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