Kendra Brooks to discuss "What is Proposal Writing"

On Friday April 5, from 9-11am, Kendra Brooks, CRHC's Development Manager/Grant Writer, will discuss "What is Proposal Writing." This workshop will explore the practical skills of researching opportunities, exploring and discussing the basic proposal sections, budgeting and the ever important evaluation section.

Kendra is a native of Illinois with a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Iowa. Her background includes over 30 years of nonprofit leadership and management in the human service, health related and educational organizations. Her proposal writing experience has spanned nearly 35 years with very positive results.

David Ginsberg to discuss "HIT and Meaningful Use" and "Deep Dive into Meaningful Use Stage II".

On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, from 10:45-11:45, David Ginsberg will discuss "HIT and Meaningful Use".  Also on Friday, April 5, 2013, from 9-11am, David will guide attendees through a "Deep Dive into Meaningful Use Stage II",  one of four workshops scheduled that morning.

 
David Ginsberg is co-founder and President of PrivaPlan Associates, Inc. and is the Senior Advisor for CRHC’s Technology for Healthcare Excellence (THE) Consortium. He has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry including expertise in managed care operations, IPA development, and physician-hospital strategic planning. Mr. Ginsberg has provided practice management consulting and outsourced services to hundreds of physician and allied health professional practices in his career and has practical real time knowledge about the realities of compliance in the physician/provider sector. David is a regular contributor to CRHC's weekly Consortium Blog. To check out previous articles or join the blog mailing list, click here.

Rebakah Gatti to discuss "The Road to ICD-10: Avoiding the Potholes!"

On Friday, April 5, 2013 from 9-11am, Rebakah Gatti, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-I, CEDC, CPMA, will lead a breakout session on The Road to ICD 10: Avoiding the Potholes. The session will focus on ICD-10 for physician practices.

Ms. Gatti has over 30 years experience in the healthcare industry, both inpatient and outpatient, with specialty in Emergency Medicine, General Surgery, OB/GYN, Cardiology, Orthopedics, Oral Surgery and Mental Health and Occupational Medicine.  Rebakah is a nationally known speaker and educator for physician groups and hospitals on ICD-10 preparation and financial neutrality, coding, auditing, modifiers, evaluation and management.  She is an AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer.  She is also the author of "Introduction to Inpatient Procedural Coding Using ICD-10-PCS." Ms. Gatti is ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer for R.T. Welter and Associates.

Beth Katzenberg to discuss "Optimizing Workflow Processes to Maximize Clinic Efficiency and Operations"

On Friday, April 5th, 2013 from 9-11am Beth Katzenberg, EdM, MBA, CPHQ, CCE will lead a breakout session on Optimizing Workflow Processes to Maximize Clinic Efficiency and Operations.  The session will focus on the design of processes that will directly determine whether they occur successfully, smoothly, and without rework.

Beth Katzenberg is a Senior Advisor at Colorado Rural Health Center and a health care quality and compliance consultant.  Since 2000, she has worked with Colorado critical access hospitals and other rural health care organizations to improve their quality systems, processes, and outcomes.  Her experience includes assessing, developing, improving, and overseeing quality management processes and tools.