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YOU GOT THIS! You're never alone. Clinics Can Help stands ready to assist those in need, offering a wide range of medical equipment from wheelchairs to shower chairs and more. If we don't have it, we'll find it for you. Let's navigate this journey together. #ClinicsCanHelp #CommunitySupport #MedicalAssistance #YoureNotAlone #WestPalmBeach #NonProfit #GoodCause

Yes, that's right. Simple access to healthcare is the primary factor that negatively affects the health of the 20% of Americans who live in rural areas. In Montana, that number is more like 45%. And, with rural hospitals and clinics closing, consolidating, or reducing hours, things aren't looking too great for rural America. But, for providers who've partnered with Bannack, their futures are looking brighter. Success stories include: Ruby Valley Medical Center (Sheridan, MT): secured $3M for a new hospital DANIELS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (Scobey, MT): raising $3M for a new medical center Sidney Health Center (Sidney, MT): early stages of leadership phase Bridgercare: raising $300,000 for rural women's health clinics across Montana #nonprofit #philanthropy #rural #healthcare #ruralhealthcare #hospital

One million, one hundred thousand dollars. A big, hairy, audacious, and achieved goal 🎊 Over the last two years, leading our Flying Doctor Day campaign has been a testament to the hard work of our team coming together to work to their strengths. After managing six giving days across five different organisations, I know that a giving day regardless of its size has the same principles. It is about inspiring the community and matched giving partners to make an even bigger impact. Bringing individuals, corporates, major donors, communities, businesses and trusts on a shared journey. The reason I love these campaigns is because everyone can feel like the are changing the world together. https://lnkd.in/gGMvEUJT

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📣 Help communities have a voice with an EOFY donation! 📆 It's the end of the financial year and your generosity can make a real difference. Every donation to HCNSW over $2 is tax deductible. Your donation ensures that we can continue to provide training, education and support to patients, families and carers who want to make a difference. We will use donations to: 🎓 Pay for health consumer representative training for health consumers who want to do the training but can’t secure training funding from the organisation they are representing at 🧳 Pay conference fees and travel and accommodations costs for health consumer representatives to attend crucial conferences where the voices of health consumers should be heard but aren’t 📢 Run campaigns and projects of high importance to health consumers, but not so important to health services and providers (our main funders) 🤝 Support small and emerging health consumer groups to build their groups and run them. Donate now ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gXP2tiit

Conway Regional Health System Chief Development Officer, Maegan Dyson, MBA, CFRE recently shared her thoughts on Givzey and Smart Gift Agreements to close gifts faster. Thank you Maegan! "Givzey’s Smart Gift Agreements allow us to solicit and close gifts in a single day. Givzey also gives me peace of mind because I know that all gifts are documented exactly as we need and adhere to both internal policies and accounting standards." #IntelligentGiftDocumentationManagement #nptech #fundraising #healthcarefundraising #healthcare #SmartGiftAgreements #nonprofitleadership

Rural Referral Centers Make My Head Explode, Too, Adam Fein I feel Adam’s pain. You can’t make this stuff up. #340b discounts go to “rural referral centers”, but RRCs don’t actually have to be located in “rural” counties—or receive any significant referrals from rural areas. Adam points out the absurdity of this by noting that Brigham&Women’s, Boston’s grand dame, had a whopping “97% of 2021 patients resid[ing] in urban areas”—I’ll just also add that it had $18.8 billion in revenues in 2023. In life, you get what you pay for. In the law, you get what you set as the standard. The Standard: The relevant regulation assesses referrals by analyzing the % of “Medicare patients…referred from other hospitals or from physicians not on…staff” and the % of the “hospital's Medicare patients [who] live more than 25 miles from the hospital”. Can you see the problem? It’s right there—hard-wired into the “Rural” Referral Center definition. The regulatory standard just requires referrals. It doesn’t require ANY referrals FROM a RURAL area. Worse yet is the idea of judging relevant referrals based on a 25 mile radius. The Medicare definition of ANY hospital’s CORE service area for determining provider-based status is 35 miles. So, in other words, a “rural” referral center that is actually an urban facility can meet the “rural” referral criteria by securing ALL of its referrals from WITHIN its OWN service area. Even More Absurd: The same hospital can SIMULTANEOUSLY be a RRC for 340B purposes and an URBAN hospital for Medicare wage index purposes. Because THAT makes sense. Reasons for Concern: And it’s not just Brigham, of course. The BRG study ihughlights that there was about an 80% increase in RRC 340B purchases, each year, from the end of 2017 to 2022. That rate of growth was TWICE the already outrageous rate of growth of the program as a whole. So, here’s a novel idea, how about we rewrite the RRC definition to actually require a substantial number of referrals from the 80% of the US actually classified as being “rural”? Or is that too rational for this program? #340b #ruralheathcare #rrc Berkeley Research Group Brigham and Women's Hospital

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