Another Successful CSRHA Annual Conference
Many Thanks to All Who Attended!

The California State Rural Health Association (CSRHA) staff, Board of Directors, and Conference Steering Committee members thank all of you who attended our Annual Conference, Rising to the Challenge: A Unified Safety Net on December 3-5, 2007. With nearly 200 attendees, 53 expert speakers, 44 exhibitors and 14 sponsors, it was a great success! CSRHA was especially pleased to see so many new faces this year, and we look forward to getting to know each of you better over the coming months.

CSRHA would also like to thank those of you who completed the conference evaluation form, which was provided in the registration materials at the conference, as well as in an email invitation. If you attended the conference and have not yet completed an evaluation, please do so today! Click Here and take 2-3 minutes to complete the questionnaire. Your feedback is tremendously helpful, and will be used to inform planning for next year’s event.

The highly-anticipated 2007 Annual Conference Toolkit is now available!

The presentations provided by the many speakers are excellent resources for those addressing issues that affect rural health in California. Presentations available for download include:

• California Health Interview Survey, David Grant, PhD, Director, Californina Health Interview Survey, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and Elaine Zahnd, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Public Health Institute
  
• Putting Prevention at the Center of Community Wellbeing, Rachel Davis, MSW, Managing Director, The Prevention Institute
  
• California Rural Health Update 2007, Sam Willburn, Chief, DHS Primary and Rural Health Care Systems Branch
  
• Federal Policy Update: California SRHA Presentation, Tim Fry, Manager of Government Affairs, National Rural Health Association
  
• Developing Consolidated Health and Human Services Networks in Counties, Carol Mordhorst, Mordhorst Services, Inc.
  
• California HealthCare Foundation Facilitated Dialogue: Opportunities to Improve Access and Delivery of Health Services in Rural Communities, Veenu Aulakh, Senior Program Officer, Jonah Frohlich, Senior Program Officer, Rafael Gomez, Program Officer
  
• Rural Health Clinics and Medi-Cal Managed Care, Janice Milligan, Director Public Health Programs, Health Net of California and Eric Villegas, Senior Public Health Administrator
• Blue Cross of California State Sponsored Business: Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, AIM & CMSP, Sean Atha, Director, Regional Field Operations, Blue Cross of California State Sponsored Business
  
• SCHIP in California, Cynthia Reed, Legislative Analyst, Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board
• Jurisdiction 1 Part A/Part B Medicare Administrative Contractor: Q's and A's, Michael D. Schmidt, Consortium for Division of Financial Management and Fee for Service Operations, CMS
  
• The Detection of Sight-Threatening Diabetic Retinopathy with eyePACS, Jorge Cuadros, OD, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Optometric Eye Center
  
• The Role of Advocacy in Increasing Access to Child Health Care through Telemedicine, Jenny Kattlove, Health Policy Manager, The Children’s Partnership
  
• Preparing for the Next Generation: Diversity in the Health Professions, Lupe Alonzo-Diaz, Executive Director, Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
  
• Welcome Back International Health Worker Assistance Center, Rolando Castillo, PhD, Program Director, San Diego Welcome Back Center
  
• California EDGE Campaign: Keeping California Competitive, Creating Opportunity, Sharon Huntsman, Executive Director, California’s EDGE Campaign: Education, Diversity and Growth in the Economy
  
• Empowering Rural Practice: Taking a Community-Wide Approach to Chronic Care, Ann Lindsay, MD, Humboldt County Health Officer

Conference highlights, including photo gallery, video clips and more will be detailed in the winter edition of our newly revised publication of the Rural Health Advocate, scheduled to release on January 14, 2007. Stay tuned!

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