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- 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...
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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...
- September 15, 2011
Colorado Rural Health Care Excellence Award winner for 2011 –David Arnett, MD
Read moreColorado Rural Health Center awarded David Arnett, MD, with the 2011 Rural Health Excellence Award at the 20th Anniversary Annual Rural Health Conference, August 11-12, 2011. Dr. Arnett was awarded this prestigious honor because of his extensive dedication to providing rural healthcare to underserved Coloradans for over 30 years....
- September 15, 2011
Paramedics filling health care gap as need grows
Read moreA select group of paramedics in several states is helping to provide primary health care by making house calls — an initiative encouraged by the federal health care law to address shortages in primary care and cut down on expensive visits to doctors and emergency rooms. In Colorado’s Eagle...
- September 15, 2011
Connecting Health Education to Service: A Comprehensive Networking Event
Read moreThis event, held October 13 at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Campus in Aurora, is an opportunity for your site to directly recruit healthcare professionals and network with Colorado healthcare professional school staff and faculty. This is also an opportunity for healthcare professional students and residents to learn about...
- September 15, 2011
USDA Community Facilities Loan and Grant Program
Read moreCommunity Programs, a division of the Housing and Community Facilities Programs, is part of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development mission area. Community Programs administers programs designed to develop essential community facilities for public use in rural areas. These facilities include schools, libraries, childcare, hospitals, medical clinics,...
