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National Rural Health Day. (NOTE: INSERT YOUR facility/community NAME HERE). About Us. (Note: Insert a few bullets about your health care facility and what you do here). National Rural Health Day.
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National Rural Health Day (NOTE: INSERT YOUR facility/community NAME HERE)
About Us • (Note: Insert a few bullets about your health care facility and what you do here)
National Rural Health Day • Officially Thursday, November 15 (National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health and others planning week of NRHD-related events ) • Created in 2011 to: • Tout the strengths of rural communities as places to live and work • Increase awareness of rural health-related issues • Promote the efforts of communities and their partners in addressing those issues
NRHD Logo – What It Represents • Colors/Upper-left Block – nature/outdoors, agriculture, recreational opportunities • Upper-right Block – family, community, heritage • Lower-left Block – partnerships/connections, working together to benefit the greater good • Lower-right Block – represents medical, health care
Available Resources • Key Messages: • Rural communities are wonderful places to live and work • Amazing things are happening in rural Missouri • Being a rural healthcare provider offers tremendous opportunities • Health care in rural Missouri is unique • National Rural Health Day “Themes” : • Welcome to Rural Missouri • Exploring the Issues Missouri faces • Doing More with Less • Provider Appreciation Day • Looking Toward the Future
Available Resources (cont.) • National Rural Health Day Logo • “Save the Date” Postcard • Gubernatorial Proclamation Template - Remove • “Letter to Legislator” Template • Media Release Template • National Rural Health Day PowerPoint Presentation
National Rural Health Day Website http://celebratepowerofrural.org
NOSORH Celebration Plans Remove this slide • National Rural Health Day “Kickoff Event” (Tentative)(November 13; National Press Club, Washington DC) • Daily National Rural Health Day Webinars (November 12-16) • NOSORH Leadership Institute • Open to emerging AND established rural health leaders • Workshops conducted mostly via webinar from January – October 2013; two face-to-face meetings: • May 7, 2013 (Louisville, KY) • October 2013 (Asheville, NC) • Up to ten scholarships available; nomination form available athttp://www.nosorh.org/events/files/LI_Nomination_Form_2012_FINAL.docx
Our Celebration Plans (Note: Insert a few bullets about your community/provider celebration plans here)
What Can You Do? • Put National Rural Health Day logo on your website • Put “community success stories” and provider appreciation stories on your website. • Seek gubernatorial/legislative proclamations Remove • Share the news – tell partners, media contacts, etc. • Send rural “community success stories” and photographs to at MO Department of Health and Senior Services, via email: Marie.Ballew@health.mo.gov • Tell us what you’re doing … or join us! • Celebrate!
THANK YOU! • Our Partners: • (Note: Insert your partners here) • Missouri Office of Primary Care and Rural Health
Need More Info? • Contact: • (Note: Insert your Name, Title contact info here) • Phone Number/email address • Marie Ballew, Rural Health Coordinator, State of Missouri • 573-526-2825/Marie.Ballew@health.mo.gov • Name, Title • Phone number/email address