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  • CRHC Receives New Workforce Grant

    By on February 16, 2010

    Nurses, doctors and other health professionals are working together with higher education institutions, state health and labor agencies and others to collectively address the long-standing problem of too-few health care providers available to care for Coloradans. With more than 30 members, the Colorado Health Professions Workforce Policy Collaborative is...

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  • Protect Rural Medicare Beneficiaries & Providers

    By on February 16, 2010

    The following is a call-to-action from our partners, the National Rural Health Association: Extend Rural Medicare Add-on Payments On December 31, 2009, a number of rural Medicare add-on payments expired. Although extenders of these provisions were included in both the Senate and House versions of health reform legislation, these...

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  • Next Consortium Webinar Feb. 18th, 12-1pm: Diving Deep Into Meaningful Use: Meaningful or Meaningless?

    By on February 15, 2010

    Please join us for an in-depth meaningful use presentation and discussion where we will build off of the information presented during January’s Consortium Webinar: Interim Final Rule, Meaningful Use, and Incentive Funding. During the presentation we will look closely at the meaningful use criteria for receiving incentive payments and...

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  • New Program to Train Jobless for Nursing Profession

    By on February 13, 2010

    Otero Junior College and hospitals in La Junta and the San Luis Valley have been awarded a $5 million grant to help jobless people learn to be nurses and nurse assistants. Sen. Michael Bennet and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced the grant Friday. “We have a chronic shortage, in...

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  • 2009 Colorado Health Report Card

    By on February 11, 2010

    The Colorado Health Foundation recently released the 2009 Colorado Health Report Card answering the question–how healthy are we? Now in their fourth year of reporting on the health status of Coloradans, they report that our overall health grades have not improved since 2006 when the Colorado Health Foundation issued...

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  • Collect Rural Photos for AIDS Education

    By on February 10, 2010

    The Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention (RCAP) is currently developing HIV/STD prevention materials specifically for rural communities is important given the unique traits of rural areas. They are in the process of building a comprehensive library of images and taglines, and need your assistance! If you are interested in...

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  • Bill Tracking Tool 2.9.10

    By on February 9, 2010

    The madness continues at the Capitol! The Senate continues to work on the revenue enhancement measures proposed by the Governor’s office and we can expect next week to focus on the FY10-11 budget. In the House, the first Committee deadline is approaching this Thursday, which means all Committees (except...

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  • Hospice Bills

    By on February 9, 2010

    The 2010 Legislative session is zooming along! CRHC has officially taken positions on three bills that seem to be moving through the legislative process fairly easily. That being said, there are two bills that will directly impact the scope of Advance Practice Nurses (APNs), in particular, those that work...

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  • Helping Haiti

    By on February 5, 2010

    Dr. Victoria King, Chief Medical Officer at St. Thomas More Hospital in Cañon City, recently traveled to Haiti on a medical mission, as did several other Colorado doctors. These are her words about the experience: “I went out to the field and did wound care, casting of fractures, one...

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  • Save the Date!

    By on February 5, 2010

    The Forum 2010Date: April 19-21, 2010Presented By: CRHC & ClinicNetMore Info: CLICK HERE CRHC Rural Health ConferenceDate: June30-July 2, 2010Presented By: CRHCMore Info: CLICK HERE

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