In a time of limited resources, clinic staff and volunteers need to do 3 things:
- Get focused on what matters
- Get clear on what you can control
- Get moving to take action
When you leave this presentation, you will feel empowered to use the tools you learned - tools for creative problem solving and action planning - to make a positive impact on those things you can control and influence. Led by Kimberly Douglas, Founder and President of FireFly Facilitation. All conference attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Ms. Douglas' book, The Firefly Effect.
The New Face of Health in America - Health reform is a hot topic, and President Obama has promised major change on the national level. But what will that mean to us in our day to day lives? How will it effect the work that we do? Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association and Donna Looper, representing the National Association of Free Clinics will outline new legislation and how the changes will impact health care. Download Alan's presentation or Donna's presentation.
Monday 9:15 - Creating Sustainable Funding in Challenging Economic Times (part 1) - Learn a tested system to identify and cultivate donors who love your mission - donors who will give for operations, capital, and endowment - even during challenging financial times. Learn how to engage your community in your organization's mission and to inspire giving, even in a lagging economy. Designed for board members, executive directors, CEOs, and fund development professionals, this entry-level seminar will give you the fundamentals to embark on the path to sustainability and grow your major gifts programs year after year.
Led by Terry Axelrod, in this Introductory Session, you will learn:
- An overview of the Benevon Model, an organic system for building sustainable funding for the mission of your organization from multiple-year individual donors
- How to implement mission-focused, permission-based fundraising
- How to make your organization more visible in your community
- How to identify and personally cultivate individual donors who are passionate about your mission
Click here for session handout.
Monday 11:00 - Sustainable Funding (part 2) Terry Axelrod will present the second half of the session including a case study from a Virginia clinic.
Tuesday 9:45 - Conducting a Capital Campaign in the Current Economy
If you’re thinking of launching a campaign, or have one on hold until the economy improves, Wendy McGrady's session is the one to attend.
The session will cover the vital components of campaign planning and readiness, as well as key benchmarks of a successful campaign, as tested by a feasibility study. Participants will leave with a greater understanding of, giving trends during economic downturns and recessions, how to continue to successfully fundraise in the current economy, how to know if your organization is ready for a campaign and how to prepare for it, and the importance of relationships to any development program.
Tuesday 11:15 - Planned Giving: Laying the Groundwork for Future Gifts
Ever wondered how planned giving could be working for your organization, but too intimidated by the subject to figure it out? This course is designed to help nonprofit organizations learn to how to create and direct their planned giving efforts, beginning with a general overview of what is viewed by many nonprofits as a very complex subject. Wendy McGrady will provide participants with a greater understanding of how to plan for, implement and market a planned giving program, as well as the various types of planned gifts available and how to find available resources.
Monday 11:00 - VaRISK 2 – A Partnership of Protection A detailed examination of the VaRISK 2 program and its involvement with the Free Clinics, to include a brief history of its coverage and commitments to the health care community as well as a description of the protections afforded by Don Lemond.
Tuesday 9:45 - Protecting Healthcare Providers in This Economy: An update from the trenches
Jerry Canaan will discuss the latest trends in cases from Virginia's healthcare regulatory boards, provide an update on potential healthcare legislation at the upcoming session of the Virginia General Assembly, and discuss risk management lessons learned from recent medical malpractice litigation.
Tuesday 11:15 - Prescription and Over-the Counter Drug Misuse and Abuse
Prescription drug abuse is an epidemic in the Appalachian region that is impacting public health, education, economic development and family life. This talk will examine epidemiologic factors associated with prescription and over-the-counter drug misuse. Commonly abused prescription and over-the-counter drugs will be discussed and safe patient and prescriber factors that can increase the risk of prescription drug abuse will be compared. The strengths and limitations of prescription-drug monitoring programs will be explained. Session participants will discuss actions they have taken in their community to fight prescription drug abuse. By Sarah T. Melton, PharmD,BCPP,CGP
Monday 9:15 -
Community Emergency Preparedness: The Crucial Role of Free Clinics Providing Care in an Austere Environment. Morris Reece will briefly describe current regional and hospital preparedness efforts; explain the importance of “critical mortality” in providing patient care; evaluate situations where care may need to be provided under austere conditions; discuss the importance of alternative care sites in providing medical care; explain the role that free clinics and similar organizations have in preparing, planning, and providing care in mass-casualty and pandemic situations.
Monday 11:00 - Diabetic Care What are the Current or Changing Standards of Care for Diabetic Clients? Tony Ramsey discuss the updated standards of care for diabetic patients. Topcs will include a discussion of diagnostic testing, insulin and oral therapies as well as life style strategies.
Tuesday 9:45 - Roles Within Clinic Structures As a panel, a physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant and executive director will
discuss their roles based on professional regulations, the successes/challenges in building/managing a team; and how these roles may change in the future.The panel will consist of Susan Bonner, Mary Beth Carr, Cathy Lewis, and John Reuwer. Note: no power point presentation was made.
Tuesday 11:15 - Clinic Training Issues As a panel, a physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant and executive director will
discuss training issues for personnel and volunteers.
