Telehealth Makes Sense!
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The General Assembly of the State of Colorado  URGES 
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ALL ENTITIES
to explore  potential uses of telehealth in early detection and intervention of chronic disease, and  the delivery of cost-effective health care services,
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HOME CARE PROVIDERS
to seek funding options to extend their use of telehealth,
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FUNDING  AGENTS 
 to support research about the use of telehealth care technology and its effectiveness in delivering quality health care, especially to patients in rural or remote areas.- - - -
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Click here for a complete copy of SJR 04-038

Grand Junction, Colorado: Karen L. Probert, MS, RD, a project grant planning and implementation consultant from Paonia, Colorado, was named Project Management Consultant for HCAC's West Slope Forum Telehealth Project. The announcement was made by Jill Elliott, Director of Rocky Mountain Health Plans Home Health and Vice President of HCAC, who was serving as selection committee chair of the HCAC Telehealth Project Steering Committee.

The project is to focus on initiating a telehealth  approach to chronic heart failure (CHF). Working with a group of Grand Junction cardiologists, West Slope home care agencies will participate in forming a health care cooperative, initiating telehealth systems, evaluating the effectiveness of those systems and exploring other disease states that can be managed by similar methods. It is the objective of the project to provide data aimed at influencing third-party payers to reimburse for telehealth services as a cost effective method of treatment.

Probert, a graduate of Colorado State University (BS-Human Nutrition and Dietetics) and Tufts University (MS-Nutrition), has an extensive background in the management of and planning for non-profit, organizations and community service projects, many of which involved health related fields. Her fund raising activities have resulted in approximately $2 million involving six separate projects.

She is a writer, public speaker and educator as well as a planner and project manager. She will operate from her office in Paonia. She can be reached at: Karen L. Probert, 791 Barrow Mesa Road, Hotchkiss, CO 81419,Telephone: 970-872-4617.

Project steering committee members are: Sue Birch, Northwest Colorado VNA, Steamboat Springs, HCAC President; Erin Denholm, Centura Health at Home, Denver, HCAC Immediate Past President; Sue Brown, Grand Junction, HCAC Secretary; Jill Elliott, Rocky Mountain Health Plans Home Health, Grand Junction, HCAC Vice President, and Fred Caruso, HCAC Staff Consultant, Centennial.

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