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 7:00 am | Registration Desk Open |
| 7:30 am - 8:15 am | Breakfast with Department of Health Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Leader - Catie Holstein |
| 8:15 am - 8:30 am | Welcome & Introductions - Dawn Bross, Samaritan Healthcare |
| 8:30 am - 9:30 am | Opening Keynote: Leading Transformative Change - Bertha H. Safford |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Exhibits & Break |
| 9:50 am - 10:50 am | CAH 1: Integrating Palliative Care in Rural Hospitals and Clinics - Cheryl Waitkevich, Pat Justis | CAH 2: Leading Change from Where You Are - Stefanie Simon | EMS 1: Tips for the Rural Ambulance Service Leader - Aarron Reinert | EMS 2: The Use of EMS Checklists - Shaughn Maxwell | RHCAW 1: Tips on RHC Billing - Katie Jo Raebel | RHCAW 2: RHC Survey Tips - Suzanne Kinchen, Pam Schlauderaff |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | CAH 1: New Payment Models for CAHs: What is Happening and How are they Responding? - Jacqueline Barton True, Gary Swan, Rosalinda Kibby, and Tom Wilbur | CAH 2: Preparing Yourself for Change: The Costs and Benefits of a Proactive Approach - Stefanie Simon | EMS 1: Moving into the Future: Leadership and Integration in the Health System - Aarron Reinert | EMS 2: Mobile Integrated Healthcare and Community Paramedicine - Mike Lopez, Catie Holstein | RHCAW 1: Cost Report Prep & More RHC Billing Tips - Katie Jo Raebel | RHCAW 2: Chronic Care Management Services - John Bartell |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch Plenary: Building Community Health - John Wiesman |
| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | CAH 1: Critical Access Hospital Board Engagement - Jody Carona, Ben Lindekugel | CAH 2: Working through Resistance - Stefanie Simon | EMS 1: Volunteer Ambulance Service Sustainability - Catie Holstein, Pat Justis | EMS 2: Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers - Cindy Button | RHCAW 1: How Do I Change My RHC Rate? - Katie Jo Raebel, Madina Cavendish | RHCAW 2: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic through Better Use of the Prescription Monitoring Program - Chris Baumgartner |
| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Exhibits & Refreshment Break |
| 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm | CAH 1: Advancing the Medical Home Through Community and Insurance Partnerships - Jac Davies | CAH 2: Communicating through Change: Effective Strategies to Keep Others Engaged - Stefanie Simon | EMS 1: Strategic Planning in Rural EMS: Develop an Action Plan for Improvement and Sustainability - Mike Lopez, Catie Holstein | EMS 2: Why & How to Measure Your Agency's Performance - Scott Dorsey, Jen Killon, Melissa Belgau | RHCAW 1: Health Management Associations (HMA): Insight into Alternative Payment Model #4 (APM #4) - Art Jones, Gary Swan, and Madina Cavendish |
| 3:20 pm - 3:45 pm | Exhibits & Break |
| 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm | Incident Debriefing: Lessons Learned about Care Transitions and Coordination - Lara Ray, Michelle Zicha, Chris Clutter, Ben Suttlemyre, Michael Stephens, Carlton Evans |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Reception (Registration Desk Closed) |
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| 7:00 am - 7:45 am | Registration Desk Open | Breakfast | RHCAW Membership Meeting |
| 7:45 am - 8:00 am | Welcome - Jodi Perlmutter, Northwest Rural Health Conference Committee Chair |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Morning Keynote: New Payment, New Care....We're Getting There: the Art of Rural Health Care Capacity in a Changing Healthcare Payment World - Clint MacKinney |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Reactor Panel - Renee Jensen, Katelyn Samuelson, Christina Wagar |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Exhibits & Refreshment Break |
| 10:00 am - 10:55 am | When the 'ACA' Rubber Meets the Road: Creating Value through a Care Navigation Workforce - Cindy Burman-Woods, Jennifer Johnston | Reducing Disparities in Diabetes Care: the Everyone with Diabetes Counts (EDC) Program - Lisa Packard | Get Ready for Value-Based Payments - Sue Deitz, Terry Cumpton |
| 11:05 am - 12:00 pm | Rural Medical Residency Programs: What Does It Take to Develop New Programs? - Judith Pauwels; Training Tomorrow's Rural Family Medicine Workforce: Early Reports from a New Residency Program in Western Montana - Frank Reed and Rebecca Morgan | Physician Quality Reporting System and CAHs: New Requirements, New Opportunities - Kelley Carnwath | How to Access Loan Repayment Resources for Your Clinicians - Renee Fullerton |
| 12:10 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch & Awards Ceremony |
| 2:10 pm - 3:05 pm | AHECs Support Rural Communities in Health Workforce Development - Susan Skillman | Surviving Sexual Violence in the Military: A Personal Story - Ronda Metcalf | Impact of Telehospitalist Services, Transformation of a Critical Access Hospital through Telehealth - Pam Cooper, Sanjiv Panwala; Expanding Access to Care for Medicaid Patients through Telehealth - Michelle Wernert |
| 3:05 pm - 3:45 pm | Exhibits & Refreshment Break |
| 3:45 pm - 4:40 pm | Afternoon Keynote: Telehealth from a Rural Perspective - Michael Meza |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | WRHA General Meeting: For Members & Guests Interested in Joining |
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| 7:15 am - 7:45 am | Registration Desk Open |
| 7:45 am - 8:40 am | Breakfast, Roundtable, & Networking |
| 8:45 am - 9:40 am | WWAMI Rural Health Research Center: Recent Studies on Rural Home Health Access and Physician Assistant Education - Sue Skillman, Eric H. Larson | New Opportunities to Improve Stroke Care in Rural Areas: From Home to EMS to Hospital and Back Home Again - Kim Kelley, Bobbi Halberg, and Mary McAllister | Behavioral Health in Primary Care: a Model for Change through Innovative Collaboration - Beth Williams Geiger |
| 9:45 am - 10:40 am | UW Center for Health Workforce Studies: New Projects Examining Immigrants in the U.S. Healthcare Workforce, and an Early Warning System for Healthcare Workforce Demand Changes in Washington - Davis Patterson, Sue Skillman | The New Age of Rural EMS - Louis Mendiola | Needs Assessment Data for Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs in Washington State: Rural vs. Urban - Allison Chee; Great MINDS: Great Medical Homes Include Developmental Screening - Edna Maddalena |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Break |
| 11:05 am - 12:00 pm | Closing Keynote: Legacy Leadership: Leading with Purpose and Passion - Gloria Burgess |
| 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm | WRHA Board of Directors Meeting; Conference Adjourned |