Potential training issues include non-compliance,
cultural influences, barriers to care, on-line training, and telehealth used as educational/training medium. The panel will consist of Susan Bonner, Mary Beth Carr, Cathy Lewis, and John Reuwer. Note: no power point presentation was made.
Monday 9:15 -
Update on American Dental Association Access Activities
The Council on Access, Prevention and Interprofessional Relations (CAPIR) is dedicated to providing leadership, vision and coordination of the ADA’s activities to advance oral health care within an interdisciplinary health delivery system, promote prevention as the cornerstone of oral health and improve access to oral health services for underserved populations. This is accomplished through recommending policies, developing resources and programs, providing technical assistance, and maintaining liaisons and collaborating with a wide variety of partners. CAPIR strives to promote optimal oral health for all. Dr. Mark Crabtree, the 2009-2010 CAPIR chair, will share an overview of the Council’s current work, including promoting oral health literacy; enhancing the dental public health infrastructure through collaboration between the public and private sectors; eldercare initiatives; expanding Give Kids A Smile beyond the day; ongoing prevention activities including fluoridation, school-based sealants, and oral cancer; and nurturing the Community Dental Health Coordinator pilots. In addition, Dr. Crabtree will describe the Piedmont Virginia Dental Health Foundation’s Community Dental Clinic located Martinsville.
Monday 11:00 -
ORCAS - Catch the wave of good oral health and "YOU OUGHTA KNOW"
A demonstration of the state of the art mobile dental equipment used in the Augusta Regional Dental Clinic's School Based Sealant Program called "ORCAS" which stands for Outreach, Resources, Care and prevention, Assessments and Sealants...a whale of a dental program. Learn tips and best practices for developing a program in your area, working with your local school districts and hearing about the experience of assessing over 65 children in one day! Have you ever had questions for your dentist, but never had the courage to ask? Or maybe you felt your 45 minute appointment was never really enough time to have a heart to heart discussion about your dental concerns. This session will focus on some important apects that your dentist wish YOU were aware of and some questions that YOU should ask.
Led by Lori Wilson.
Tuesday 9:45 - Summer Dental Speciality Clinics
Learn how one Free Clinic has established specialty dental programs for endodontics, oral surgery, and dentures on a limited basis. Referrals to community resources had not been enough to meet the needs in these areas. The program also helps meet the needs of our local private dentists. One of these programs was initiated in 2008 and the other two were added in Summer 2009. It is intention that the programs will grow and expand in the next few months/years. Led by Bob Barlow
Tuesday 11:15 - Service Learning in Dental and Dental Hygiene Education Service-learning is known by many, widely varying definitions which take into consideration the reciprocal needs of the student and community, bridging academic theory with community service and instilling civic responsibility. Service combined with learning adds value to each and transforms both. Service-learning must be an academic activity: it can be course-based, competency-based, or a structured volunteer experience. In dental education the most obvious community locations are community health center dental clinics, hospital dental clinics, and private offices in areas designated as dental health professions shortage areas (DHPSA). Most importantly, service-learning occurs only when both the providers and the recipients of the service benefit from the activities.
Although service-learning is now a major national movement, it is still catching on as a new approach in education. Kim Isringhausen will provide a framework for service-learning in dental and dental hygiene education in which planning, implementation and evaluation can be built.
This will be a three-part session featuring the Appalachian College of Pharmacy, Radford University and Shenandoah University.
RU (click for presentation): Radford University's Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) Program in Counseling Psychology, has rural mental health as its primary emphasis. The Program includes four rural courses and rurality is infused into nearly all other courses as well. The presenter will discuss the development of the Program, the efforts to provide mental health services in rural areas, and plans for the future. James Werth will lead this section.
APC (click for presentation): Whitney Caudill will provide information about the Inspiration, History and Progress of the Appalachian College of Pharmacy.
Monday 11:00 - Pharmacy Resources
Free medicines are available through the pharmaceutical companies’ Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs), which may be accessed for individual prescriptions using The Pharmacy Connection (TPC) software or through a bulk replacement / Institutional PAP. Learn about the Virginia Health Care Foundation’s TPC software and its RxRelief Virginia initiative; and about Rx Partnership, Virginia’s innovative bulk replacement program. Find out how your organization can utilize these programs to the fullest, and bring your questions regarding medication access challenges. By Sarah Jane Stewart, VHCF Coordinator for RxRelief Virginia and Greater Williamsburg MAP and Amy Yarcich, Executive Director, Rx Partnership.
Click here for PAP presentation.
Click here for Rx Partnership presentation.
Tuesday 9:45 - Behavioral Health Integration
The provision of mental/behavioral health services for children and adolescents in the primary care setting is a volatile issue. This is one of several findings from an educational needs assessment of rural primary care providers focused on kid/teen mental/behavioral health.
The session will briefly examine the high costs to families and the Commonwealth due to limited access to mental/behavioral health care as well as:
- The process and scope of the educational needs assessment
- Assessment outcomes—what providers see as their learning/educational needs
- Strategies with potential to meet provider educational needs.
This program is a result of a Virginia Department of Health RFP which allowed four Area Health Education Centers to focus on provider learning needs. Session attendees will be encouraged to participate and contribute their ideas during the session. Luanne Osborne, John Young, Wayne Terry, Susan Alford & Karen Purcell will speak about their projects.
Tuesday 11:15 - Telepsychiatry: The University of Virginia and Clinch River Health Services Partnership
This session will discuss the use of telemedicine by the University of Virginia Department of Psychiatry to provide clinical care to primary care agency patients in Southwest Virginia. Consultation and collaborative models of care will be presented, along with a discussion of the strengths and challenges of this technology for treatment of mental health problems. Since 2007, UVA and Clinch River Health Services have contracted to provide psychiatric evaluation and medication management for Dungannon patients. The psychiatric and primary care providers will present a case study illustrating the application of the collaborative model, and discuss the emerging questions related to expansion of this important access to care for rural Virginians. Presentation will be made by
Richard L. Merkel Jr., M.D., PhD,
Gary Michael MD,
Juliana Frosch, PMHNP-BC and
Karen Odle, LPC.
Monday 9:15 - Churches as Primary Partners in Community Health
In many communities churches are a primary partner in community health. By uniting the best practices of public health and congregational-based principles emphasizing wellness, wholeness, prevention, and education, churches can influence people's values and life choices, and enable them to assume responsibility for their own health. A survey conducted by the Congregational Health ReSource, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Health Office of Minority Health and Public Health Policy, will report the findings from four rural communities that participated in a pilot congregational health assessment.
Many churches with health ministries understand the concept of congregational health. For those churches that don't already have health ministries, this concept provides a way of improving the health of church members without increasing the existing workload of leadership. When introduced to the idea of congregational health, most churches are eager to begin developing health ministries. How can we leverage churches as a force multiplier to decrease gaps in health equity, develop partnerships, and educate the public? Let's start the discussion! Rev. Andrea Lomboy will lead this session.
Monday 11:00 - Expanding the Margins: A New Paradigm for Successfully Doing More with Less Vulnerable and hidden populations look to inclusive networks to offer solutions for their unmet needs. Building successful collaborative relationships with resources that already exist in a community, increases capacity for the community and honors what members of the community have to offer toward reversing their own negative health outcomes. Factors determining whether or not people will be healthy many times have to do with the strength and inclusiveness of collaborative networks around them. Figuring out the resources available to a population and then bringing those resources together into a collaborative effort can bring healing to the body and the spirit of those touched by the unity of such an effort.
Susan Triggs will discuss how the Congregational Health Assessments were a means used to begin the process for meeting these unmet needs. What are the next steps for expanding the margins? The current state of the economy in the Commonwealth of Virginia demands the creation of efficient, effective ways to do business while accomplishing more with less. Come and learn new methods of tapping into the resources available in rural communities.
Tuesday 9:45 - Advocacy Guidelines for 501(c)3 Organizations
Our featured speaker Alan Morgan will present this session to help employees and board members of non-profit organizations understand the 'do-s' and 'don't-s' of advocacy.
Tuesday 11:15 - Successful Legislative Advocacy
Featured speaker Alan Morgan will lead this interactive session which will provide techniques for reaching out to elected officials and their staff members.
Hospital Tour (CANCELLED)
Bath Community Hospital has served Bath County since 1925. The facility has federal status as a "Critical Access Hospital". You are welcome to visit the facility any time between 2:30-4:30pm.
Free Clinic Tour
The Alleghany Highlands Free Clinic is located in Low Moor, a small community located between Covington and Clifton Forge. The Clinic consists of three exam rooms, a small sample room, and offices upstairs. While the Clinic does not own the building (that also houses the post office) it is hoped that a permenant facility will be purchased in the near future. You are welcome to visit the clinic any time between 2:30-4:30pm.
Nurse Practitioners Roundtable
Roundtables are offered twice a year by the Virginia Health Care Foundation. NP Roundtables provide NPs and Physician Assistants working and volunteering in free clinics with an opportunity to discuss topics that are relevant to their work; and share tools, tips, and resources with their peers.
Click here to learn more about Nurse Practitioner Roundtables or access resources from past roundtables. If you are interested in participating in this roundtable session please contact: Amanda Farnum, VHCF Program Officer - 804-828-5804.
Unveiling of the Rural Health Data Portal
A portion of the Virginia State Rural Health Plan dealt with defining “rural” and developing a database that could be used for such things as identifying disparities between urban and rural settings and study rural health trends. One of the goals of the Rural Health Data Council was to develop a web-based data portal to allow the public access to this data. Thanks to initial funding VDH Office of Minority Health and Public Health Policy, the data portal has become a reality. This data portal will be introduced to the public for the first time at the conference. Come see how to use the portal and the data and mapping capabilities available.
An introduction to VRHA and the Virginia Rural Health Plan.
An introduction to VAFC, its members and the services they provide.
Santos Dance
Lee and Peggy Santos of Santos Dance will be leading us (and teaching us!) in some of Virginia's classic line dances such as Square Dancing and the Virginia Reel. Grab your colleagues and join the Hoe Down!
