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Episode 12: January 2024
Network-Wide CRN User News
Featured Event
QHN Hot Topics: The latest from CRN
Thursday, January 20th, 2024 | 12:15-1:15 pm
Tess McInnis will take you through an exciting discussion on the latest CRN enhancements, our impressive accomplishments in 2023, and our vision for where we want to go in 2024!
New 2024 Training Schedule Released
Healthier Together Summit
Join us for a day of fantastic speakers and connecting for better health.
In 2024, QHN will celebrate 20 years of community collaboration by connecting and innovating healthcare, behavioral, and social organizations to provide crucial information that ensures people get the care and services they need quickly and efficiently.
We are looking forward to reuniting to ignite creativity and exploration, foster lively discussions that advance healthcare and address the social determinants of health, and share some laughter and successes.
We will hear from industry leaders like Kim Bimestefer (HCPF) and Lisa Bari (Civitas), as well as Craig Zablocki, who will guide us through what it means to transform through vulnerability and authenticity. There will also be a robust resource fair – an opportunity for you to highlight your good work and see the incredible resources that are offered in western Colorado – along with several thought-provoking Hot Topics sessions.
SAVE THE DATE! Thursday, April 25th, 2024. Registration opens on January 25th.
There will be no CRN April Collaborative. Instead, please join us for the Healthier Together Summit. Scholarships and complimentary tickets are available for CRN Network Partners and other non-profit organizations. You will also have the opportunity to bring a booth to the Summit’s resource fair.
Contact Charity for more info: cmeinhart@qualityhealthnetwork.org
Utilization
Network-Wide Utilization Stats
(to see region-specific numbers, scroll to the bottom)
Regional News
West Mountain News
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in West Mountain!
AeroCare
AdaptHealth is dedicated to providing excellent services to our patients while ensuring the quality and professionalism they deserve. We provide genuine care and the most up-to-date, quality medical products available for the patients we serve. We empower patients to live their best lives by providing comprehensive products, services, and supplies.
Regions Served: West Mountain, Delta, Montrose, Mesa, Southwest, West Mountain
CRN Usage: Receives Referrals
High Mountain Taxi
High Mountain Taxi provides local taxi service in Aspen/Snowmass and Vail Colorado 7 days a week, 365 days per year. Our friendly drivers are knowledgeable of our mountain towns and are eager to provide you with excellent service in our 5-passenger mini vans.
Regions Served: West Mountain
CRN Usage: Accepting electronic referrals
Mesa County News
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in Mesa County!
AeroCare
AdaptHealth is dedicated to providing excellent services to our patients while ensuring the quality and professionalism they deserve. We provide genuine care and the most up-to-date, quality medical products available for the patients we serve. We empower patients to live their best lives by providing comprehensive products, services, and supplies.
Regions Served: West Mountain, Delta, Montrose, Mesa, Southwest, West Mountain
CRN Usage: Receives Referrals
Parent and Family Wellness Center
The Parent and Family Wellness Center provides psychotherapy and medication evaluation and management. While we do have an office in Boulder, our practice serves individuals, couples, and families throughout Colorado through telehealth. Our specialty is perinatal mental wellness, but we work with a wide array of clients who fall well outside that category (including men). We offer couples and individual counseling, parent-child dyadic therapy (in-person only), and we work with teens.
To the best of our abilities, we are committed to making high-quality mental health care accessible to all. We have a Spanish-speaking bi-cultural clinician on staff. In some counties, we partner with grant agencies to provide vouchers for free care to those who are uninsured or underinsured.
We offer free perinatal wellness check-ins, which can be helpful for those who are hesitant about receiving mental health support. We also offer monthly free workshops on PMAD prevention.
Regions Served: All
CRN Use: Accepting and sending referrals, joining care teams
Delta/ Montrose/ Gunnison News
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Welcome Our New CRN Partners in Montrose/Delta/Gunnison!
AeroCare
AdaptHealth is dedicated to providing excellent services to our patients while ensuring the quality and professionalism they deserve. We provide genuine care and the most up-to-date, quality medical products available for the patients we serve. We empower patients to live their best lives by providing comprehensive products, services, and supplies.
Regions Served: West Mountain, Delta, Montrose, Mesa, Southwest, West Mountain
CRN Usage: Receives Referrals
Parent and Family Wellness Center
The Parent and Family Wellness Center provides psychotherapy and medication evaluation and management. While we do have an office in Boulder, our practice serves individuals, couples, and families throughout Colorado through telehealth. Our specialty is perinatal mental wellness, but we work with a wide array of clients who fall well outside that category (including men). We offer couples and individual counseling, parent-child dyadic therapy (in-person only), and we work with teens.
