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Telehealth: Expanding Access & Improving Outcomes in Rural Communities

About This Webinar

Telehealth, in its various forms, has become an increasingly relevant method for increasing access to care in rural communities with demonstrable benefits for those receiving care. Learn from two grantees about their experiences in implementing and expanding their telehealth initiatives from the perspectives of a remote patient monitoring and tele-neurology initiative.

Who can view: Everyone
Webinar Price: Free
Featured Presenters
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Executive Director, Bay Rivers Telehealth Alliance (BRTA)
Donna Dittman Hale has been working in Telehealth since 2012 and implemented Telehealth Projects in Primary Care and Specialty Practices, Nursing Homes, Schools, Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Systems, and home-based Remote Patient Monitoring. Her organization, BRTA received 2018 HRSA Award as Rural Health Community Champion for implementation of Evidence Based Practices. She works with Academic Medical Centers, regional and rural health systems and medical groups, community based organizations to create consortiums to create the infrastructure and evaluate the effectiveness of Telehealth systems in rural regions of Eastern Virginia.

Ms. Hale has an MHA from Virginia Commonwealth University, is a Certified Telehealth Coordinator and has a Certificate in Urban Policy and Planning from American University. An experienced nonprofit manager and consultant, she has experience in facilitating the development of community partnerships, foundation grant programs, training, communications, organizational needs assessments, evaluation and leadership transition services. She has served as Executive Director and consultant; supervised staffs and volunteer corps up to over 300. Her combined nonprofit, networking, and development experience make her well qualified to lead health networks, and to facilitate projects with diverse partners. She is also a dedicated meditation trainer, recovery coach and dog-mom, as well as proud mom of a grown son, and lives with her husband in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Grants Post Award Program Coordinator, CentraCare Health
Dani Bredeson, BAS, is the Grants Post Award Program Coordinator at CentraCare Health in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She is responsible for management and monitoring for all federal, state, city, county, and private foundation grants and serves as the liaison between the funder and the program director to ensure smooth and accurate grant accounting and reporting. Prior to joining CentraCare Health, Dani worked as a Project Manager managing research grants for a large healthcare organization for over 8 years. Dani received her Bachelor of Applied Science in at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
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Clinical Educator, Virtual Health at Centracare
Mollie Greener, RN, MSN is the Clinical Educator for Virtual Health at Centracare, located in central Minnesota. She is responsible for assisting with developing and executing telehealth projects. Mollie also creates the clinical workflows for our Virtual Health team. She is the telehealth trainer and collaborates for both the telehealth site facilitator and provider prior to the implementation of new telehealth project. Prior to this role she was a Staff and Charge Nurse at the St. Cloud Hospital for over a decade and also spent some time as an LPN. 

Mollie’s experiences as a Bedside Nurse, Charge Nurse, and Educator have allowed her to impact care coordination, patient experience, technology, evidence-based practice, patient and family centered care, and access to care for her community.

Mollie received her RN from Anoka Ramsey Community College and her MSN from Walden University.
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Program Coordinator, Virtual Health at CentraCare
Ken Lolmasteymaugh, currently serves as the Program Coordinator for Virtual Health at CentraCare in central Minnesota.  In his role, he coordinates virtual health services for internal and external stake holders within the CentraCare system.  Additionally, Ken has recently began gathering data for the purposes of evaluating patient satisfaction and the quantity of patients using specialties and services.
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