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IN THIS ISSUE: July 2, 2010 Managing Risk in Challenging Times | CMS Rural Health Open Door Forum | School-Based Health Center Capitol Program | Request for Proposals from Rural Health Care Facilities | Direct Hiring of Doctors | Health Care in California | Managing Risk in Challenging Times 501 (c) Agencies Trust and Chapman invite you to attend Managing Risk in Challenging Times. This workshop and luncheon will be held July 20, 2010 from 11:00am- 1:30pm at Stella Mare's Restaurant located at 50 Los Patos Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. With more than 2,000 California nonprofit clients combined, Chapman and 501(c) Agencies Trust, devote their service and support exclusively to the needs of nonprofits. They are dedicated to helping nonprofits with affordable risk management options.
For more information and to register for this event, please click here. CMS Rural Health Open Door Forum
Please join us for the next CMS Rural Health Open Door Forum. The Open Door calls are a great way to learn about key policy and program changes in Medicare payment. It also gives the opportunity for providers to ask specific questions about problems or concerns they have pertaining to CMS policies so bring your questions! Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Conference Leaders: Carol Blackford, John Hammarlund, To participate by phone: Encore: 1-800-642-1687 Conference ID# 83092839 For ODF schedule updates, E-Mailing List registration and Frequently Asked Questions, visit our website at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/OpenDoorForums. School-Based Health Center Capitol Program Please join the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for a technical assistance call on the School-Based Health Center Capital (SBHCC) Program’s new funding opportunity for equipment purchases. Applications for this opportunity will be due to both Grants.gov and HRSA’s Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) by July 30, 2010. The session will focus on the following topic area regarding this SBHCC opportunity:
The presentation will be followed by a Question and Answer session. Please send any questions that you may want to discuss and share with the audience prior to the call to sbhc@hrsa.gov. A copy of the presentation will be available at http://www.hrsa.gov/grants/apply/assistance/sbhcc/ prior to the call. Date - Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 Request for Proposals from Rural Health Care Facilities, This request for proposal seeks participation from rural health care facilities and practitioners to investigate attitudes and perceptions regarding treatment options for early stage prostate cancer. Methodology will include both qualitative research (focus groups for both men and their wives/significant others) and quantitative research (completion of on-line questionnaires). The data provided by these subjects will be reported to the lead institution, Emory University in Atlanta, and to the sponsor, the national Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to develop a deeper understanding of the barriers encountered by rural men, and in particular African American men (AA), and their families regarding prostate cancer and prostate disease. Prostate cancer remains the most common cancer diagnosed for U.S. males, and ranks second among tumor site-specific mortality. The widespread use of screening with prostate specific antigen (PSA) has resulted in increased incidence of prostate cancer due to the early detection of the disease. Treatment options for early stage prostate cancer include surgery, radiation therapy, and “active surveillance” (AS). For AS, a prescribed protocol is used to monitor patients; however more aggressive therapy options are utilized if signs of progression occur. For men with low-risk disease or a life expectancy of <10 years, AS is considered an appropriate treatment option. For more information click here. Assembly OKs Direct Hiring of Doctors, California law prohibits hospitals from hiring physicians directly. Instead, health institutions hire physician groups; it's a law designed to keep a layer of bureaucratic insulation between doctors and hospitals. But that prohibition may be lifted, in some cases. The Assembly voted this week in favor of SB 726 by Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield). The bill has already passed the Senate, and now heads back to the Senate for concurrence. Concurrence approval by the Senate is not a rubber stamp, however. The bill passed the Senate a year ago last June, and it was different in many ways from the bill passed this week in the Assembly. (The California Medical Association, for example, supported SB 726 a year ago, but does not support this version of the bill.) To read full article click here. Health Care in California and National Health Care Reform, The Committee for Economic Development, just this week, has published a report on National Health Care Reform and California. Though the United States is the wealthiest nation in the world and rguably has the best care for persons with dire health needs who do have coverage, our overall health status is mediocre at best. Although the new law will create pathways to private coverage for some people who are not insured by their employers, and many others will be made eligible for Medicaid, the clear intent is to maintain employer coverage for as many as possible – and there is precious little in the law to improve this core structure of the U.S. healthcare system. Therefore, we believe that our health-insurance system will remain in crisis, and needs immediate attention – well beyond the recently enacted reform law – to stop steady erosion that may become sharp, quantum deterioration. We have proposed a fundamental restructuring of the health-care system to address this crisis. With the nation having focused on this issue, and with funding from the Blue Shield of California Foundation, we have worked to learn what the health-care system of California can teach us about national reform, and how national reform might affect California. To read the full report click here. View current rural job openings, click here A special thank you to our organizational sponsors!
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