To the best of our abilities, we are committed to making high-quality mental health care accessible to all. We have a Spanish-speaking bi-cultural clinician on staff. In some counties, we partner with grant agencies to provide vouchers for free care to those who are uninsured or underinsured.
We offer free perinatal wellness check-ins, which can be helpful for those who are hesitant about receiving mental health support. We also offer monthly free workshops on PMAD prevention.
Regions Served: All
CRN Use: Accepting and sending referrals, joining care teams
Helpful Resources for January 2024
from the Colorado Regional Health Connector Program
Funding Opportunities –
- Funding (no deadline) – Building and Bridging Connections Funding
- Loans (no deadline noted) – Rural Community Facility Loans
- Funding (open for non-binding letters of intent) – Making Care Primary Model
- Funding (due 1/30) – Environmental Justice Community Innovator Challenge
- Funding (extended through May 31, 2024) – COVID-19 Health Equity and Immunization Funding Opportunity
- Funding (due 1/31) – Health Disparities and Community Grant Program. The three-year grant cycle will fund projects to improve social infrastructure and health outcomes that eventually reduce health inequities and disparities. Funds will support projects that create and launch a foundation for making changes to public, systems-level, and organizational policies, practices, rules, laws, and regulations that influence the health of underrepresented communities. Funded categories that build a foundation to implement systems and policy change include creating strategic plans, building staff and volunteer capacity, providing technical assistance, and providing operational support
Webinars, Trainings & Conferences
- HB1302 (Behavioral Health Integration) Practice Learning Community Topic – BHI Framework Review and Introduction to Trauma Informed Care. Speakers – Stephanie Gold, MD; Marisa Kostiuk, PhD. Wednesday, January 24th, 2023, 12pm to 1pm. Virtual Meeting Link: JOIN
- Engaging the Wisdom of Community (starts January 26th) – This micro-course consists of three 2-hour live sessions designed for participants to expand their understanding and grow their skills in community engagement mindsets and approaches. With a focus on unearthing the wisdom and lived experience of the participants in the room, the micro-courses utilize the curriculum development model of “Understanding by Design” to support a dynamic and emergent learning container. Participants will receive a curated list of resources to support ongoing learning in each topic area. This training is perfect for community health workers, public health professionals, students, educators, and anyone with an interest in strengthening your authentic connection and work with your community
- Facilitation Foundations – 10-week course that uses highly interactive activities to build participants’ capacity to facilitate meetings and coalitions that are efficient, effective, and lead to results. Participants learn how to anticipate, prevent and intervene in difficult situations to keep the group from derailing and halting progress and explore structured strategies they can use to generate ideas, evaluate and select ideas, and make a group decision.
- Training – Age-Friendly Public Health Systems (AFPHS) Initiative offers an “AFPHS Champion” designation to empower and encourage more leaders to champion healthy aging. This recognition honors public health professionals who are committed to expanding their knowledge about healthy aging and want to lead their departments and organizations in becoming age-friendly. Anyone can become a Champion! Reaching this status is simple: individuals who attend or view at least six AFPHS monthly trainings will be designated as AFPHS Champions. Visit the AFPHS Recognition Program page for more information.
- The Naloxone Project (TNP) Has Expanded into Health Clinics! In an effort to get naloxone access to every community in Colorado, The Naloxone Project (TNP) has expanded into health clinics. After working with 108 Emergency Departments and 50 Labor & Delivery rooms across the state, TNP received requests from clinics to receive naloxone for patients who are uninsured, underinsured, have poor access to health care, and patients at risk of opioid overdose. In March 2023, TNP received 6,000 doses of Narcan through the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s (CDPHE) Naloxone Bulk Fund. Since March, 5,442 of the 6,000 doses have been distributed to 53 clinics across Colorado. A diverse group of clinics have enrolled; primary care, OB/GYN, behavioral health, dental, and orthopedics. TNP is honored to support these clinics in distributing this life-saving drug to their communities. The goal is to enroll 45-50 more clinics in the program with this second donation of naloxone. If your clinic is interested in receiving free naloxone for your patients, please respond to this survey. If you have any questions, please contact our outpatient project manager, Ms. Kristen Ashworth, at kristen@naloxoneproject.com