Rural Health Workforce Conference Agenda
CME Credits Available!
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The Missouri Rural Health Association (MRHA), in partnership with Missouri University School of Medicine and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), will host the Rural Health Workforce Conference Thursday, April 22 through Saturday, April 24, 2021.
Due to COVID-19 concerns, the conference will no longer be held in-person and will instead be entirely virtual. Participants are encouraged to safely attend from home. Updates will continue to be provided if more changes occur.
Tickets are $50 and refunds are not available. Links to access the virtual conference will be sent out prior to the event.
Attendees must be registered by April 16.
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Thursday, April 22 (Day 1) |
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5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Pre-Conference: Keynote Speaker
“Community Engagement” - John Doolittle, President - Mosaic Medical Center Albany
We “Get To” Serve Our Communities
Life as a rural health care professional is a calling that is not for the faint of heart, but the personal and professional rewards it offers are tremendously rich and satisfying. In this session, we’ll share stories about the particular opportunities afforded to rural caregivers and honor their incredible successes.
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6 p.m. THURSDAY CONFERENCE ADJOURNS |
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8:50 a.m. – 9 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions - MRHA Staff
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9 a.m. – 10 a.m.
General Session:
“NextGen and Impacts on Rural Health”
Mun Y. Choi, President, University of Missouri
President Choi will address the University of Missouri’s extensive efforts to improve access to health care in rural areas, including the impact and wide reach of the university’s NextGen Precision Health initiative.
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10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
General Session:
"Can Community Characteristics Promote Rural Provider Retention? Insights from Over 900 Rural Providers."
Maria Kuhns, Master's Student - Agricultural And Applied Economics - University Of Missouri
To improve understanding about how rural community assets and investments affect retention of health care providers, over 900 rural health care providers in nine states participated in a 2014 federal survey. MU graduate student Maria Kuhns has worked with university faculty and U.S. Department of Agriculture economists to analyze the results. Ms. Kuhns will share her findings regarding personal, workplace, and community attributes that may motivate or dissuade health care providers’ likelihood to consider leaving their community and place of work. She will discuss potential implications for Missouri’s rural healthcare workforce.
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11 a.m. – 12 p.m. • BREAKOUT SESSION I
Recruitment and Retention
Burnout/Compassion Fatigue - Dr. Keithahn & Dr. Craig Rooney - University of Missouri
Dr. Stephen Keithahn and Dr. Rooney will discuss the current clinician burnout crisis and how it has been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. They will review professional literature and explain the moral, business, and quality of care arguments for optimizing the workplace and taking better care of struggling clinicians. They will describe some of the strategies and successes within their healthcare system and discuss stressors and potential strategies specific to rural health care.
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement - Kristi Davis - Department of Economic Development, Jill Williams - MO Hospital Association and Sara Murphy - Department of Mental Health
"Strategies to Recruit and Retain Healthcare Professionals"
There has long been a shortage of healthcare professionals, especially in many rural areas, but the strain has been amplified due to the current pandemic. During this session, you will learn some of the strategies the state has taken to assist with the recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals, as well as hear from the Missouri Hospital Association and the collaborative partnerships that are guiding their regional Health Career Pathways Initiative.
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Emerging Solutions
Workforce Data Project - Tracy Greever-Rice - University of Missouri
This presentation will provide an update on the activities of the Missouri Health Care Workforce project at the University of Missouri Office of Health,
Outreach, Policy and Education. The Missouri Health Care Workforce project partners with stakeholders and policymakers to understand trends in the
health care workforce including analysis of current and anticipated shortages and maldistribution by profession. The work of this project includes implementation and analysis of HRSA minimum data set surveys as well as issue-specific policy analysis, and a public-facing web app with tools and data for users to visualize the Missouri workforce by profession, geography, population health, and health care facilities and resources.
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Mental Health
Rural Community Opioid Response Programs - Shawn Hayden - CoxHealth; Felisha Richards - Your Community Health Center
The session will focus on lessons learned through CoxHealth's HRSA funded Rural Community Opioid Response Program, and our efforts to expand access to medication for opioid use disorder.
