Our Programs & Partnerships We are proud of the programs and partners that our organization has the honor of working with in order to create healthier, more informed communities. |
| Louisiana Rural Health Association, Provider To Provider Consultation Line, and Well - Ahead Louisiana are proud to partner to facilitate the Rural Maternal Health ECHO: Empowering Care, Strengthening Outcomes. The Rural Maternal Health ECHO is designed to increase the knowledge capacity of rural providers who support pregnant patients, thereby improving maternal and infant mortality outcomes for those receiving care in rural facilities. The vision of this program is to focus on skills and resources that primary care providers and other healthcare professionals can leverage to better manage and support pregnant patients in a rural primary care setting and create a group practice of learning to develop a team approach for caring for individuals. This series, designed for primary care providers in rural areas, will provide continuing education credits for physicians, nurses, and social workers. |
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EatMoveGrow is a federally funded grant program that offers a wide variety of engaging programs to children, families, community organizations, and schools in rural, underserved communities across Southeast Louisiana. Our primary mission is to close health gaps and create opportunities that promote stronger health environments for children. EMG is currently promoting a pilot program to create a partnership between rural health clinics and elementary school in rural parishes to increase resources and information sharing to both the schools and their families. The program is also partnering with Louisiana’s Office of Public Health’s Community HealthWays program to offer families assistance through their community health worker program. The EMG program is hoping to increase the awareness of resources within these rural communities by offering information to the schools and their families. To learn more about the EatMoveGrow program, you can visit them at www.eatmovegrow.us Also, If you are interested in scheduling a Mental Health First Aid training, our on-site staff member is offering both Adult and Youth Mental Health First Aid trainings to anyone who may be interested. For more information on this program, please see the info |
| Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program: Healthy Rural Hometown Initiative Louisiana Rural Health Association has partnered with Louisiana Tech, T-Cell Analytics, Gulf South Analytics, and Fragments to utilize six years of historical data from the Medicaid Office at the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) to identify rural health clinics that may benefit from support in implementation or expansion of a Chronic Care Management program. In addition to being provided free technical assistance, project participants will have access to a robust data dashboard to support effective CCM implementation and quality improvement. |
| Rural Health Care Coordination Program Louisiana Rural Health Association has partnered with Louisiana Department of Health CHWays Program, Opelousas General Hospital, Louisiana Tech, and PeLEX Health Information Exchange to develop a Rural Health Network to support leveraging of Health Information Exchange (HIE) engagement, Community Health Worker (CHW) engagement, and utilization of the Chronic Care Model (CCM) to build and maintain a strategy and framework to support better health outcomes and to provide whole-person care and wraparound services to rural residents with heart failure. The Network aims to address the overarching chronic health issues for this patient population by providing more seamless avenues of care continuity and coordination. |
| Mental Health First Aid Training The Louisiana Rural Health Association (LRHA) has partnered with the Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI) to support outreach and recruitment for LPHI's Mental Health First Aid Training (MHFA) program. The goal of the program is to bridge the gap of the mental health provider shortage by providing tools and trainings to build community awareness and knowledge on how to identify, understand, and respond to mental health and substance use crisis. These trainees become the first line of support in the community. |
| Delta Regional Rural Health Workforce Training Program LRHA is proud to partner with the Louisiana Primary Care Association to support the Delta Region Rural Health Workforce Training Program. The purpose of this program is to education and train future and current health professional in rural parishes in medical coding and billing, claims processing, information management, and clinical documentation. |
| Medicare Education Programs Our organization works with Scott Woods to help the members of our community with Medicare questions and plans. The LRHA Medicare Education Program includes Medicare education classes for those new to Medicare as well as individual plan reviews both during Medicare Open Enrollment and year-round. In order to better serve our members and Medicare Beneficiaries, we also have a Medicare Information Line. Your patients can call this line with questions on Original Medicare, Medicare and Drug Plans, or any other question related to Medicare. Advisers also assist with enrollment into subsidies such as Extra Help, Pharmaceutical Assistance programs, and various Medicare Savings Programs. The Medicare Information Line is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and costs your patients nothing. Have your patients call 888-244-6218 for all their Medicare needs. To schedule a Medicare 101 class at your facility, email Scott Woods at medicare@lrha.org. |
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