Month: January 2024

RQITA Monthly Edition, January 2024

January 26, 2024

RQITA Monthly Edition, January 2024

Included in this issue:

  • Questions from the Field
  • Resources and Tools
  • Upcoming Deadlines and Reporting Reminders
  • Upcoming Events

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Webinar on Rural Pediatrics ECHO

January 26, 2024

Webinar on Rural Pediatrics ECHO

The American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAPs’) National Rural Adolescent and Child Health’s (NRACH) Rural ECHO Learning Collaborative is intended for individuals who lead or are interested in le4arning about pediatric ECHOs targeting rural health care providers.

The NRACH ECHO Training Center will host ECHO programs for providers to help build capacity and provide ECHO immersion training and technical assistance to organizations interested in becoming an ECHO hub.

To join this learning collaborative click Here

To learn more, fill out this form

You can register to join throughout each quarter in 2024

Webinar: AHEAD Model in Rural, January 29

January 26, 2024

Webinar: AHEAD Model in Rural, January 29

Rural health leaders with interest in state-based value-based payment models and advancing health equity are encouraged to join this webinar to discuss the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development model.

Intended Audience:

  • Rural Health Leaders, including
  • State agencies
  • Medicaid
  • Public Health

Objectives:

  • Describe AHEAD key elements and timeline
  • Consider AHEAD opportunities and requirements, especially from a rural perspective
  • Identify potential implications for rural hospital and primary care participation

When: January 29, 1:00 p.m. CST

Register Here for AHEAD Model in Rural

National Rural Health Resource Center Now Accepting Applications – Rural Healthcare Provider Transition Project

January 26, 2024

National Rural Health Resource Center Now Accepting Applications – Rural Healthcare Provider Transition Project

According to experts, it’s important to build cultural competence in health care as providers begin to focus on health equity and value-based care. A

The National Rural Health Resource Center is now accepting applications for the Rural Healthcare Provider Transition Project which provides selected small rural hospitals and certified RHCs with technical assistance to strengthen key elements of value-based care.

Ideal Candidates:

All eligible Small Rural Hospitals (SRHs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) are encouraged to apply. Ideal applicants are those that demonstrate:

  • Need and readiness for comprehensive TA
  • A level of financial stability
  • A strong, stable leadership committed to active engagement in all phases of the project

This project will best support candidates that are not currently or have not previously received similar TA and do not have readily available support and access to VBC transition tools and resources.

For questions regarding eligibility, application or scoring process:

Learn More

Click Here for Eligibility and Application Information

Nominate Your Rural Health Heroes for 2024 NRHA Awards

January 26, 2024

Nominate Your Rural Health Heroes for 2024 NRHA Awards

Nominations are now open the National Rural Health Administration’s (NRHA’s) Rural Health Awards.

Each year NRHA honors outstanding individuals and organizations who have dedicated their time and talents to improving the health and well-being of others.

Previous Rural Health Award recipients have stretched the boundaries of possibility by forging innovative programs and services, making rural life healthier and more compassionate.

Nominate your favorite rural health individual, organization, program or student for these prestigious awards soon.

  • No more than three nominations per individual or organization accepted
    • If more than three nominations, only the first three considered
    • No letters of recommendation or other materials accepted, this ensures an equal platform
  • Submissions accepted online only
  • Deadline is Tuesday, February 20
    • No late submissions
    • No exceptions

Winners will be honored during NRHA’s Annual Rural Health Conference in New Orleans.

If you have questions about he Rural Health Awards, contact Donna Douglas at ddouglas@ruralhealth.us

Learn More about NRHA’s Annual Rural Health Conference

Click Here to Nominate your favorite Rural Health Hero

NRHA Annual Conference Registration is Now Open

January 26, 2024

NRHA Annual Conference Registration is Now Open

Registration is now open for the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) Annual Rural Health Conference, May 6-10 in New Orleans.

Join NRHA and hundreds of rural health leaders to help raise the standard for rural health with more than 80 innovative, practical, and cost-saving sessions and much more.

NRHA’s Annual Conference runs concurrently with the 9th Rural Hospital Innovation Summit, and the expanded Health Equity Conference, May 6-7 and Rural Medical Education Conference May 7 occur immediately beforehand.

