Are you a health professional dedicated to continuously improving the quality of care in your rural community?
If so, the National Rural Health Association’s (NRHA) Quality and Clinical Conference is right for you. This interactive, educational conference is designed for quality improvement coordinators, performance improvement coordinators, rural clinicians and quality improvement organizations practicing on the front lines in rural health care. Taking place July 15-17 in San Diego, Calif., this important, cutting-edge conference will provide tools, research and collaborative opportunities to improve the quality of care in rural hospitals and integrate population health concerns into clinical practice.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a proposed rule impacting Rural Health Clinic (RHC) and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) operations. The proposed rule is now available 
On June 26, the Senate failed to act on H.R. 6331, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, which would have halted the scheduled 10.6 percent payment cut and extended a number of vital rural provisions that approximately totaled $2 billion over 18 months.The vote to close debate failed by a single vote. The NRHA was disappointed by the Senate's inability to pass Medicare legislation before the July 1 deadline. 
Approximately 1,000 rural health professionals attend the Annual Conference each year, representing the breadth of NRHA's constituencies - from clinicians, to hospital administrators, to researchers and educators, to state health personnel. The NRHA invites individuals with an interest in rural health to submit concurrent session ideas for presentation during this high-quality educational event. These sessions may be didactic lectures, hands-on interactive workshops, or roundtable discussions. Don't miss your chance to be a part of the nation's keystone rural health conference! 