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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!
$140 Conference Room Rate Ends
September 24, 2013
Keynote Speaker
Georgia Department of Community Health Commissioner
Clyde L. Reese III, Esq
1-912-232-9000
Conference room rate is $140.00 (Ends Sept 24)
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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Gov. Deal Open but "Skeptical" to Medicaid Expansion Alternative
By JIM BURRESS
Gov. Nathan Deal has long said Georgia will not expand its Medicaid roles, citing long-term costs to the state. That's the joint federal/state medical program for the poor.
But Deal seems open to consider alternatives now under consideration in Pennsylvania, Iowa and Arkansas -- all three states that also denied Medicaid expansion.
Those states want to use federal Medicaid money to buy private insurance for those who would otherwise gain coverage under expansion.
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Georgia near bottom in health rankings
By Andy Miller
Published: Sep 18, 2013
A new report ranks Georgia 45th on how well the state's health care system works for low-income families. For people with low incomes, Georgia ranked 46th in health care access and affordability, 47th in performance and treatment, 34th in potentially avoidable hospital use, and 35th in healthy lives, according to the report. It was released Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York City-based foundation that supports independent research on health policy. The report appears a day after the U.S. Census Bureau reported that Georgia has the sixth-highest rate of uninsured residents, with its three-year average at 19.3 percent. While that rate has recently been relatively stable, the state has shown a long-term decline in insurance coverage, says the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. Read more |
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ACA Likely to Deliver Bigger Bang in Rural Areas
Published: Jul 29, 2013
By David Pittman
WASHINGTON -- The rural uninsured may reap a bigger benefit from the Affordable Care Act than their city-dwelling counterparts, which prompted health policy experts to call for a ramped-up campaign to publicize ACA in rural communities.
More rural residents than urban dwellers (10.7% versus 9.6%) can receive tax subsidies under the ACA to purchase private insurance and more uninsured are eligible for an expanded Medicaid program (9.9% versus 8.5%), Keith Mueller, PhD, director of the Rural Policy Research Institute'sCenter for Rural Health Policy Analysis in Iowa City, said.
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What's the Fuss?
By Wayne Myers - Daily Yonder
About 1,340 rural hospitals - that's a quarter of all American hospitals - are "Critical Access Hospitals." These facilities get special treatment and payment from Medicare, and, in some states, from Medicaid, too.
But this special treatment is in jeopardy on a couple of fronts. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, an influential federal advisory body, wants to end or at least change the special treatment. President Obama's budget calls for reducing payments a tiny bit and doing away with the special payments for a few hospitals. Against these proposed changes, some rural advocates want to wrap the whole bunch of Critical Access Hospitals in the flag and defend them to the death.
You may be wondering what all the fuss is about.
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Physician ICD-10 Survival Program
This is a 12 month program which includes monthly webinars on the third Wednesdays of each month (12:30pm-1:30pm) starting in October 2013 to October 2014 and administrative checkpoint lists to prepare physician offices for ICD-10. Those participating in the webinars will also have access to a regional workshop in June 2014.
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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
National Rural Health Association
Rural Health Clinic Conference, Oct. 1-2, and
Critical Access Hospital Conference, Oct. 2-4
Austin, Texas
More Information
Registration
American College of Physicians, Georgia Chapter
Scientific Meeting
October 4-6
Hyatt Regency
Savannah, Georgia
More Information
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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