Rocky Mountain Regional Healthcare Summit March 10, 2011

Presented by HealthONE, the March 10th Rocky Mountain Regional Healthcare Summit is created for clinical leaders and executives. There is no charge to attend. Click here for more information.

Mapping Tool Helps Families Find Locations to Apply for Medicaid, CHP+

A new online mapping tool now available to help Colorado families easily find locations where they can get help applying for Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus, or CHP+.

The Economic Impact of Health Reform in Colorado Issue Brief

The Colorado Trust recently released an issue brief examining the potential budgetary impacts of federal health care reform on Colorado families, businesses and the state. Click here to read the issue brief.

Commonwealth Fund Examines State Roles in Accountable Care Organization Promotion

Colorado is one of 7 states profiled in the Commonwealth Fund's recently released report: On the Road to Better Value: State Roles in Promoting Accountable Care Organizations

American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation to give grants to free clinics for diabetes programs

The AMA Foundation is accepting applications for its Healthy Communities/Healthy America program, which will award up to 10 free clinics with grants of $10,000 to implement diabetes management and education projects for the uninsured. Projects must focus on helping uninsured diabetics successfully achieve or maintain recommended A1C levels and improve their self-management skills. Letters of inquiry are due March 21. Visit the AMA Foundation website at http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/ama-foundation/our-programs/public-health/healthy-communities-healthy.shtml to view eligibility criteria and to download an application.

UPDATED: Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) conference scholarships & travel support

Kaiser Permanente is generously offering scholarships for lead staff at ClinicNET affiliates to attend Institute for Healthcare Improvement conferences. In addition, they have provided ClinicNET with a limited amount of funding to support travel for eligible conference attendees. Click here for a list of upcoming IHI conferences through June. If you or another lead staff member at your clinic are interested in attending one of the upcoming IHI conferences please email Brooke Powers at brooke.powers@clinicnet.org 

"This was the second IHI national conference I have attended, the first in 2006, and both proved to be quite valuable to my professional development. I have also done some of their online Open School courses and found them to be informative and well structured. I definitely feel that anything the IHI does is of high quality and worth the time and other resources for anyone at any level of an organization. They tend to accommodate all levels of knowledge in quality improvement work. They specifically address health care issues but come at it from all angles offering everything from board level to front line staff training. The lessons they teach are based on best practices and science from other industries as well as within the medical field. They have given me specific best and worst practices or lessons learned. I have had hands-on training in the details of quality improvement work from statistics to physician buy-in on projects. They offer tools that are tested and easy to use. I have not been disappointed by any of the tools or programs they have offered. The IHI was started by Don Berwick, a pediatrician who is now the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and it continues on with a strong group of leaders he has trained from all over the world. I feel anything they put on or put out is worth checking out or spending time and money on." - Joe Craig, MD, Senior Medical Director, Rocky Mountain Youth 

The Forum 2011: Essential Perspectives for Safety Net Providers, April 20-21

The Forum is a two-day conference presented by ClinicNET and the Colorado Rural Health Center that will bring together participants from all over Colorado and the surrounding states. It serves as an essential educational, training, and networking event for all safety net clinics, members of the clinic team, and other interested parties.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - Thursday, April 21, 2011
Red Lion Hotel Denver Southeast, 3200 South Parker Road, Aurora, CO 80014

President’s HHS budget for FY 2012

Read the budget-related materials, including the FY 2012 HHS Budget in Brief, at www.hhs.gov/budget .

Connecting Health Education to Service: A Comprehensive Networking Event!

The Colorado Rural Health Center, Colorado Community Health Network & the Colorado Area Health Education Center invite ClinicNET affiliates to exhibit at a March 18th primary care focused job fair and networking event. Space is very limited! If interested please contact Brooke Powers at brooke.powers@clinicnet.org

COLORADO VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE SITES

Click here for the most current list of Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites for Colorado.

