HomeTown Spring Meeting was a tremendous success - largest attendance ever!!

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With the largest attendance ever to a HomeTown Meeting (approximately 170), the agenda flowed well and was very strong. A few of the points made by the various speakers include:

Rep Channell-
1)    Your grass roots efforts worked extremely well
2)    Next year has a possibility of being a worse nightmare than this in terms of budget shortfall
3)    Budget will not get any prettier
4)    Tighten your belts a lot more

Senator Johnson-
1)    Grass roots may be the most important thing a rural hospital CEO can manage
2)    Next census will rob rural Georgia of at least one senator and several representatives and possibly one congressman
3)    Provider Tax was DOA in his opinion in senate from the start

Michele Madison-
1)    Stimulus package will generate many rural hospital opportunities in EMR
2)    HIPAA through stimulus will become a much more aggressive enforcement arm
3)    Have an attorney- client relationship for all of these OIG/RAC/MAC matters before hand because they do not work after the fact