This program is targeted toward community health workers, health educators, social workers, nurses, school health, and mental health providers. Topics include defining health literacy, best practices, critical features in educational materials and more.

The program is available through virtual meetings via Zoom every other Thursday 1:30 p.m. beginning April 15.

A series of virtual workshops from Hernando and Pasco SEN Taskforces is occurring Fridays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on April 9, 16, 23 and 30. The event is designed for medical, healthcare and hospital professionals, social and behavioral health workers, nonprofits, treatment providers, law enforcement officers, legal professionals, prevention coalitions and experts, early learning coalitions, state agencies and all others involved in caring for women of child bearing age, addiction and substance exposed newborns. CEUS are available to all attendees.

Topics include: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Improving Outcomes for Substance Exposed Infants and Treating Substance Use Disorders in Pregnancy.

The event is sponsored by WellFlorida Council, Central Healthy Start and other Florida community partners.

Transparency in Health Care – What the Doctor Ordered is the title of the keynote address by speaker Marty Makary, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Other topics include Advancing Payment Reform in Florida. This free conference takes place on Tuesday, April 13 from 8:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

This presentation by Jerri Regan, MPS, MS, RN provides an overview of MIH-CP programs that draw heavily from interview surveys of Florida EMS agencies operating MIH-CP programs. MIH-CP programs expand the scope of paramedics to provide services such as chronic disease education and monitoring, health assessments, hospital discharge follow-up care, vaccinations and more. These programs increase access to primary care for medically underserved populations, such as rural communities, reduce overcrowding in EDs, lower hospital admissions and improve continuity in care.

Rural Health Partnership and Suwannee River AHEC present this FREE High Performance CPR Training on March 29 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Gainesville.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, President Biden executed a special enrollment period from February 15 to May 15 for individuals and families to enroll in the Health Insurance Marketplace. Suwannee River AHEC’s Navigators are available to assist with enrollment at 386-230-9400. They assist consumers with confidential telephone and virtual online enrollment service and provide public education and outreach activities at locations throughout the region.