2010 Conference
27th Annual Oregon Rural Health Conference
Thanks for making it another great conference!
The 27th Annual Oregon Rural Health Conference was a great success. Thanks to all those who attended and presented.
Mark your calendars now for the 28th Annual Rural Health Conference, September 21-23, 2011 at the Riverhouse, Bend Oregon.
Have thoughts about what you want to see at next year’s conference? Let us know.
The Annual Oregon Rural Health Conference is the largest gathering in Oregon dedicated to the important issues of rural health care. Bringing together providers, administrators, patients, activists, policy makers and others who are concerned about health care in rural Oregon, it is an opportunity to help set the agenda. In collaboration with the Oregon Rural Health Association (ORHA), Oregon Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) and the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN), the Oregon Office of Rural Health (ORH) strives to bring you the most innovative approaches to addressing today's needs.
Presentations
Following is a chronological list of presentations that this year's speakers have allowed us to post here.
Thursday
RHC Workshop
- Department of Medical Assistance Programs Rule Changes and Updates
Daneka Karma, DMAP - Preparing for Meaningful Use
Chip Taylor, MD, Medical Director O-HITEC - RHC Reimbursement Options
Mike Bell, CPA, Partner WIPFLi
Flex Advisory/ORHQN Meeting
- Flex Advisory Meeting
Kassie Clarke - CMS EHR Incentives
Julie Bannester & Jennifer Magyar, CMS Region X
- What's Next for the Flex Program?
Steve Hirsch, ORHP
- Community Needs Assessments for CAHs
Linda Lang, OAHHS - Community Needs Assessments for CAHs
Troy Soenen, ORH - Leadership Assessing Opportunities and Making Them a Reality
Michael Curtis, Neenan Company - Rural Lean Collaborative
Kelly Rinehart, OAHHS
- An Introduction to Just Culture
Scott Griffith, Outcome Engineering
- Interpreting Safety Culture Survey Results and Action Planning
Anne Skinner, UNMC & Katherine Jones, UNMC
- Physician Engagement in Patient Safety
Ricci Pardini, MD, Mountain View - TeamSTEPPS Success Stories
Joyce Wilder, West Valley
Student Presentations
- Are there behaviors that correlate with degree of diabetes control?
Rachel Seltzer - Childhood Obesity: A Review of Literature to Support Development of a Community Intervention
Kate Menninger
Friday
- Federal Issues Affecting Rural Health Care Delivery
Tom Morris, MPA - Health Reform in Oregon
Bruce Goldberg, MD - Keynote: Common Sense with a Flourish: Primary Health Care for Rural Oregon
John Saultz, MD
- The Development of the Heart 1 Regional Network
Mike Widmer, MD - Rural STEMI
Gary Zeigler, MD - The Evolution of Acute Cardiac Care at Mountain View Hospital
Ricci Pardini, MD
- It Takes a Village to Recruit a Physician
Toby Freeman
- If it Takes a Village...
Bob Marsalli - Pediatric Emergency Rural Provider Training
Philip Engle, Holly Love, RN, Rebecca Schwartz, RN, BSN, CEN, Joyce Wilder, ED
- Improving Patient Safety in Medical Offices
Lyle Fagnan, MD, Melinda Davis, PhD, Paul McGinnis, MPA
Saturday
- Oregon’s Regional Extension Center: Progress to Date
Clayton Gillett
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