Conference Updates

Conference Workshops:

• Rural eHealth Summit, November 18, 2009
  This Summit will provide practical, real world information to assist rural health providers with implementing health information technology applications in their clinical practice. To view the Summit agenda please click here.
  
  
• Grants Technical Assistance Workshop, HRSA.
  This workshop will empower and inform communities to take full advantage of available funding opportunities and to learn effective ways to write a successful grant application. The workshop will include grant writing tips, activities and funding opportunities. This workshop is limited to 50 participants, first-come, first-served and will be held November 17, 2009.
  
  
• Best Practices in eHealth to Improve the Health of Rural Populations, Speranza Avram, Christine Martin, CTEC and Jenny Kattlove, The Children’s Partnership.
  This presentation will include providing participants information on The California Telemedicine and eHealth Center (CTEC) seven-step telemedicine program development model that assists and guides organizations through the planning and development process. It will also highlight best practices to ensure funding and sustainability in regards to how telehealth in schools can increase access to acute and specialty care for children.
  
  
• Healthcare Industry Reform, One Rural Community at a Time, Mike Kaminaka,  Physicians Health/Major Medical Integrated, Inc.
  This presentation will investigate how a community of providers can triangulate (hospital, physician, and community) to create a self-sufficient healthcare delivery network with little to no disruption to the providers or the commerical insurers.
  
  
• Strategic Restructuring for Community Clinics: Options and Experiences with Partnerships and Mergers, Melissa Schoen, California Healthcare Foundation.
  This presentation will explore various types of partnerships now being used by community clinics and regional consortia, including administrative consolidation and merger. It will also examine what opportunities strategic restructuring might offer clinics seeking to strengthen their positions now and remain viable in the years to come and learn what factors contribute to its success.
  
  
• Meeting the Challenges in California Rural Health Clinics, Gail Nickerson, Adventist Health
  This presentation will provide background information and the latest information about the new federal legislation for RHC's, Stimulus Funding as it relates to RHC's, and emergining strategies for collaboration among rural providers to ensure that the patients they serve recieve the best quality and most cost-effective care possible.
  
  
• Exploring New Outreach Trends: A National Needs Assessment on Outreach Programs and the Farmworkers They Serve, Adam Sharma, Farmworker Health Services, Inc.
  This presentation will focus on the topics impacting Migrant Health Centers nationwide. Data findings will include new and emergining farmworker populations, outreach program trends and challenges, farmworker health needs and barriers to care, cultural competency needs, and also what is going to happen next.
  
  
• The Electronic Record: Planning is Crucial, Lynn Edwards,  Bear Valley Community Healthcare District
  This presentation focus on providing participants with the knowledge to plan and implement an electronic medical record in an acute care and clinic setting. Topics will include discussion on organizing an "EHR Committee," software and hardware selection process, program compatibility issues, workflow, access, retention and many more. Real examples will be used to demonstrate how to overcome hurldes with implementation.

Submit a Rearch Poster Abstract

The California State Rural Health Association (CSRHA) is pleased to announce a call for presentations for the 9th Annual Rural Health Conference, Navigating Together Through Risk and Opportunity, on November 18-20, 2009 at the Sacramento Convention Center. Accepted presentations will receive complementary registration valued at $360.

This year’s conference focuses on providing rural communities with the necessary tools, resources and best practice models for developing sustainable healthcare systems in light of economic disruptions, as well as how to effectively advocate on behalf of rural at the local and state level.

CSRHA is accepting presentations that align with the following tracks:

• Challenges and Changes: Working Through Potential Challenges and Finding Solutions
• Best Practices: Replicable, Innovative Programs/Promising Practices for Increasing Access to Healthcare in Rural Communities

Presentations should target as many of the following audiences:

• Board members of rural health organizations
• Social Service Organizations
• Clinical Managers and Staff
• Physicians
• Rural health advocates and community members
• Administrators and CFOs of rural health care organizations, including:

• Rural Hospitals
• Community Health Centers
• Rural Health Clinics
• Health and Human Service Agencies

Submission Information and General Instructions:

• Click here to download and complete the submission form.
• Email completed form to Shannon Means at smeans@csrha.org by no later than August 5, 2009
• Submissions will be selected by the CSRHA Annual Conference Steering Committee through a blind review process.
• Selected presenters will receive complementary registration ($360 value).
• Further details will be provided with the notification of submission acceptance.

We look forward to receiving your submission!