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- March 10, 2010
Detailed Consortium Member Benefits Now Available
By Melissa Bosworth on March 10, 2010Read moreAs a valued Consortium Member, your hospital or clinic can benefit from high value services such as IT group purchasing, EHR Assessment/Roadmapping, HIPAA Policies & Procedures & Risk Analysis, Incentive Funding Calculation assistance, IT Security Framework Certification and MUCH MORE! Detailed descriptions of each service and costs are now...
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EHR as a Physician Recruitment Tool?
By Melissa Bosworth on March 10, 2010Read moreRural hospitals and clinics are no strangers to the challenges of recruiting and retaining high quality clinical staff. A recent Health IT Pulse article argues that in spite of the cultural barriers, costs and resources involved in adopting technology, the benefits obtained in being able to recruit staff who...
- March 10, 2010
Federal Healthcare Reform Update
By Alicia Haywood on March 10, 2010Read moreWell, it sounds like this is it folks. Either we are about to witness federal healthcare reform move forward or we will not see anything happen……Or at least, that is what every policy wonk is saying from D.C. to California. Here’s the latest and greatest on what people are...
- March 9, 2010
Free Health Education Webinars
By Bridgette Olson on March 9, 2010Read moreLive healthy by attending one of Kaiser Permanente’s FREE online classes. View the class through your Web browser and listen through your phone. You can also register as a phone-only participant. Visit KPWebinar.org for more information and to register.
- March 9, 2010
Proposal Writing Workshop for Frontier Communities
By Bridgette Olson on March 9, 2010Read moreJoin the National Center for Frontier Communities for a FREE Workshop on proposal writing, designed to help frontier communities be more successful in their Federal funding proposal preparation. The training will emphasize health project funding available from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy. This will be a one-day...
- March 8, 2010
Register Now: The Forum 2010
By Melissa Bosworth on March 8, 2010Read moreThe Forum is a two-day conference that will bring together participants from all over Colorado and the surrounding states for an essential educational, training, and networking event for all safety net clinics, members of the clinic team, and other interested parties. This year, the event has expanded its reach...
- March 8, 2010
More News on CRHC’s New Workforce Grant
By Bridgette Olson on March 8, 2010Read moreThe Colorado Trust (TCT) is featuring CRHC in its blog today, discussing our work to improve Colorado’s healthcare workforce shortage, and The Trust’s role in funding that work. Read more on the TCT blog, CommunityConnections!
- March 5, 2010
3.5.10 Updated Bill Tracker
By Alicia Haywood on March 5, 2010Read moreNot a lot of new bills added this week. Seems like the hot button issues are still concerning the budget supplementals and medical marijuana. Stay tuned next week for HCPF figure setting by the JBC on Thursdsay, March 11th. Please see my post from March 2nd concerning APN/PA rate...
- March 4, 2010
Colorado Public Radio Reports on CRHC’s Workforce Work
By Bridgette Olson on March 4, 2010Read moreRecruiting doctors, nurses and other health workers to rural Colorado is hard. Offering to pay off student loans helps. This year there’s ten times as much money available to do that, despite a shrinking state budget. CPR Health Reporter Eric Whitney explains… Listen to the broadcast
- March 4, 2010
United for Health (Unidos por la Salud)
By Bridgette Olson on March 4, 2010Read moreMarch 13, 2010, 9am-4pm, Crowne Plaza HotelDid you know that Colorado Latino/as are affected by some chronic and communicable diseases at rates sometimes three times higher than the general population? You are invited to a summit with other concerned Latino leaders and stakeholders from Colorado to break the cycle...