Wednesday, April 2 :  Breakout Sessions

• Hospital Board Training (HTH Board Participants Only)
• Swing Bed Management Program: CMS Updates (GA SHIP Consortium Participants, $125 per person for all others)
• Rural Health Clinic
• New Member & Business Partner Orientation
• Medical Malpractice & Nuclear Verdicts (Executive Leadership Development Program Participants Only)
• Revenue Cycle 
• Chronic Care Management & Diabetes Collaboratives (GA Flex Participants Only)

Thursday, April 3 :  Main Session

• Rural Healthcare Legislative Update, Jimmy Lewis
• DCH Update & Key Issues, Commissioner Russel Carlson
• Rural Hospital CEO Panel, Michael Purvis, Lagina Evans & Damien Scott
• SOWEGA Community Paramedicine Panel, facilitated by Michelle Huskey
• Rural Healthcare Legal Update, Michele Madison
• Town Hall

Friday, April 4 :  Main Session

• GA Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities Agency Update, Commissioner Kevin Tanner
• Tort Reform, Bartley Miller

View One Page Agenda Overview Here | Hospitals: View Details Here | Business Partners: View Details Here

Upcoming Webinars & Events

Monthly GA Provider Reimbursement Webinar
February 5| 10 AM EST

CEO & Leadership Day at the Capitol
February 6 | 8 AM EST

Executive Leadership Development Program Kickoff
February 7 | 8 AM EST

Monthly Medicare Update

February 12 | 10 AM EST

Quarterly Rural Health Clinic Webinar

February 12 | 1:30 PM EST

Webinar: USAC Program Updates (with Proper Connections)
February 21 | 10 AM EST

Login at https://lms.hthu.net to register, enroll, attend live webinar sessions or view recordings of all webinar events!

Join Dylan Proper of Proper Connections to learn the latest on FCC’s Universal Service Fund program and updates for upcoming FY 2025.

Proper Connections, a HomeTown Health Business, specializes in connecting rural healthcare providers with significant savings through USAC Programs, and helping providers capitalize these programs across their organizations. Join Dylan as reviews new FCC DA 24-229 and other prior orders affecting the RHC Program.

At Proper Connections, we specialize in USAC consulting and can help you through the process.  We are your trusted partner in providing the best support for your needs while delivering excellent customer service. Contact Dylan Proper, CFO at 866-780-2369 or info@proper-connections.com. Please feel free to visit our website for more information at http://www.proper-connections.com/.

REGISTER HERE
Upon clicking registration link, login with your HTHU username/password, then register. Return to HTHU on February 21st to join webinar.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to expand the number of fellows at accredited Addiction Medicine Fellowship (AMF) and Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship (APF) programs trained as addiction medicine specialists who work in underserved, community-based settings that integrate primary care with mental health disorders and substance use disorder prevention and treatment services. (HRSA-25-069) 

The Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program encompasses both psychiatry and an addiction subspecialty for primary care doctors training in prevention and treatment services in rural areas that do not have access or have limited access to substance use disorder treatment.

HRSA will award approximately $23 million to 28 awardees over a five year period through this funding opportunity.

Eligible applicants: 

• Sponsoring institutions of accredited AMF programs or accredited APF programs. The sponsoring institution must be accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
• A consortium consisting of at least one teaching health center and one sponsoring institution of an addiction medicine or addition psychiatry fellowship program

Please view the funding opportunity on Grants.gov for complete eligibility information. View Grant Campaign Page.

The application deadline is February 28, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET. 

As part of the 2024-2029 Georgia Flex grant for Critical Access Hospitals, HomeTown needs insights from your healthcare organization. 

One of the goals of the Flex program is to enhance preventative care initiatives, early detections and interventions through an emphasis on Annual Wellness Visits.

Please complete the brief survey here to help establish a baseline of Annual Wellness Visit data.

Click here to complete survey.

As part of the 2024-2029 Georgia Flex grant for Critical Access Hospitals, HomeTown is giving CAHs the opportunity to join a collaborative focused on Colorectal Screening Awareness. 

Collaborative members will receive education, tools and encouragement towards emphasizing and promoting colorectal screenings within their community.

Click here to apply to join the collaborative.

State Senate Bill 505 requires Georgia hospitals to annually publish and update specific financial information on their websites utilizing templates provided by the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH).

View the bill here.

The templates are intended to standardize uniform reporting across all Georgia hospitals by July 1, 2025.

SORH released templates and held a webinar in December 2024. Read more from SORH:

Georgia Senate Bill 505 (SB505) went into effect on April 4, 2024, requiring certain Georgia hospitals to revise publication of their organizational and financial documents on their websites to align with the standardized templates provided by the Department of Community Health (DCH). For-profit hospitals are excluded.

The State Office of Rural Health (SORH) within DCH has been working with partners and stakeholders on the “Hospital Information Transparency” project for several months to develop standardized templates that hospitals must utilize to publish the list of organizational and financial documents outlined in SB505. Building on the original House Bill 321, SB505 mandates posting of certain “Organizational & Financial Information” in a prominent location on the main page of the hospital’s website that links to the list of specific documents outlined in the statute by July 1, 2025.

Hospitals must also provide DCH updated URL links via email at DCH.Transparency@dch.ga.gov by August 1 annually. The hospital URL links will be located on DCH’s hospital transparency website.

Questions or requests for technical assistance may be submitted to DCH.Transparency@dch.ga.gov. 

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