Also available are fliers in Spanish and English which explain the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

Colorado Household Survey - Impact of health reform on uninsured Coloradans

The Colorado Health Institute’s new issue briefs highlight the impact of health reform on reducing the number of uninsured Coloradans and identify groups that may not readily benefit from efforts to expand health insurance coverage, specifically “medically vulnerable” Coloradans and families with mixed insurance status.

Fostering Careers in Health Care: A Discussion with Faith & Community Leaders Linking Faith and Community Leaders to Information about Job Opportunities Created by the Affordable Care Act

Join Joshua DuBois, Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and Dr. Mary Wakefield, Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration for a conversation on job opportunities created by the Affordable Care Act. Combined with the earlier investments made by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the provisions of the Affordable Care Act will support the training, development, and placement of more than 16,000 new primary care providers over the next five years.

CALL DETAILS
WHAT: Fostering Careers in Health Care: A Discussion with Faith & Community Leaders
Linking Faith and Community Leaders to Information about Job Opportunities Created by the Affordable Care Act
DATE: Tuesday, February 15, 2011
TIME: 1:30 PM Eastern, 12:30 PM Central, 11:30 AM Mountain, 10:30 AM Pacific
DIAL IN INFORMATION:  1-888-323-9813 (no passcode is needed)

Participants:

• Joshua DuBois, Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
• Dr. Mary Wakefield, Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration
• Mara Vanderslice, Acting Director, Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
• Burt Waller, Executive Director, Christ Community Health Services, Memphis, TN
• Dr. Mary Hill, Associate Dean, College of Pharmacy, Nursing & Allied Health Sciences, Howard University

You do not need to RSVP for this call. If you have questions please send an email to:  partnerships@hhs.gov

Hosted by the Partnership Center and the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The Blending & Braiding Your TANF Initiative has announced six regional trainings from March – June throughout Colorado.

The Making the Most of Public Funding trainings are an opportunity to learn about:

• TANF Funding for Supportive Services: Participants will learn about the range of appropriate services and eligible populations under TANF funding.
• Blending and Braiding: Participants will learn concrete fiscal coordination strategies and nitty gritty details of how to successfully blend and braid funds.
• Partnering with Your Funders: Participants will learn a process for using data, advocacy, and community input to advocate for funding community needs.

The trainings are appropriate for directors, managers, and fiscal staff, or anyone else with fiscal knowledge and an interest in understanding fiscal coordination AND family, consumer, and community advocates and non-profits interested in partnering with local funders and having a voice in funding decisions. For more information, to register, and to access updated dates and locations, please click here.

Marillac Clinic (Grand Junction) position openings

Marillac Clinic is seeking a full-time Physician and a full-time Physician Assistant or a Family Nurse Practitioner.  Click here for more information.

Call for Applications - New Colorado Collaboration Award will Offer $50,000 to Nonprofit Organizations for Excellence and Innovation

The Colorado Nonprofit Association, in partnership with a group of Colorado funders, announced the creation of the Colorado Collaboration Award, designed to acknowledge and inspire successful cooperation among organizations. Click here for more information including the applicaiton. The deadline for submission is April 15th, 2011. The selection committee will choose the winning collaboration in August with the award presentation taking place at the Colorado Nonprofit Association's Fall Conference & Exhibition in October, 2011.

Recent news from the Colorado Dept. of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) Information

Click here for more information about the 2011 Health Care Policy and Financing Regional Conferences in Pueblo, Greeley, Grand Junction, Denver, Durango and Lamar.

Click here to see the January issue of "At a Glance"

Click here to see "CICP Communicates"

The first edition of the Colorado Eligibility and Enrollment Services for Medical Assistance Programs (EEMAP) Newsletter from HCPF and Maximus is available by clicking here. This newsletter provides updates and important information about Family Medicaid and CHP+ enrollment processes for the many organizations across the state that are interested in helping families apply for and access public health care services.