October 28, 2024
AHRQ Examines Diagnostic Errors in Rural Healthcare Settings
A new issue brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) emphasizes disparities in access to high-quality diagnostic care and underscores the importance of community engagement, bolstering care coordination, and screening patients for social determinants of health.
Click Here to Read Issue Brief
October 28, 2024
New Funding Opportunity: Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Professionals – HRSA-25-068
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to improve access to behavioral health services.
The purpose of the Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Professionals is to increase the supply of behavioral health professionals and improve the distribution of a quality behavioral health workforce. The program has a specific focus on understanding the needs of children, adolescents, and young adults at risk for mental health, trauma, and behavioral health disorders.
The BHWET Program for Professionals prepares the workforce by emphasizing interprofessional team-based models of care, integrating behavioral health training in primary care settings and recruiting a diverse workforce interested in serving high need and high demand areas. The program also invests increasing the number of clinical supervisors.
Eligible Applicants
Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on January 21, 2025
Click Here to Apply
October 28, 2024
Jab Gab Webinar Series: Childhood and Adolescent Vaccination Updates for Health Professionals
Don’t miss the next session on childhood and adolescent vaccination updates for Health Professionals.
Webinars will also be recorded and available On-demand a week following the live event.
Registration allows you to participate in the live Zoom webinar or watch the recorded video. You must be registered to claim credit and may claim only once for each session. Recorded videos will be available until May 31, 2025. You may not claim credit after May 31, 2025.
By the end of the series, participants will be able to:
Webinar Schedule:
Cost: Free
Click Here to Learn More and Register
October 28, 2024
Register Now: Missouri Rural Health Conference, November 6-7
The Missouri Rural Health Conference, jointly hosted by the Missouri Rural Health Association and the Missouri Association of Rural Health Clinics, will take place on November 6-7, 2024, at the beautiful Lodge at Old Kinderhook in Camdenton, Missouri. This event promises to bring together healthcare professionals, policymakers, and advocates to discuss critical issues and innovations in rural health.
Key Highlights of the Conference
Click Here to View Agenda
Registration Fee: $200
When: November 6 -7, 2024
Where: Old Kinderhook, Camdenton, MO
Click Here to Register
October 25, 2024
New Funding Opportunity: Graduate Psychology Education Program
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to increase access to behavioral health services in high demand areas.
The Graduate Psychology Education Program (GPE) -HRSA-25-067 provides training to doctoral health service psychology students, interns, and post-doctoral residents in integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral health. The program will prepare trainees to provide behavioral health services in community-based primary care settings. The program also supports faculty development in health service psychology.
HRSA will award approximately $22.8 million to up to 50 grantees over a period of three years through this opportunity.
Eligible Applicants:
Applications are due by January 21, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET
Click Here to learn more and apply
October 22, 2024
NRHA Now Accepting Applications – Rural Health Community Capacity Academy, Apply by November 1
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) is now accepting applications for the association’s Rural Health Community Capacity Academy.
The Academy is designed to support rural organizations in addressing local community health challenges by building their capacity for community engagement and development. Selected organizations will work with rural health development coaches who provide personalized guidance to assess strengths and develop strategies to overcome challenges.
This program is aimed at established rural health organizations with a demonstrated need for capacity-building support.
Assistance may focus on improving operations, such as:
Application Process:
Costs:
Participation in the Rural Health Community Capacity Academy is fully funded. There are no fees for participants.
Please contact Courtney Glover at CGlover@ruralhealth.us with any questions.
Click Here to Apply
October 22, 2024
Registration Open for Missouri Rural Health Day Celebration
Registration is open for the 2024 Annual Rural Health Day Celebration! This year the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care is hosting the celebration at Capital Bluffs Event Center, located in the Turkey Creek Golf Course in Jefferson City.
Please join us to celebrate Rural Health Day which promotes the “Power of Rural” and the ongoing efforts to communicate, educate, collaborate, and innovate to improve the health of rural Missourians.
Intended Audience: The audience is anyone interested in rural health:
Cost: Free
When: Thursday, November 21, 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Where:
Click Here to Register
October 22, 2024
Rural Health Champions – Call for Nominations
The Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care (DHSS, ORHPC) is seeking nominations for 2024 Missouri Rural Health Champions.
National Rural Health Day provides an opportunity to honor remarkable individuals and organizations going above and beyond for rural health and ORHPC needs your help in identifying persons and/or organizations as Rural Health Champions.
Please take a moment and think of just one person or organization that should receive honor and recognition for their work in rural health and complete the nomination form located here.
Awards will be presented on November 21, 2024, during the Missouri Rural Health Day Celebration. This award is designed to honor a minimum of one individual and one group, depending on the number and type of nomination received. The person or group honored should demonstrate how their contributions are making a difference in Missouri rural health care through collaboration, education, innovation, and communication.
The deadline for nominations is October 31, 2024.
Click Here to Nominate Your Rural Health Champion
October 22, 2024
Reminder: Hospitals and CAH Respiratory Illness Reporting Requirements Begin November 1, 2024
In the CY2025 Medicare Inpatient Hospital Prospective Payment System Final Rule (starting on page 898), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added requirements for hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) to electronically report information related to flu, COVID-19 and RSV via the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).
CDC has posted instructions for Reporting Requirements, Frequency, and Pathway as well as templates, training slides, and additional resources.
Reporters may use either the weekly reporting pathway OR the daily reporting pathway to satisfy requirements for Hospital Respiratory Data for CMS CoP; reporters do NOT need to provide data into both pathways to meet the requirement.
Got questions? Please read the linked sources above or reach out to your CMS Regional Representative.
Click Here to Access NHSN Respiratory Data (HRD) Reporting
October 17, 2024
Telehealth Resources for Patients and Providers
The Department for Health and Human Services (HHS) has the following telehealth resources for patients and providers:
