Office of Rural Health and Primary Care

Thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors

The Minnesota Rural Health Conference “Leading CHANGE for Rural Health,” is June 28-29, 2010, in Duluth, Minnesota, at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center (DECC).

The Conference will take an in-depth look at federal & state health reform, Health Information Technology (HIT), quality, workforce and finance & reimbursement. Monday will focus specifically on Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), with representatives from Minnesota’s 79 CAHs and other CAH stakeholders.

We anticipate over 300 participants including:

Rural hospital, long term care, rural health clinic and community-based services administrations, staff and volunteers
Rural health professionals such as physicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses, allied health professionals and educators, rural dentists and pharmacists
Rural Health Advisory Committee (RHAC) members
State legislators and county commissioners
State and local public health staff
Health plan representatives
Policy analysts, researchers and students interested in rural health issues
Educators
Community leaders
Other partners in rural communities.

Hosted by:

SPONSORS
			Availity, LLC

			Center for Healthcare Innovation College of St. Scholastica

			Communications Mid-America (CMA)

			Enventis

			Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

			Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota

			Sanford Health

			UCare

EXHIBITORS

			Adkisson Consultants

			AgStar Financial

			AMGEN

			Arrowhead Parish Nurse Peer Group

			ASI Signage Innovations

			Care Profiler

			The College of St. Scholastica

			Centra Health System-Recovery Plus

			Central Minnesota Diagnostic, Inc.

			Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

			Clarity Group Inc.

			CM Information Specialties

			Community Health Information Collaborative

			CPSI

			CSD of Minnesota

			DSGW Architects

			eDocument Resources

			Eide Bailly, LLP

			EMC/Emergent Networks

			Essentia Institute of Rural Health

			Evercare

			Glaxo Smith Kline Vaccines

			Healthcare Environmental Services, Inc.

			Healthcare Fiscal Management, Inc.

			Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.

			Healthland

			Health Care Homes Program Minnesota Departments of Health and of Human Services

			HGA Architects & Engineers

			Hennepin Technical College

			Humana

			Indian Health Service

			InstyMeds

			InTouch Health

			Iron Mountain

			Kraus-Anderson Construction Company

			Lakewood Health System

			Larson Records Management

			Life Link III

			Medicare Diabetes Screening Project

			Meditech (Medical Information Technology, Inc.)

			Meridian Leasing Corporation

			MDH-Father's Adoption Registry

			MDH-HIV & STD Section

			MDH-Maternal and Child Health

			MDH-Office of State Registrar

			Minnesota Department of Human Services -Paternity Establishment

			Minnesota Health Information Exchange

			Minnesota HomeCare Association

			Minnesota Stroke Partnership

			MMIC Group

			MMIC Health IT

			Northeast Minnesota Area Health Education Center

			Northeast Minnesota Interprofessional Rural Health Network

			North Memorial Air Care

			Pfizer

			Pope Architects

			Prairie River Home Care, Inc.

			Press Gold Group

			ProAssurance Wisconsin Insurance Company

			RI Transcription Solutions

			SHRED-N-GO, Inc.

			SISU

			TimeLine Recruiting

			University of Minnesota, Health Sciences Libraries

			University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth

			University of Phoenix

			USDA Rural Development

			U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration

			Video Guidance

			VISTA Staffing Solutions

			Wellness Environments

			Yanik