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  • Could Value-based Purchasing Program Hurt Safety Net Hospitals? iVantage Report Suggests Rural May Be Different

    By on July 18, 2012

    A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests CMS’s Hospital Value-based Purchasing program could mean trouble for safety net hospitals, because safety net hospitals tend to get poorer marks from patients than do other hospitals. These patient satisfaction scores will be used to dole out bonuses and...

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  • HRSA Webinar: Using Data for Evidence-Based Quality Improvement

    By on July 18, 2012

    Friday, July 27, 2012 — 12:00 pm MDT Electronic Health Records (EHR), data warehouses, and registries are critical components to quality improvement efforts. If used properly to maximize their functionality, it’s possible to generate quality measures that provide timely, understandable, comprehensive, clinically valid, and meaningful feedback to safety net...

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  • IOM Reports Higher Payments Are Not the Cure for Doctor Shortage

    By on July 18, 2012

    An Institute of Medicine (IOM) report released Tuesday concluded that while there are wide discrepancies in access to and quality of care across geographic areas, the variations were unlikely to be influenced by changes in Medicare reimbursement rates to providers. In light of this, the IOM committee recommended Medicare...

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  • Update from the Interim CEO: Do You Regularly Promote Your Value?

    By on July 16, 2012

    In this day and age of being continually challenged to do more with less and have a lean organization, do you advocate your worth to your partners? Your communities? Yourselves? If not, there is no time like the present. On June 15, 2012, the rural report on serving Medicare...

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  • CHI Presents on the 5 Biggest Questions for Colorado After the Supreme Court’s Ruling on the ACA

    By on July 16, 2012

    Do you want to know more about the implications of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act? The Colorado Health Institute (CHI) analyzed the five biggest questions looming for Colorado in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision that the health reform law is constitutional. Download...

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  • Rural Locum Tenens and CME Travel Scholarship

    By on July 16, 2012

    The Colorado Rural Health Center is offering Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Dentists with an opportunity to get scholarship money for locum tenens pay, and/or travel costs associated with attending local, statewide, or national conferences or additional trainings. Funding cannot be used to pay for the cost of...

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  • Rural Relevance Under Healthcare Reform

    By on July 16, 2012

    iVantage Health Analytics released a quarterly update to their ongoing tracking study monitoring the rerformance of rural healthcare under the Affordable Care Act. Summary findings from research conducted by iVantage shed new, multi-dimensional light on the rural healthcare delivery system using: the latest Medicare Shared Savings data files; the...

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  • Community Transformation Grants – Small Communities Programs

    By on July 16, 2012

    Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the overarching purpose of this program is to prevent heart attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes and other leading chronic disease causes of death or disability through implementation of a variety of evidence based programs, policies, and infrastructure improvements to promote healthy...

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  • June Special Delivery Correction

    By on July 16, 2012

    In the previous issue of the Special Delivery in article, HPSA scores: What does it mean to me and my clinic?, it is stated “This score is a federal designation assigned to a geographic area, population group (such as low-income), correctional facility, state or county mental health hospital, or...

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  • Colorado Legacy Foundation Announces Recipients of $222,500 in School Health and Wellness Grants

    By on July 16, 2012

    The Colorado Legacy Foundation (CLF) awarded nearly a quarter-million dollars to thirteen school districts and one charter school throughout Colorado as part of CLF’s School Health and Wellness Initiative. They are: East Grand School District (Granby), West Grand School District (Kremmling), Durango School District (Durango), Archuleta School District (Pagosa...

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