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1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. • BREAKOUT SESSION II |
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Recruitment and Retention
Recruitment Practices and Resources - Joni Adamson - Missouri Primary Care Association
"Recruiting Health Professionals: Is it an Art or a Science?"
Recruiting health professionals can take an enormous amount of time and effort. Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don’t. Should your processes be more creative or more strategic? We will look at the most common challenges and barriers to recruiting health professionals and consider successful approaches that work. This session is seasoned with examples and tools for employers as well as current and future health professionals.
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Community Engagement
Mental Health in the Rural Community: A Pharmacist’s Role - Jason Meadows - Ag State of Mind
Pharmacists are often among the most accessible health care providers in rural areas. However, pharmacists often move to rural areas from more urban-like settings. It is important for pharmacists to first understand rural culture. Once this is obtained, they can begin to recognize the stress they see in their patient population.
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Emerging Solutions
Technology In Healthcare – John Parks; Dr. Brian Skow - Avera eCare
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Healthcare facilities of all sizes can all agree that COVID-19 has been very
disruptive and forced organizations to rethink delivery of care while limiting
exposure for their patients and staff. Thanks to advancements in technology and connectivity, the adoption of telehealth within the care continuum is growing, bringing health care close to home for those who need it most.
Avera eCARE has been delivering telehealth services to its rural partner
facilities for over 25 years. We are currently connected to over 500 clinical sites in 32 states, and have been working with partners across the United States to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As facilities deal with a “new normal”, it’s important to recognize that issues
like burnout, staffing challenges, and financial uncertainty all existed before
the pandemic and need to be addressed for even more aggressively moving forward.
Telehealth is poised as one solution. In this session, you will hear
stories about how telemedicine services stood tall and supported facilities in response to the pandemic and how these services can assist with challenges that will remain in the future.
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Mental Health
Missouri Child Psychiatry Access Project (MO- CPAP) - Dr. Young Walker & Wendy Ell - University of Missouri
Hello? Is it Support You’re Looking For? : How the Missouri Child
Psychiatry Access Project is Helping Pediatric Primary Care Providers
through Telephonic Consultations
As many as 25 percent of the nation's youth suffer from clinically significant
behavioral health problems, with thousands of children and adolescents
remaining untreated or experiencing significant delays before beginning
treatment. While 75 percent or more youth first seek care from a primary care
provider (PCP), clinicians face a tremendous shortage of resources and
supports in caring for their patients with behavioral health needs. The Missouri
Child Psychiatry Access Project (MO-CPAP) builds capacity within primary care settings to treat and manage behavioral health needs for children and
adolescents. Through access to child psychiatry consultations, ongoing
educational opportunities, and follow up coordination to connect patients with
community-based behavioral health services, enrolled PCPs receive support
treating mental health disorders in their pediatric populations.
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3 p.m. – 4 p.m. • BREAKOUT SESSION III |
Recruitment and Retention
Day in the Life of Rural Family Physician - Dr. Heather Martin
This session will go over what is beyond the normal 8-5 for a rural physician. What to expect: when to smile and figure it out, when to refer and how to call for help.
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Community Engagement
Chadwick Higgins - University of Missouri
This presentation will explore the mission of MU Extension and Engagement and how this mission intersects with rural health to improve lives and to help build thriving communities in Missouri.
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Emerging Solutions
Show-Me ECHO - Rachel Mutrux; Karen Edison - University of Missouri
This session will go over the background and growth of the Missouri Telehealth Network and Show-Me ECHO program. They will discuss how Show-Me ECHO provides support and mentoring for Missouri’s rural healthcare workforce, improves healthcare outcomes, and has been adapted to address the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Mental Health
Suicide Prevention – Ashlee Jenkins - Department of Mental Health; Nicole Lee - Missouri Coalition
Suicide is a serious public health issue. A recent survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that in the last week of June this year, 41% of adults in the United States had experienced at least one mental health problem, including symptoms of anxiety or depression. Additionally, about 11% of adults and 25% of 18- to 24-year-olds said they seriously considered suicide.
