Month: January 2024

RHIhub Updated Topic Guides

January 31, 2024

RHIhub Updated Topic Guides

The Rural Health Information (RHI) hub announces newly updated topic guides.

  • Applying for Grants to Support Rural Health Projects
    • Provides information and resources to help rural communities learn about finding grant funding and how to develop a proposal to support projects and programs to improve rural healthcare
    • Covers tips on the types of information to include in an application and other strategies when planning and preparing a grant proposal
  • Violence and Abuse in Rural America
    • Shares information and resources describing the prevalence of violence and abuse in rural America, and other factors impacting violence and abuse victims such as healthcare access and poverty
    • Covers prevention strategies and other support for communities and healthcare providers to help address violence and abuse in rural areas

 

Upcoming Webinar: HRSA Loan Guarantee Program

January 31, 2024

Upcoming Webinar: HRSA Loan Guarantee Program

Many health centers face challenges and/or delays in obtaining affordable loans for their capital projects because of credit or collateral shortfalls. A loan guarantee from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Center Facility Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) can enhance a health center’s credit profile and cover up to 80% of the principal amount of loans made by non-federal lenders.

Join Capital Link’s webinar on February 6 for an overview of the HRSA LGP and get a preview of an upcoming HRSA Loan Guarantee Program Learning Collaborative, starting at the end of February 2024.

Please contact Chloe Bahnan cbahnan@caplink.org, if you have questions.

When: Tuesday, February 6, 2:00 -3:00 p.m. ET

Register Here

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Call for Questions – Physician Fee Schedule Webinar

January 30, 2024

Call for Questions – Physician Fee Schedule Webinar

The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) has coordinated with the Rural Health Information (RHI) Hub and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to hold a webinar on February 27, at 3 pm ET, to discuss the CY 2024 Physician Fee Schedule final rule.

This webinar will focus heavily on the community Health Integration Services and the Behavioral Health billing codes for Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT)/Mental Health Counselors (MHC). CMS will also review telehealth policies outlined in the PFS final rule.

FORHP is working to gather questions from rural stakeholders as CMS is developing the webinar in response to questions that are received.

Additional Information

Please submit questions by close of business, Thursday, February 1.

Submit Questions to Jemima Drake: jdrake@hrsa.gov

Registration for this webinar will be available soon.

Free Online Training for Health Care Providers

January 30, 2024

Free Online Training for Health Care Providers

These online, on-demand training sessions were developed by the New Hampshire Disability and Health State Program and were selected in partnership with the Center’s for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) disability and Health 10- State Programs Workgroup.

Why Take this Training:

  • Online and On-Demand
  • Free Continuing Education
  • Better care for people with disabilities

Trainings:

  • Responsive Practice: Providing Health Care and Screenings to Individuals with Disabilities
    • In this training, health care providers will learn to:
      • Describe the disparities in health experienced by people with disabilities
      • Recognize barriers people with disabilities face when accessing health care & preventive services
      • Acquire strategies & approaches to provide disability-competent, responsive care

Register for Providing Health Care and Screenings to Individuals with Disabilities

  • Responsive Practice: Accessible and Adaptive Communication
    • In this training, health care providers will learn to:
      • Presume that patients with disabilities are competent to understand, communicate & participate in own care
      • Identify and use alternative methods of communication
      • Set clear and reasonable expectations for future communications to be successful

Register for Accessible and Adaptive Communication

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Webinar – PARHM and AHEAD Models: A Comparison of Programs and Lessons Learned from the PA Implementation Experience

January 29, 2024

Webinar – PARHM and AHEAD Models: A Comparison of Programs and Lessons Learned from the PA Implementation Experience

In September, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new voluntary state Total Cost of Care (TCOC) model, the stated Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) model.

The goals of AHEAD are to:

  • Bend the healthcare cost curve,
  • improve population health, and
  • advance health equity by reducing disparities in health outcomes.

AHEAD builds on other state models including the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model (PARHM).

Join the Rural Health Redesign Center for this two-part webinar, to hear directly from the team of rural healthcare experts that led the implementation of the PARHM. Learn how the AHEAD and PARHM models compare and understand lessons learned from the Pennsylvania implementation experience.

What You Will Learn:

  • In the first webinar, hear directly from the rural healthcare experts that led the implementation of PARHM and learn how the AHEAD and PARHM models compare
  • In the second webinar, hear about how components of each of the programs may impact rural communities

When: February 7 and February 21, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET

Please register for each webinar separately

Click Here to Register for February 7

Click Here to Register for February 21

NRHA Webinar – Reimagining Rural Health Marketing, March 7

January 29, 2024

NRHA Webinar – Reimagining Rural Health Marketing, March 7

Learn cost-effective techniques and insights for building patient volumes in primary care and outpatient procedures. Today’s rural health care consumer is savvy and selective, but they are also loyal if you form a meaningful relationship and experience.

When: Thursday, March 7, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CST

Register Here

NRHA Webinar on Telehealth for Rural Hospitals

January 26, 2024

NRHA Webinar on Telehealth for Rural Hospitals

Rural health is the perfect environment to benefit from the renaissance in digital health. Join the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) for an insightful webinar, Bridging Gaps in Rural Health with the Telehealth Center of Excellence Framework for Mississippi Hospitals and Beyond. The University of Mississippi Medical (UMMC) takes center stage, sharing a telehealth framework for revolutionizing healthcare access in rural Mississippi.

This webinar will consolidate experience and insights to address the unique healthcare challenges faced by rural hospitals and help you discover how advanced telehealth technologies and dynamic virtual workforce solutions combine to reshape healthcare delivery, ensuring comprehensive and timely services for rural communities.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from UMMC, one of only two federally designated Centers of Excellence in Telehealth by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and Equum Medical.

When: Wednesday, March 6, 2:00 – 3:00 P.M. CST

Click Here to Register

MBQIP 2025 Updated Resources

January 26, 2024

MBQIP 2025 Updated Resources

The Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Program (MBQIP) has updated resources for the next phase of MBQIP.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is framing them as the MBQIP 2025 Core Measure set. These documents will show what measures are currently included in MBQIP, and new measures for reporting, beginning in calendar year 2025.