New Program Open to ALL Georgia Rural Hospitals at NO CHARGE

Hospitals and health systems vary significantly in their financial strength, market position, medical staff composition, compliance programs, payer mix, service offerings, technology investments, management quality and style, information technology, and technological infrastructure—and perhaps most importantly, their willingness and effectiveness in partnering with their physicians.

This complexity requires knowledge regarding the various systems that impact financial success and positive patient outcomes.

HomeTown is proud to offer a robust population health management program, sponsored by Aetna, to provide hospital/physician leaders knowledge on how to leverage available data and resources to create valuable population health initiatives to lower costs, improve quality of care, and prepare organizations to take on more downside risk and increase shared savings. The program will include 4 live webinars as well as support courses, and access to the HTHU School of Population Health for on-demand education.

Live webinars will be held at 1:30 pm EST on:

August 16, 2023 - Kickoff & Program Overview Webinar
September 20, 2023 - Monthly Checkin
October 11, 2023 - Monthly Checkin
November 15, 2023 - Monthly Checkin
December 20, 2023 - Monthly Checkin

The Georgia Population Health Management Program is open to ALL Georgia rural hospitals.
Keep your eyes out for webinar registration links via email from Susan Wiese! All participants will need a username/password for https://lms.hthu.net in order to participate. If you need support getting your account setup, please contact hthtech@hometownhealthonline.com.

Back By Popular Request!

2023 Florida Virtual Conference

Friday, July 28, 2023

9am - 1pm EST / 8a - 12 pm CST

Including updates on Medicaid Unwinding, Medicare Updates, Legal Update and Revenue Cycle Denials & Appeals training session.

One-on-One sessions with Dale Gibson Consulting, Azalea Health & Kerry Dunning are available July 24-27th. Contact Susannah Cowart, susannah.cowart@hometownhealthonline.com to reserve an appointment for your team.

Save The Date:
FALL CONFERENCE

October 18 - 20, 2023

Upcoming Webinars & Events

HTH Monthly GA Provider Reimbursement Webinar
Next Session: July 5th

Monthly Medicare Update

Next Session: July 12th

Quarterly Coding & CDI Webinar Series
Next Session: July 25th

Quarterly Rural Health Clinic Series

Next Session: August 10th

Quarterly CFO Series

Next Session: August 31st

Live Workshop: Georgia FLEX Workshop
August 24, 2023 | State Office of Rural Health, Cordele, GA
Open to ALL Critical Access Hospitals.

Live Workshop: Georgia SHIP: RISE Bootcamp
August 25, 2023 | State Office of Rural Health, Cordele, GA
Open to participants in the RISE program.

Quarterly Florida Rural Hospital Webinar
Next Session: October 25th

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Welcome New Partner:
ASA Healthcare

ASA Healthcare Solutions is a full-service medical staffing partner. We specialize in providing high-quality staff who take pride in being healers. We understand that every facility is unique. Our goal is to partner with you to provide high caliber, experienced and compassionate healers while decreasing costs to your organization and burden on your internal staff. Through our commitment to quality, we have maintained our Joint Commission Certification in Medical Staffing since 2020.

To ensure that our clinicians are not just matched to your open job orders by experience and availability, we dig deeper to make sure our team fits into your corporate culture. Through our partnership with Relias, we vet our candidates using clinical skill, critical thinking and behavioral based assessments to ensure you get the very best match for your organization. Our credentialing process also ensures that our clinicians are knowledgeable of all regulatory bodies including OSHA, Joint Commission, DNV, CMS and regulations specific to your state. We go one step further and partner with your organization to orient our team specifically to your health care facility, which provides better continuity of care, improved outcomes and higher HCAHPS scores.

Contacts:

April Little, Director of Nursing, 229-854-5230 alittle@asahealthcare.org

Sarah Kirk, Director of Operations, 229-869-5785 skirk@asahealthcare.org

www.asahealthcaresolutions.org

Welcome New Partner: MedWorks

MedWorks has been a supplier of Nuclear Medicine/Nuclear Cardiology Imaging Services since 1999 with coverage currently in AL, MS, GA, TN, LA, and TX. We have 3 hub office locations in AL, MS and TX. While nuclear medicine and echocardiography have been our primary service lines since our inception, we are adding additional resources in both Oncology and Cardiac PET/CT currently. We offer both Fixed and Mobile System configurations fully configured with a dedicated PACS system to fit most any facilities’ needs. By partnering with MedWorks, you have a diagnostic imaging and technology leader who not only provides these valuable diagnostic services but also understands how to seamlessly integrate them into your facility.

Please contact Wendell Gibson, CEO at 205-790-2900 wgibson@medworksweb.com

www.medworksweb.com

HTHU Hosts Summer
Revenue Cycle Centered Webinars

HTHU's summer certification update webinars are ongoing for 2023. Each 90 minute live webinar offers 2 credit hours of IACET CEUs and starts at 12:30 pm EST. Join the live sessions through https://lms.hthu.net or view the recording if you miss the live session.

• Healthcare Hospitality - Recording Now Available!

• Patient Access - July 20th - includes: tracking errors & training staff, MSP best practices, creating a positive patient experience

• Billing - August 17th - includes: target probe & educate, posting your payments accurately & why it matters, how do ABNs work for billing, billing ethics

• Financial Counseling - September 7th - includes: the challenges of financial counseling, reviewing your financial assistance policy, counselor ethics & responsibilities

Open to: HTHU Revenue Cycle Subscribers, Florida Members & SHIP Grant Participants, GA SHIP: RISE Participants & Business Partners

Free ACHE Webinar:
Creating Capacity Through
AI Enabled Automation

In this session, we will explore how Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System transformed its discharge management using AI-enabled automation. By leveraging bottleneck predictions to identify the units that would provide the greatest impact with prioritized discharges, Sarasota Memorial was able to streamline discharge prioritization and patient predictions, driving discharges across the system. Learning outcomes:

Describe common challenges in managing hospital capacity and throughput.
Describe the benefits Sarasota Memorial has seen from using AI-enabled automation, including improved collaboration and communication from shift to shift, and a consistent and repeatable discharge process.
Identify real-world examples for transforming discharge management processes to improve inpatient flow.

This webinar is free and eligible for 1 ACHE Qualified Education credit. Credits can be self-reported. Webinar will be July 27, 2023 at 11 am CST / 12 pm EST.

Vitamin-ology Training

ICAHN's Vitamin-ology training focuses on vitamins - myths and truths about their use - including awareness of what's really in vitamins and supplements and which ones are the best for use.