of whether or not you attended the joint rural health clinic conference. There is no cost for participation.
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Free GRHA archived webinars are available for viewing:
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2013 County Health Rankings
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September Health Observances
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Please join us for the
2013 GRHA Annual Conference
in Savannah!
Keynote Speaker
Georgia Department of Community Health Commissioner
Clyde L. Reese III, Esq
1-912-232-9000
Conference room rate is $140.00. Please use the group code GRH to make your reservation.
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Free Webinar
"Patient Centered Medical Home: The Basics and How it Works"
WebinarDate: Monday, September 30, 2013
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)
Sponsor: Georgia Rural Health Association
Presenter: Harry Strothers, III, MD, MMM
Session Description: The Patient Centered Medical Home is a team based healthcare delivery approach to providing care and maximizing health outcomes. With goals of raising patient satisfaction, improving overall health, and increasing access to health care, the PCMH model is growing in popularity throughout the country.
This webinar will cover the basics of a PCMH and how it works. Additionally, information will be provided on utilizing health information technology and a trained staff to provide coordinated care through team based models, which is a critical aspect of PCMH.
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Endangered Species: Georgia's Rural Hospitals
By Pam O'Dell
Capitol Reporter
Grave uncertainty plagues Jimmy Lewis as he hurriedly visits hospital administrators in rural Georgia, particularly those in south Georgia among the state's poorest areas. CEO of Home Town Health, (a management consulting and advocacy group for rural hospitals) Lewis is on a mission to prevent the closure of more hospitals.
With a little more than four months before significant elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) are implemented, news came of three facility closures.
"That's just this week." Lewis says in an exasperated but determined tone, "Community hospitals are the lifeline of rural Georgia. When a hospital closes, its economy and infrastructure fold. The tax digest is destroyed. It falls off the map... it dies."
Lewis is concerned that the ACA may result in changes in federal reimbursement that will likely force the consolidation of rural hospitals, reducing the services available, and lengthening distances between critical access hospitals.
Lewis spends a significant time at the state capitol trying to convince an increasingly urbanized legislature of the severity of the problem. He's got the governor's attention.
"The governor hates that this is happening. He has done all that he can do. He is from rural Georgia..." Lewis puffs as he runs in to see a confused and concerned hospital administrator.
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First, Do No Harm: Providing Meaningful Access to Healthcare for Limited English Proficient Patients in Rural Georgia
By Jana J. Edmondson-Cooper, Esq.
Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River with 159 counties, but 35 percent of its population is centered in the five major counties in metropolitan Atlanta. Georgia Legal Services Program (GLSP) "is a non-profit law firm offering legal services to Georgians with low incomes who live in the 154 counties outside Metro Atlanta. We handle cases involving domestic violence, housing problems, access to healthcare, elder law, and school problems, among others. We advocate for the rights of our clients to be safe from violence, to have decent affordable housing, to get needed health care, to have decent schools for their children, and to rely on society's safety net when they are in need. GLSP helps clients to overcome barriers to opportunities out of poverty, and delivers on our nation's promise of justice for all."
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Be a rural health rock star in the Lone Star state
Get your tickets today for NRHA's Rural Health Clinic Conference, Oct. 1-2, and Critical Access Hospital Conference, Oct. 2-4, in the live music capital of the world, Austin, Texas.
This year, you'll discover the best rural-relevant ways to:
- implement health reform changes
- leverage rural economic development and charitable giving for sustainability
- navigate accountable care organizations
- manage ICD-10 implementation and code changes
- integrate telemedicine and achieve meaningful use
- transform to a patient-centered medical home model
- understand the regionalization of health services and role of population healthon your community's future
- improve patient safety, the discharge process, remote monitoring and more from experts and colleagues from across the country.
A recent HHS report indicates that 846 CAHs would lose certification and funding if forced to re-enroll in the CAH program. Hear from your national advocates from NRHA and AHA on the impact of this recommendation and what you can do to make sure it doesn't happen.
Check out the best spots to eat, people-watch and explore in and around Austin from local NRHA member Dave Pearson.
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Could Retiring Physicians Solve the Primary Care Shortage?
Chelsea Rice, for HealthLeaders Media
September 9, 2013
A program to retrain retiring specialists for part-time careers in adult primary care could bolster care teams in established physicians practices, community health centers, and retail health clinics.
Is there such a thing as too much golf?
The majority (60%) of physicians say they would retire today if they could, [PDF] according to The Physicians Foundation.
But more than half have more realistic plans to cut back on patients, work part-time, switch to concierge medicine, or retire.
The survey found that primary care physicians are generally more positive about their profession than specialists, even though they are facing some of the same stressors, and are paid on average 30% less.
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Special offers for medical students considering rural rotations or residencies
Rural Training Track Technical Assistance Program
The Rural Training Track Technical Assistance Program, funded through the federal Office of Rural Health Policy and administered by NRHA, is offering two programs for medical students considering either a rural rotation or a residency at a RTT program. One offers reimbursement for travel and lodging expenses up to $1,000 for students who complete a medical school rotation at a RTT's rural site. A second program offers a travel stipend for significant others of RTT residency applicants who travel with the applicants to their on-site interviews.
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Mark Your Calendar
Georgia Association for Primary Health Care
2013 Annual Conference
October 2-4
Augusta, Georgia
Augusta Marriott at the Convention Center
Registration
30th Annual Georgia Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates Conference:
September 20-22, 2013
Evergreen Marriott Resort
Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083
4021 Lakeview Drive
2013 Georgia Chapter Scientific Meeting American College of Physicians October 4-6, 2013 Hyatt Regency Savannah, Georgia 1st Annual Wound Care Conference River City Wound and Ostomny Group October 30, 2013 Columbus Regional Conference Center 710 Center Street Columbus, GA 31901 More Information
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