Month: January 2024

Call for Speaker Proposals: SORH Regional Partnership Meetings

January 5, 2024

Call for Speaker Proposals: SORH Regional Partnership Meetings

Are you passionate about driving positive change in rural health? Here’s your chance to share your experiences and insights with State Offices of Rural Health (SORH).

The National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) invites you to participate in the 2024 SORH Regional Partnership Meetings in collaboration with the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP). Your unique insights and expertise can play a pivotal role in shaping the future of rural health.

Proposals are due on January 19, 2024.

Region Specific Topics

  • Region A
    • Role in New England Health Association
  • Region B
    • Georgia legislative tax credit program to address hospital closures
    • Community Paramedicine
  • Region C
    • Presentations on Artificial Intelligence (AI) specifically related to State Offices of Rural Health (SORH) work and implementation
    • Rural Maternal and Obstetrics Management Strategies (RMOM) grant experiences
    • Presentations on addressing Dental Access/Care – low-income access to care, especially for children and in more rural areas
  • Region D
    • Presentations on Artificial Intelligence (AI) specifically related to State Offices of Rural Health (SORH) work and implementation
    • Developing Partnerships
  • Region E
    • Rural Veterans Initiatives

See Complete Topic List

Submission Guidelines

  • Proposals should align with one or more of the stated topics
  • Submissions must include a clear objective and outline of the presentation
  • Proposals should offer:
    • practical,
    • innovative
    • and actionable insights
  • Collaborative presentations showcasing partnerships and multi-stakeholder initiatives highly encouraged
  • Presentations designed to fit a 45-minute session format

Additional Information

  • The planning committee, comprised of SORH members and FORHP representatives will review the proposals.
  • Notifications of acceptance sent out by early March 2024.
  • Speakers are responsible for their registration, travel, and accommodation arrangements.
  • Selected presenters will submit their Travel Pre-approval form at least eight (8) weeks before anticipated travel.
    • Eligible presenters will receive one night’s lodging and associated expenses.
    • Must request a second night’s lodging in advance.

For questions about the meeting please contact Caroline Wroczynski, NOSORH Education Manager at carolinew@nosorh.org

For technical questions regarding submission proposal please contact Trevor Brown, NOSORH Program Coordinator, at trevorb@nosorh.org

State of the Healthcare Industry: Markey Updates for Rural Strategy

January 5, 2024

State of the Healthcare Industry: Markey Updates for Rural Strategy

The National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH), in partnership with Stroudwater Associates is conducting a series of quarterly market updates for rural healthcare stakeholders to stay current on the changes in the healthcare marketplace and strategize responses to ensure vital services for rural communities.

By the end of these sessions, participants will be able to:

  • Understand new regulations and laws that have occurred during the last 90 days
  • Describe the current market dynamics of the healthcare industry
  • Evaluate the effects of these trends on rural providers
  • Apply this understanding to their own organization

Who Should Attend:

  • State Offices of Rural Health
  • Rural Hospitals
  • Primary care practices
  • Non-profit organization
  • Rural philanthropy organizations
  • Policymakers
  • Government agencies
  • Other rural health stakeholders

When:

  • January 18, 2024, 3 pm ET

Register Here

Upcoming Webinar – Make Clinic Training Stick

January 4, 2024

Upcoming Webinar – Make Clinic Training Stick

This one-hour Executive Briefing is designed for healthcare managers and leaders. Let Brian Lee, CSP, HoF be your guide to hardwiring a culture focused on 5 star Patient Experience with Everyone’s a Caregiver®.

Make clinic training stick by empowering your providers and caregivers to deliver a thoughtful, timely patient experience, every time.

Why You Should Attend:

  • Learn best practices and skills to improve and own your patient experience scores
    • Improve patient satisfaction scores and low Google ratings
  • Enhance your onboarding and retention process by educating new hires with 17 must-have patient experience communication skills
    • Inspire new hires
    • Reduce mentor training hours
  • Boost employee engagement while learning together and sharing ideas
    • Energize your staff
  • Meet your patients’ expectations every time
  • Become a patient relationship expert and learn how to train your staff as patient relationship experts

When: Monday, January 22, 8 PM/9 M/10 C/ 11E

Register Here

Training Opportunity – Overdose Safety Planning in Rural Communities, January 30

January 3, 2024

Training Opportunity – Overdose Safety Planning in Rural Communities, January 30

A significant challenge facing rural community members is how to work with those who are struggling with opioid use and other substance use while effectively intervening to reduce the risks associated with overdose. Safety planning is an important aspect of overdose prevention.

