Annual Conference Attendee List

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Overall Conference Evaluation

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Annual Conference session materials

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

11 - 12:15 p.m.

1A: Improving access to oral health through a dental support

1B: State Partnerships Program: An opportunity for civilian and military collaboration in international rural health

1C: Health councils and community health workers: effective partners in addressing rural health needs

1D: Rural ethics resources for a reforming health care system

1E: Practical strategies for identifying community needs and engaging the community

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Part 2

Part 3

1F: National plans to inprove health literacy

1G: HRSA rural health update

1HA: A national study of nurse leadership, patient safety culture and resources for quality improvement in rural hospitals

1HB: Trends in provision of skilled nursing facility and other long term care services by critical access hospitals

1HC: Correlates of quality in critical access hospitals: a Kentucky case study

1HD: Rural health clinic performances: contributing factors

1I: Medicare & Medicaid electronic health record incentive payment program

2:45 - 4 p.m.

2A: One size does not fit all: New tools for unique small community clinics

2D: Impact of registries on patient, provider and system chronic disease management outcomes in RHCs: results of the Nebraska Registry Partnership program evaluation

2G: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services

2HA: Rural Health People 2020: New rural health priorities & strategies identified through the National RHP 2020 survey

2HB: New world women: Rural appalachian women's perceptions of a community-based physical activity program

2HC: How does the rural food environment affect rural childhood obesity?

2HD: Improving access to oral health care through a dental support program

2I: CMS Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs - Overview

Keynote Address

Mark McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform - Brookings Institution, Director

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Plenary B: US/Mexico border health issues

Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., VP & Chief Medical Officer, Medical Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas

Plenary C: Implementation of the ACA: New Coverage, New Payment Models; New Rural System?

Part 1

Part 2

Andrew Coburn, Ph.D., Maine Rural Health Research Center, University of Southern Maine, Deputy Director

Keith Muller, RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, Director

10:15 - 11:30 a.m.

3A: NRHA's approach to rural general surgery/rural general surgery lessons from Maine and Wisconsin

3B: ED communication measures: CAH feasilibity field test/2010 fourth annual national CAH ED study:Rural relevant benchmarks

Part 1

Part 2

3C: State offices of rural health: Get to know your partners in fostering collaboration, promoting leadership and strenghthening rural health delivery systems

3D: Live telemedicine: The return on investment for safety net providers in rural Indiana

3E: The Community Integration Program: Influencing medical students to become rural physicians through service learning

3G: Emerging issues in rural Medicare policy

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Part 2

3HA: Patterns of care for rural and urban children with mental health problems

3HB: Variability in general surgical practice in rural and urban U.S. hospital settings

3HC: Heavy alcohol consumption among methamphetamine and cocaine users in rural America: Implications for treatment and prevention

3HD: Analysis of substance abuse and mental health disparities in the Appalachian region and access to treatment services

12:45 - 2 p.m.

4A: Key environmental health competencies for rural primary care providers

Handout 1

Handout 2

Handout 3

4B:Assets and potential barriers when creating an academic service partnership/critical access hospital - academic medical center collaboration

4C: Holding the line: Health care quality's role in health care reform

4D: The rural health care clinic role in the changing health care delivery models

4E: West Virginia Recruitable Community Program

4F: Addressing rural health workforce shortages: Innovative models in workforce development

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

4G: Frontier extended stay clinic demonstration: Opportunities and barriers to creating a new provider type

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

4HA: Re-hospitalization among Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes

Reilly Address

Ronnie Musgrove, National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services

3:15 - 4:30 p.m.

5HB: Creating a lean culture in a lean economy: Tool to achieve quality improvements and a pioneering hospital's story/Lessons from the Carolinas lean health care roundtable: Collaboratively achieving a lean management culture in rural health organizations

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Part 2

5C: AHEC: Pipeline for the rural health workforce in America

5D: Engaging primary care settings in suicide prevention

5E: Using the CDC National Healthcare Safety Network for health care associated infection surveillance

5G: Effective strategic and operational approaches to address border health problems

5HB: How are family medicine Rural Training Tracks faring? Initial findings from the Rural Training Track Technical Assistance Program

5HC: Using the Index of Relative Rurality (IRR) to Estimate Degree of Rurality at the Small- Area Level in Health Services Research

5I: Office of Rural Health Policy rural health outreach tracking & evaluation project

Friday, May 6, 2011

Washington Update

Maggie Elehwany, J.D., NRHA vice-president of government affairs and policy

9:45 - 11 a.m.

6A: Gaps, deficiencies and solutions in rural medical transportation/The Rural Nebraska Regional Ambulance Network: Strengthening rural EMS in Nebraska

6B: On the leading edge: Community-based palliative care

6C: A sum greater than its parts: Using rural health networks to strengthen rural health care

6D: How rural health care clinics can use technology to protect their revenue and process claims more effeciently

6E: VA expands intensive case management to homeless veterans in rural communties: E-RANGE

6G: Accountable care organizations in rural settings

6HA: Using technology to deliver health care education to rural patients

6HB: Frontline to online: Leveraging social nerworking to improve rural veterans health care

6HC: VA Capitol Health Care Network rehabilitation program: Expansion of physical and occupational services for rural veterans

6HD: VA entollees use non-VA hospitals heavily, but less in rural states than urban states

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Gaby Boscan at gboscan@NRHArural.org or at 202-639-0550.