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• East TN Regional Opioid Education Training

  • When
    July 30, 2019
  •  
    9:30 AM - 3:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    2135 N Charles G Seivers Blvd, Clinton, TN 37716

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  The Rural Health Association of TN (RHA of TN) and Tennessee Hospital Association (THA) are partnering to help educate small and rural hospitals and communities around the state about the opioid epidemic. Come be a part of this free event!

  Potential Outcomes will include:

  • Provide training for developing protocols and policies in emergency departments to guide referrals and linkages to care for persons who have experienced overdose.
  • Empower individuals to make informed decisions and reduce additional exposure to harm to include:
  • Inform and educate policy makers on the science and strategy of harm reduction by providing scientific evidence of impact and providing best practice components for Good Samaritan, naloxone and MAT initiatives.
  • Educate and engage harm reduction partners to deploy a variety of strategies (outreach, communication, connection to services, infectious disease reduction).
  • Support public awareness/campaign efforts to help individuals reduce risk-taking.
  • Support and scale up key interventions for hospitals, EDs, and other clinical care settings (e.g. education on new protocols, academic detailing on linkages to care, etc.
  • Develop rapid community outreach teams, including finding and training volunteers or staff focus in on high-impact areas, for post-overdose visits to victims, friends or family members

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  “This project is funded under a Grant Contract with the State of Tennessee.”

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• Middle TN Regional Opioid Education Training

  • When
    July 31, 2019
  •  
    9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    415 Harding Dr, Lebanon, TN

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  The Rural Health Association of TN (RHA of TN) and Tennessee Hospital Association (THA) are partnering to help educate small and rural hospitals and communities around the state about the opioid epidemic. Come be a part of this free event!

  Potential Outcomes will include:

  • Provide training for developing protocols and policies in emergency departments to guide referrals and linkages to care for persons who have experienced overdose.
  • Empower individuals to make informed decisions and reduce additional exposure to harm to include:
  • Inform and educate policy makers on the science and strategy of harm reduction by providing scientific evidence of impact and providing best practice components for Good Samaritan, naloxone and MAT initiatives.
  • Educate and engage harm reduction partners to deploy a variety of strategies (outreach, communication, connection to services, infectious disease reduction).
  • Support public awareness/campaign efforts to help individuals reduce risk-taking.
  • Support and scale up key interventions for hospitals, EDs, and other clinical care settings (e.g. education on new protocols, academic detailing on linkages to care, etc.
  • Develop rapid community outreach teams, including finding and training volunteers or staff focus in on high-impact areas, for post-overdose visits to victims, friends or family members

  Draft Agenda

  “This project is funded under a Grant Contract with the State of Tennessee.”

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• West TN Regional Opioid Education Training

  • When
    August 01, 2019
  •  
    9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    317 Denmark Jackson Rd Denmark, TN 38391

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  The Rural Health Association of TN (RHA of TN) and Tennessee Hospital Association (THA) are partnering to help educate small and rural hospitals and communities around the state about the opioid epidemic. Come be a part of this free event!

  Potential Outcomes will include:

  • Provide training for developing protocols and policies in emergency departments to guide referrals and linkages to care for persons who have experienced overdose.
  • Empower individuals to make informed decisions and reduce additional exposure to harm to include:
  • Inform and educate policy makers on the science and strategy of harm reduction by providing scientific evidence of impact and providing best practice components for Good Samaritan, naloxone and MAT initiatives.
  • Educate and engage harm reduction partners to deploy a variety of strategies (outreach, communication, connection to services, infectious disease reduction).
  • Support public awareness/campaign efforts to help individuals reduce risk-taking.
  • Support and scale up key interventions for hospitals, EDs, and other clinical care settings (e.g. education on new protocols, academic detailing on linkages to care, etc.
  • Develop rapid community outreach teams, including finding and training volunteers or staff focus in on high-impact areas, for post-overdose visits to victims, friends or family members

  Draft Agenda

  “This project is funded under a Grant Contract with the State of Tennessee.”

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• RHA of TN 25th Annual Conference

  • Start
    November 20, 2019
  •  
    7:30 AM (EST)
  • End
    November 22, 2019
  •  
    11:30 AM (EST)
  • Location
    Music Road Resort Hotel & Inn, Pigeon Forge, TN

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  Rural Health Association of TN 

  25th Annual Conference 

  The Rural Health Association of Tennessee (RHA of TN) Conference is seeking presenters for their annual event whose purpose is to educate participants about health concerns affecting rural Tennessee.

  The conference reaches a diverse audience, ranging from hospital administrators, coordinated school health personnel; public health workers and administrators; county executives; legislators; school health nurses; health professions students and faculty; physicians, nurses and other providers; health educators; county health council members; rural business leaders; rural citizens and other community leaders and policy makers.

  Interested in presenting?

  Please see the Call for Presentations, submit forms and cv/resume to rhat@rhat.org.

  *Both completed forms and cv/resume must be submitted for presentation to be considered.

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