In keeping with harm reduction principles, this webinar, Overdose Safety Planning in Rural Communities will explore best practices for overdose prevention so that community members feel more empowered to conduct safety planning with those individuals at risk.

Presenter:

  • Delores Blackwell, LCSW
    • A multijurisdictional licensed clinical social worker
    • Has held numerous administrative and clinical positions within both the addictions and mental health disciplines.
    • An adjunct professor at both Touro College and Hunter College Silberman Schools of Social Work.
    • Conducts and develops trainings for mental health and addictions professionals in both direct practice and leadership positions.
    • Currently a Research Project Manager at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center

Credits

  • This training has been approved for two renewal hours (CASC, CPP, CPS) and two initial hours (CPP, CPS) through New York State’s Office of Addiction Services and Supports (NYS OASAS)
  • As an IC & RC member board, OASAS accredited courses are granted reciprocal approval by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, Alcohol and Drug Counselor Committee
  • Participants are required to attend the ENTIRE training, turn on their video cameras and actively participate in order to receive a Certificate of Completion.

When: Tuesday, January 30, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET

Register Here

New Funding Opportunity – State Maternal Health Innovation – HRSA-24-047

January 3, 2024

New Funding Opportunity – State Maternal Health Innovation – HRSA-24-047

The Health Resources and Services Administration announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the State Maternal Health Innovation (State MIH) program.

The purpose of the State MIH program is to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity (SMM) 3 by:

  • Improving access to care that is comprehensive, high-quality, appropriate, and on-going throughout the preconception, prenatal, labor and deliver and postpartum periods,
  • Enhancing maternal health surveillance and data capacity, and
  • Identifying and implementing innovative interventions to improve outcomes for populations disproportionately impacted by maternal mortality and SMM.

The program objectives to be accomplished during the period of performance to support programs goals are:

  • By September 29, 2025 (Project Year 1), each recipient will develop a draft 5-year Maternal Health Strategic Plan (MHSP) to improve maternal health
  • By September 29, 2025 (Year 1), award recipients will identify core measures to assess and report on program activities, including innovations, throughout the period of performance
  • By September 29, 2026 (Year 2), each recipient and their established MHTF will submit a final MHSP
  • By September 29, 2029 (Year 5), each recipient will increase the number of community members from populations with the highest rates of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity that participate on the state’s Maternal Health Task Force and in the implementation of the MHSP activities
  • Recipients will release a public Maternal Health Annual Report each year of the period of performance about maternal health topics relevant to the state
  • By September 29, 2029 (Year 5), identify and share the innovations with potential for replication, scale-up, and sustainability to improve maternal health

Eligibility

  • Non-profits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • Special district governments
  • City or township governments
  • County governments
  • Small businesses
  • Independent school districts
  • Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
  • Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments
  • For profit organizations other than small businesses
  • State governments

Additional Information on Eligibility:

  • You can apply if your organization is in the United States and is:
    • Public or private
    • Non-profit Community-based Tribal (governments, organizations)

For questions, please contact Sarah Meyerholz at (301) 443-1702 or email wellwomancare@hrsa.gov

View Grant Opportunity

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Notice of Funding Opportunity – Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program (EB-TNP) – HRSA-24-010

January 3, 2024

Notice of Funding Opportunity – Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program (EB-TNP) – HRSA-24-010

The Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) HRSA-24-010, to integrate behavioral health services into primary care settings using telehealth technology.

The goal for the BHI-EB-TNP Program is to support evidence-based projects that utilize telehealth technologies through telehealth networks in rural and underserved areas to:

  • Improve access to integrated behavioral health services in primary care settings
  • Expand and improve the quality of health information available to health care providers by evaluating the effectiveness of integrating telebehavioral health services into primary care settings and establishing an evidence-based model that can assist health care providers.