Suicide is preventable and everyone has a role to play, but many do not feel they have enough information to act. This presentation will provide you with some simple ways to help someone who is struggling whether it be a fellow team member or a client you are working with. National and state suicide statistics and resources will be provided along with current statewide efforts and how you can get involved.
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4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
COVID-19 and the Impact on Rural Communities - Toniann Richard-Health Care Collaborative of Rural Missouri; Dana Dahl-Missouri Hospital Association; Dr. Laura Morris & Lynelle Phillips-University of Missouri
Listen and join the conversation as our panel reflects on how COVID-19 has impacted the rural communities and how our health care providers were able to respond to the global pandemic. The participants will be able to identify some best practices that emerged from the response as well as areas for improvement to pandemic response.
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5 p.m. FRIDAY CONFERENCE ADJOURNS
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Saturday, April 24 (Day 3) |
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9 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Opening Session
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"Left Out or Roped In?: Rural America's Journey Toward Health Equity
Ben Anderson, Vice President
Rural Health and Hospital - Colorado Hospital Association
As health equity has risen to the center of the national conversation over the past few decades, it has largely – whether intentionally or unintentionally – excluded rural America. Meanwhile, health care access in rural communities has significantly declined, leading to some of the worst health outcomes in the United States. Through a series of true and inspiring stories, Benjamin Anderson humanizes the glaring disparities that exist between rural and urban communities and describes the structural issues that perpetuate them. He offers hopeful and practical tools that empower leaders to be their own best advocates through the hard work and ingenuity that define the backbone of America.
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10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
General Session:
"Policies Affecting Rural Health Care"
Regulatory Q&A - Daniel Landon - Missouri Hospital Association; Sheldon Weisgrau – Missouri Foundation for Health
Policies and regulations influence how healthcare is provided. Listen and join in conversation about how state and federal policies and regulations are affecting rural healthcare. Participants will be able to identify what changes have been made over the past year and where healthcare may be moving. They will also be able to identify areas for future advocating to help influence change.
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11 a.m. – 12 p.m. • BREAKOUT SESSION IV |
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Recruitment and Retention
Panel Session - Student & Physician Q&A
Listen and join in the discussion between medical students and physicians about what it is like to study and work in rural healthcare settings. What motivates them to want to live and work in the rural communities of Missouri.
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Community Engagement
Care Coordination - Lori Popejoy
University of Missouri
In this session we will discuss the different forms of care coordination available and used across settings and discuss strategies that individuals (clients and clinicians) can use to manage communication between different service entities. Examples from the SNF to Home study, and the Missouri Quality Initiative (MOQI) initiative will be used to demonstrate practical application of improvements to health systems.
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Emerging Solutions
Transportation Solutions - Health Tran - Mary Gordon – Missouri Rural Health Association
HealthTran was designed to address rural transportation limitations and barriers, with a primary focus on health and social determinants of health that affect rural Missourians and their communities. In finding a sustainable solution, with flexibility to meet the needs and barriers of the unique Missouri landscape, HealthTran developed a multifaceted approach that includes:
- Strengthening health care access through collaboration, Mobility Management, advocacy, and sustainability
- Creating a one-stop Ride Scheduling Platform to link all local transit options for simple, quick, and effective ride scheduling, thus reducing stress for workers and cancellations and no-shows for healthcare providers
- Enhancing local and new transportation options with the MHRA Volunteer Driver Program
- Working with nontraditional forms of transportation by utilizing available, unused vehicles dedicated to community transport
- Sharing information on government-funded programs and other resources to enhance transportation options
Today’s session will provide an overview of the program, focus on the economic benefits transportation brings to a community and offer participants the opportunity to ask questions and interact with the HealthTran staff.
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Mental Health
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) - Megan Mabe - Your Community Health Center
This session will cover how MAT has been implemented in a rural healthcare setting. Learn how one facility has implemented MAT to better serve their patients and how to overcome barriers. Listen to the impact it has had on their community.
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12 p.m. CONFERENCE ADJOURNS |
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Connect with MRHA and HealthTran
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