Act soon to nominate your rural health heroes for NRHA’s 2024 Rural Health Awards to be presented at the event.

Click Here to learn more about the NRHA 2024 Rural Health Awards

Click Here to learn more and Register for the Conference

HRSA Administrator Carole Johnson, Joined by Representative Lauren Underwood, Launches New National Maternal Health Initiative

January 26, 2024

HRSA Administrator Carole Johnson, Joined by Representative Lauren Underwood, Launches New National Maternal Health Initiative

On Thursday, January 25, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator Carole Johnson, joined by Representative Lauren Underwood (D-IL), co-chair of the Black Maternal Health Caucus, launched a year-long Enhancing Maternal Health Initiative. The initiative will strengthen, expand, and accelerate HRSA’s maternal health work to address maternal mortality and maternal health disparities in partnership with mothers, grantees, community organizations, and state and local health officials across the country.

The kick-off event at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, DC, included:

  • HRSA maternal health grantees form 11 states
  • District of Columbia
  • Key national organizations
  • Experts, providers, and individuals with lived experience
    • Attendees shared personal perspectives on maternal health care and support
    • Innovative ways HRSA grantees are making an impact on maternal health
    • How maternal mental health is addressed.

HRSA’s Enhancing Maternal Health initiative aims to:

  • Achieve measurable progress in maximizing the impact of HRSA grants and programs to address maternal mortality and improve maternal health
  • Foster new partnerships and collaborations among HRSA grantees in high need, high opportunity jurisdictions to address maternal mortality and improve maternal health
  • Strengthen HRSA’s internal capacity to maximize the impact of HRSA’s maternal health grants, programs and resources

This initiative focuses on parts of the country where:

  • HRSA has significant investments
  • There are significant opportunities for new partnerships and collaborations
  • There is high need
    • Arizona
    • Alabama
    • Georgia
    • Illinois
    • Kentucky
    • Maryland
    • Michigan
    • Missouri
    • Montana
    • North Carolina
    • Oregon
    • District of Columbia

HRSA brings grantees from across the states of focus to foster cross-program and cross-state relationships, to drive progress in maternal health and end the maternal mortality crisis.

Learn More about the HRSA Maternal Health work

You’re Invited! – Advancing Community Paramedicine in Kansas: Policy Options & Considerations, January 30

January 26, 2024

You’re Invited! – Advancing Community Paramedicine in Kansas: Policy Options & Considerations, January 30

This event will focus on policy considerations and opportunities related to community paramedicine.

Community paramedicine is an emerging model of care that allows and enables paramedics, EMTs and other clinicians to deliver non-emergent public health, primary and preventive services to populations in the community.

These services extend beyond the roles of traditional transportation and emergency care and generally seek to increase access to care, improve patient outcomes, and avoid duplication of existing services.

The event will feature an expert panel, including individuals with experience implementing and delivering community paramedicine services, national policy experts in the field of mobile integrated health, and Kansas policymakers.

Attend in-person or virtually!

Where: Kansas Health Institute, 212 SW 8th Avenue, Topeka, KS

When: Tuesday, January 30, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Register for to attend In-Person

Register to Attend Virtually

Opportunity for Participation: Safety Program for Telemedicine – Improving Antibiotic Use

January 25, 2024

Opportunity for Participation: Safety Program for Telemedicine – Improving Antibiotic Use

Have you adapted your antibiotic prescribing approach for Telemedicine? Please consider joining the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHQR) Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving Antibiotic Use.

This no-cost, cutting-edge program, to improve patient safety and antibiotic use in telemedicine is designed for:

  • Primary care
  • Urgent care
  • Direct to consumer practitioners

Benefits of participation:

  • Learn evidence-based strategies from nationally renowned experts in telemedicine diagnosis and antibiotic prescribing
  • Ear CEU/CME and ABIM MOC points
  • Improve efficiency and patient satisfaction with antibiotic prescribing in your practice with scripting for live and patient portal interactions
  • Perform better on antibiotic-related quality measures (HEDIS, MIPS)
  • Practices participating in a prior similar program saw a 9% decrease in antibiotic prescribing overall and a 15% decrease for acute respiratory infections

Learn More

AHRQ Safety Program for Telemedicine

Join an information webinar to learn more:

Still have questions? Please send an email to safetyprogram4telemedicine@norc.org