Applicants are encouraged to propose novel ways to achieve equity in access to affordable, high-quality, culturally and linguistically appropriate telebehavioral care for rural and underserved patients across the U.S.

Eligibility

  • Independent school districts
  • Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • Small businesses
  • City or township governments
  • Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
  • Special district governments
  • Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
  • For profit organizations other than small businesses
  • County governments
  • State governments

Additional Eligibility:

  • You can apply if your organization is in:
    • United States
    • Guam
    • Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
    • Northern Mariana Islands
    • American Samoa
    • U.S. Virgin Islands
    • Federated States of Micronesia
    • Republic of the Marshall Islands
    • Republic of Palau, and is:
      • A public or private, non-profit or for-profit entity
      • Domestic faith-based or
      • Community based organization

Applicants can be located in an urban area, but the proposed telehealth network must include at least two originating sites located in rural and underserved areas.

Applications are due March 22, 2024

If you have questions or need additional assistance, please contact Carlos Mena at (301) 443-3198 or email cmena@hrsa.gov.

Apply Now

American Institute of Healthcare Compliance Trainings

January 3, 2024

American Institute of Healthcare Compliance Trainings

The Department of Justice obtained more than $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022. As we look to what the future holds in 2024, it is important to get back to the basics when it comes to mitigating risk.

The American Institute of Healthcare Compliance (AIHC) is available to support organizations with free resources, online and live training programs offered at a reasonable cost.

Short Coding & Documentation Compliance Courses for 2024:

Please click on title of course for complete description and registration information

  • Auditing Chiropractic Records for Compliance – 2024 – $75
    • Designed as continuing education for auditors, insurance carrier SIU auditors, compliance officers and employers of Chiropractors
    • Highly recommended for Chiropractic Providers, Office managers, coders, billers and Chiropractic Billing Companies
  • Capturing & Coding Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) for Physicians and Hospitals – $45
    • Introduces the importance of addressing, documenting, and coding Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) within our healthcare system to improve the quality of care and health outcomes in our communities
  • E/M Coding & Documentation 2024 – $75
    • This training is designed for those coding, billing and documenting evaluation and management (E/M) services in a patient’s medical records and highly recommended for Electronic Health Record Vendors, Health Plans and Special Investigation Unit (SIU) Auditors
  • Psychiatric Coding & Documentation Compliance – 2024 – $75
    • Designed for:
      • Coders
      • Outpatient clinical documentation improvement professionals
      • Medical billers
      • Providers
      • Compliance Officers
      • Payers
      • Auditors and Investigators

Webinar – 3RNet January Training for Rural Health Care Recruiters, January 9, 2:00 p.m. ET

January 2, 2024

Webinar – 3RNet January Training for Rural Health Care Recruiters, January 9, 2:00 p.m. ET

Formerly known as the National Rural Recruitment & Retention Network, 3RNet is the national nonprofit with expertise in finding and placing clinicians in underserved areas.

Each month, 3RNet holds a live training session explaining how to post jobs and find job seekers on its site.

Register Here

Webinar – Resources for Planning Rural Training for Doctors – Wednesday, January 17 at 12:00 pm ET

January 2, 2024

Webinar – Resources for Planning Rural Training for Doctors – Wednesday, January 17 at 12:00 pm ET

In this one-hour session, experts will provide background information on Section 126 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 – the federal legislation that creates positions (also known as slots) for physician residencies in underserved areas. The hospitals selected for these federally paid positions are being determined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in a five-year process that will distribute 200 new residency slots each year.

This session, hosted by the FORHP-supported program that helps hospitals plan and develop rural residencies will feature representatives from CMS to discuss the application process for Round Three, with a focus on considerations for rural hospitals interested in expanding rural residency training.

Recently, researchers from FORHP’s program released analysis of the 99 hospitals that were awarded slots in Round Two to determine rural location of new physician placements – whether sites were rural as defined by CMS or by FORHP – and the time they are planning to train in these locations. Only three programs were found to be training their residents for 50 percent of the time or greater, in a CMS or FORHP rurally located area.

When: Wednesday, January 17, 12:00 p.m. ET

Register Here