Better Choices, Better Health (BCBH) Leaders Qualifications and Expected Skills

Funds Available

In collaboration with Eat Smart Move More South Carolina, the SC DPH Division of Healthy Aging is pleased to announce the availability of implementation funds to assist community based organizations with implementing and/or expanding exercise and disease management interventions for people with arthritis and other serious health conditions.

Promoting Interoperability Programs: Meaningful Use

The Promoting Interoperability Programs, formerly known as the Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs, and more commonly known as Meaningful Use, was implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to encourage health care providers and organizations to implement and use health care information technology.

Meaningful Use includes public health reporting options. DPH offers the following programs for eligible clinicians, hospitals, and critical access hospitals:

Nursing Home Civil Money Penalty (CMP) Reinvestment Projects

Civil Money Penalties (CMPs) are monetary penalties imposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) against nursing homes that have failed to maintain compliance with federal requirements. A portion of CMPs collected from nursing homes are returned to the states in which the CMPs were imposed and may be reinvested or used for projects supporting activities that benefit nursing home residents and that protect and improve their quality of care or quality of life. CMP funds may be used for, but not limited to the following: