IRHA Annual Conference

Annual Conference

The 12th Annual Indiana Rural Health Conference will be held June 9, 10, and 11, 2009
at the Indianapolis Marriott East
7202 E. 21st Street
Indianapolis, IN 46219

(pre-Conference sessions will be held on June 9)

2008 Conference Sponsors

Indiana Rural Health Association

Health Care Excel

Educational Grant Provided by

Eli Lilly and Company

2008 Annual Conference Presentations

Deborah Aders, J.D. Bowman, Terri Ridenour - Do You Get the Bang for Your Buck When You Invest in an Electronic Medical Record? Is It Really Worth It?

Deborah Aders, Debra Poole - Staffing Solutions for Clinical and Financial Success in Healthcare

Meredith Addison, Terry Cox, Tracie Pettit, Nichole Webb - Stone Soup/Share and Care to Get Us There/Rural Trauma Training for Nurses in Indiana

Stephen Bangert - CEOs and Board Members: Relationships, Roles, and Responsibilities; Bangert Handout

Kathy Beumer, Marcia Sickels - The Farm Health Initiative: Addressing Needs of the Underserved

Kathy Beumer, Marcia Sickels - The Farm Health Initiative Handouts

Vicki Byrd, Brian Shockney - Impacting Childhood Obesity at the Local Level

Penny Callaway/Kayur Patel - Risk Management for Rural Health

Susan Carrico - Medicare Billing and Documentation

Brenda Church - Updates on RHC Legislation

Kathy Church, Barbara Regan, Linda Wells-Freiberger - The Electronic Pony Express

Robert Clifford - Preparedness: Strategic National Stockpile (SNS)

Jennifer Conder, William Field, Paul Jones - Gaining Ground on Arthritis in Rural Areas

William Courson, Steven Kennedy - Enterprise Risk Management and Healthcare: Optimizing Performance and Minimizing Risk in the 21st Century

Stan DeKemper - Effective Interventions for Methamphetamine, Oxycontin, and Methadone Abuse

Brad Dykes, Rebecca Salley, Gloria Stewart - Growing a Successful Telemedicine Program

Scott Goodspeed - The Healthcare Industry: National Outlook, Summary of Rural Healthcare Trends, and Implications of the Trends on Rural Hospitals

Audrey Greening - Medical Malpractice Changes Affecting Rural Health Organizations

Bruce Hancock - What Good is a Pharmacy Student?

Kathy Hendershott, Frank Hindes - Emergency Department Design Considerations - A Clarian Health/Methodist Hospital Case

Angela Holloway - The Ins and Outs and Ups and Downs of Legislative Advocacy

Deborah Hudson - Tobacco Control in Rural Communities

Becky Kanjirathinkal - Patient Safety in Rural Healthcare

Lindy Lady - Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)

Gregory Larkin - Pay-for-Performance: Focus on Quality

Stephen Leapman - Rural Medicine in Indiana and Answering the Challenge

Martha Levey - Substance Abuse Treatment for Women in Rural Indiana: A Costly Gender Gap

Monica Maikranz - Regional Trauma System Development

Susan Markley, Heidi Miller - Primary Care Plus: Primary Care and Behavioral Healthcare Integrations Model

George McClellan - Problem Gambling Among Youth; Promising Partnerships in Addressing Gambling

Jim Miller - Tobacco Policy Change: No Ifs, Ands, or Butts

Rachel Miller - Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP)

Tom Morris - Federal Update: What's Happening in Rural Health at the National Level?

Kimberly Norris - Medicare Part A Program Information

Hicham Rahmouni, Todd Rowland - Comparing Health Information Exchange and Health Information Technology in Two Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-Funded Communities

John Render - Health Care and the Political Process

Karla Sneegas - Debunking the Myth "It Can't Happen Here" Local Smoke-Free Air Policy in Rural Indiana; 2nd PowerPoint; 3rd PowerPoint

Kelly Templin - Professional Providers Telecommunications Network (PPTN)

James Turner - Challenges of Global Health: A Doctor's Experience in Kenya

Marian Weber - Primary Care and Behavioral Health Integration Model;

An Efficient Front Office: The Foundation of Your Practice

Thank You to Our 2008 Conference Exhibitors

The Indiana Rural Health Association thanks each of the 2008 Conference exhibitors listed below. Feel free to check out the web sites of the organizations that have been underlined.

Emerald Exhibitors

Indiana State Department of Health/State Office of Rural Health

Diamond Exhibitors

Union Hospital, Inc./Richard G. Lugar Center for Rural Health

Platinum Exhibitors

Gold Exhibitors

Indiana Hospital Association

Silver Exhibitors

Bedford Regional Medical Center

Clarian Health

Eli Lilly and Company

Indiana Tobacco Prevention & Cessation