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- September 19, 2011
Community Paramedics Responding to Community Needs
Read moreToday’s New York Times features an article on community paramedics, highlighting Eagle County’s program. Read more.
00 - September 16, 2011
Deadlines Extended for Medicare Bundled Payment Initiative
Read moreThe CMS Innovation Center has extended the deadlines for letters of intent and applications for its Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative (BPCI) released on August 23rd. Letters of intent for BPCI Model 1 are now due on October 6th, 2011. Applications for BPCI Model 1 are now due...
- September 15, 2011
Loan Repayment Application Cycle Opening
Read moreDo you have a healthcare provider at your rural facility who is interested in loan repayment? Let them know that the Colorado Rural Outreach Program Loan Repayment Program application cycle is opening in October. Read more.
- September 15, 2011
Letter from the COO
Read moreAlthough the coming months are sure to bring uncertainty and changes for rural health as policymakers in Washington D.C. address our nation’s fiscal challenges, the Colorado Rural Health Center and rural providers still have much to celebrate. CRHC, in conjunction with the Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center in Walsenburg,...
- September 15, 2011
CME Locum Tenens Scholarship Available
Read moreThe Colorado Rural Health Center is offering Physicians, PA’s, 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 attending...
- September 15, 2011
Complete CRHC’s Policy and Advocacy Survey Today
Read morePlease inform the Colorado Rural Health Center’s (CRHC) policy & advocacy efforts for 2012 by completing our annual survey. Your feedback is invaluable and will help guide our work. The survey should take approximately 5 minutes to complete and can be accessed by clicking here. The survey will be...
- September 15, 2011
CRHC’s iCARE Program On the Cutting Edge of Quality Improvement
Read moreCRHC’s Improving Communications and Readmissions (iCARE) is on trend with national quality improvement efforts. Recently, The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) announced their Executive Director of Performance Improvement Bob Lloyd will speak at the National Forum in December on “Building an Integrated Approach to Improvement with Lean, Six Sigma,...
- September 15, 2011
CROP Fall Application Cycle Opens in October
Read moreDo you have a healthcare provider at your facility who is interested in loan repayment, or would you like to recruit a provider through loan repayment incentives? The Colorado Rural Outreach Program (CROP) Loan Repayment Program fall 2011 application cycle will be open from October 1, 2011 to October...
- September 15, 2011
CRHC Receives Rural Health Information Technology Network Development Funding
Read moreCRHC, in partnership with Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center in Walsenburg, CO, was awarded one of 40 Rural Health Information Technology Network Development (RHITND) on Sept. 1, 2011. The three year Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) funding will be used to develop a virtual data center network and...
- September 15, 2011
Colorado HealthStory Visits Rocky Ford
Read moreColorado HealthStory, a three-year project of the Colorado Rural Health Center, ClinicNET and the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved, recently completed the pilot phase of their story collecting project. Colorado HealthStory, funded in late 2010 by The Colorado Trust and The Colorado Health Foundation, is working to create...
