Association for Utah Community Health

Peer Groups & Committees

Billing Learning Team (BLT)
Data Committee
Emergency Planning Committee
Financial Directors Round Table (FDR)
Immunization USIIS User Group
Medical Assistant Learning Team (MALT)
Medical Directors Round Table (MDR)
Pharmacy Formulary Committee
Pharmacy Round Table

Quality Improvement Peer Group

Billing Learning Team
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The Billing Learning Team meets every other month to discuss billing and coding issues concerning FQHCs.  Typically, the billing manager represents the health center at the meetings.


Data Committee
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The Data Committee is an AUCH Board of Directors subcommittee.  The group meets on as as needed basis to address issues with regard to data collection, aggregation, and presentation as well as clinic patient satisfaction surveys and AUCH supported data projects.


Emergency Planning Committee
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The Emergency Planning Committee is composed of designated emergency planning staff at each member clinic.  The group meets on an as needed basis to discuss general disaster planning topics, hazard assessments, acquisition of equipment and supplies, staff training, and the development of events and exercises to test response capabilities.


Financial Directors Round Table (FDR)
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The Financial Directors Round table meets every month to discuss financial and operations issues pertaining to FQHCs.  Typically the finance director or CFO represents the health center at the meetings.


Immunization USIIS User Group
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The Immunization USIIS User Group is a resource for health center immunization staff to learn Utah State Immunization Information System (USIIS) best practices and how to generate immunization data reports.  The Immunization USIIS User Group is set to begin meeting on a regular basis January 2010.


Medical Assistant Learning Team (MALT)
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The Medical Assistant Learning Team meets quarterly to discuss clinical support issues relating to their job as a medical assistant.  Typically a designated medical assistant represents the health center at the advisory meetings.  In addition, the MALT representatives advise on topics pertaining to clinical support, which all medical assistants can attend to improve skills.


Medical Directors Round Table (MDR)
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The Medical Directors Round table gathers regularly to exchange information and ideas, learn, and support one another in their role as the lead health center clinical administrator.  Typically, the health center Medical Director and/or Associate Medical Director represents their practice at the MDR gatherings.  The MDR is lead by Dr. Keith Horwood and Dr. Christina Gallop.


Pharmacy Formulary Committee
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The Pharmacy Formulary Committee meets quarterly to request formualry additions/deletions.  The committee also discusses the latest 340b news affecting health centers, Pharmacy Services Program news, and medication alerts.  Additionally, the committee works on improvements regarding patient/pharmacy safety issues, and provides improvement feedback.  The committee consists of providers representing each member health center taking part in contract pharmacy services.  The committee is lead by Dr. Laura Shane-McWhorter, Pharm D.


Pharmacy Round Table
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The Pharmacy Round table meets quarterly to discuss the latest 340b news affecting health centers, Pharmacy Services Program news, and medication alerts.  Additionally, the group works on improvements regarding patient/pharmacy safety.  The group holds peer group discussions of various issues facing in-clinic pharmacies.  Attendees are AUCH member location in-clinic pharmacists.


Quality Improvement Peer Group
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The Quality Improvement Peer Group meets every other month to discuss upcoming issues in quality and share quality improvement experiences and expertise.  Topics of conversation include the Uniform Data System, Joint Commission Accreditation, Chronic Condition Care, Risk Management and other topics of interest.  Typically, the designated Quality improvement Leader represents each member health center at the peer group meetings.

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