February 21, 2024
New RHIhub Topic Guide – Rural Maternal Health
The RHIhub has released the Rural Maternal Health Topic Guide.
This new topic guide shares information on maternal and infant health disparities in rural area and covers issues impacting rural maternal health, including:
Rural Maternal Health Topic Guide
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February 21, 2024
Upcoming Webinar – 2024 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, February 27
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) for 2024 through the Calendar Year 2024 PFS Final Rule.
This rule makes policy updates which may increase accessibility of behavioral health services, telehealth services, and other vital health services in rural areas.
CMS subject matter experts will present on some of the highlights from the final rule including these topics and the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program.
Registration
2024 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
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February 20, 2024
NTTAP Webinar Series 2023-2024 Strategies for Advancing Health Equity in Health Centers, March 14
This webinar explores strategies for advancing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) within health centers.
Learn specific approaches to guide health equity work:
Attendees will increase confidence in developing and utilizing JEDI goals, cultivating advancements in both internal and external diversity and equity at their health center.
Learning Objectives
Target Audience
Cost: No Cost
When: March 14, 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
February 20, 2024
NTTAP Webinar Series 2023-2024 Data Driven Health Equity: Strategies for Collecting Patient Data in Health Centers, March 7
Consider joining this upcoming webinar to dive into key strategies for using identity data in population health management.
Expert faculty will highlight the importance of gathering data to address health disparities, with a focus on utilizing Electronic Health Records (HER) for both internal and patient-focused justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) purposes.
Participants will gain confidence in advancing health equity with strategies to collect and use demographic data for developing and monitoring health equity plans.
Learning Objectives
Target Audience
Cost: Free
When: March 7, 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
February 20, 2024
Funding Opportunity: Advanced Nursing Education – Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (ANE-SANE) Program
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to increase the number of qualified sexual assault nurse examiners.
The Advanced Nursing Education-Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (ANE-SANE) Program will expand advanced nursing education and training to improve access to sexual assault forensic examination. The ANE-SANE Program aims to provide better access to mental and physical care for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.
The purpose of this program is to increase the supply, distribution and quality of the sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) workforce and aims to provide access to mental and physical care for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.
HRSA will award approximately $14.2 million to up to 28 grantees over a period of three years through this funding opportunity.
Eligible Applicants:
Applications are due by April 2, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. ET
Questions? Please contact
Michael Clark, ANE-SANE@hrsa.gov, (301) 594-4203
.February 20, 2024
New COPD Videos available: Getting Started with Pulmonary Rehab in Rural Communities
Two new educational videos now available from the National Rural Health Resource Center highlight the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the country’s rural communities and the steps that critical access hospitals and other small rural hospitals can take to improve access to much-needed pulmonary rehabilitation services.
The first video, Understanding COPD and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, provides an overview of COPD – its symptoms ad causes – and explains how rural-based pulmonary rehabilitation services help to restore independence and quality of like in COPD patients.
The second video, How to Launch a Pulmonary Rehab Program, highlights the benefits – to hospitals and their community – of operating rural pulmonary rehab programs, and shares practical advice and tips on how critical access hospitals and small rural hospitals can successfully build and sustain their own pulmonary rehab programs. The video includes a look at two critical access hospitals – Sparta Community Hospital in Illinois and Hood Memorial Hospital in Louisiana – that opened pulmonary rehab programs in 2023.
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February 20, 2024
Training Opportunity – HIPAA Right of Access Compliance
In 2019, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative to advocate for individuals trying to obtain their health records in a timely manner at a reasonable cost as required by covered entities in the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
If your organization is not responding timely to requests for medical records, a complaint to the OCR can trigger an investigation resulting in fines and other consequences, such as being posted on the OCR HIPAA website and a forced Corrective Action Plan.
A dedicated government webpage lists HIPAA News Releases Y Bulletins listing OCR cases after investigating organizations which includes Right of Access settlements.
Click here to access the page for “lessons learned” through penalties and settlements.
The American Institute of Healthcare Compliance now offers a Right of Access online training program with option to certify (online, with an assigned proctor).
Brief Course Overview
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Right of Access provision 45 C.F.R. 164.524
Cost
AIHC Members pay $375
Non-Members pay $625
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February 9, 2024
2024 NOSORH Rural Health Grant Writing Institute: Register by Friday, February 16
The National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) invites you to a unique learning experience where you can enhance your grant writing skills, turn rurality to your advantage, learn to connect with funders and more.
This virtual learning series is tailor-made for beginners aiming to develop the skills needed to research and draft winning program proposals from various funders.
The institute runs March 4 – April 29, 2024. Virtual learning sessions will take place Mondays from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. ET
Curriculum Highlights:
Participants will benefit from:
Interested persons must register by Friday, February 16.
Cost: $750
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February 7, 2024
Telehealth & Prescribing
On January 31, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized rules for the prescribing of buprenorphine through the use of telehealth.
In these final rules, opioid treatment programs (OTPs) will be able to use telehealth to prescribe buprenorphine without an in-person visit.
It is important to note that these final rules are not in regard to using telehealth to prescribe a controlled substance in general. This is a very specific rule that applies to OTPs and the use of telehealth to prescribe buprenorphine with some additional applications specifically to methadone.
The broader policy of using telehealth to prescribe controlled substances without an in-person visit (or meeting one of the narrow exceptions found in federal statute) still remains a temporary allowance through the end of 2024.
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