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American Health Care Congress
A Brighter Future for American Health CareTogether we can significantly reduce the financial burdens on America's families, businesses and public agencies.
October 12, 2004, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Location:
Doubletree Hotel Ontario
222 N. Vineyard Ave.
Ontario, CA 91764
(909) 937-0900
Fax: (909) 937-1999
www.ontarioairport.doubletree.com
Presented by:
Loma Linda University School of Public Health,
West End Community Health Action Network (WE-CHAN), and special guest CodeBlue Now! America's Health Care Voice
Table of contents
| About the speakers | Preliminary agenda |
| Quick health care facts |
Event overview
Specific topics
This inaugural American Health Care Congress assembles a group of local and national authorities devoted to understanding the impact of health care on our community and economy.
Keynote sessions
- CodeBlueNow!, America's Voice for Health Care Challenges
- Health Care Overview
- Economic Impact of Health Care
- Perspectives of Health Care
- Possible Solutions to Health Care Change
Breakout sessions
- Local Community Planning, facilitated by Dora Barilla & Leslie Sorensen
- Cost/Quality/Access, facilitated by Pat Briggs & Douglas Benn
- Financing/Malpractice/Management, facilitated by S. Eric Anderson & Gerald Tracy
- Health Disparities, facilitated by J.C. Belliard
Goal
The goal of this event is to raise community awareness of health-care problems and discuss potential solutions.
Together we can significantly reduce the financial burdens on America's families, businesses, and public agencies.
Who should attend?
- Anyone who cares about the future of health care should attend this event.
About the speakers:
Richard Hart, MD, DrPh
Dr. Hart has served Loma Linda University since 1972, including serving as chair of the School of Public Health's department of health sciences, director of the Center for Health Promotion, chair of the School of Medicine's department of preventive medicine, and dean of the School of Public Health.
Dr. Hart's vision extends beyond the walls of Loma Linda University, not only to the local communities, but to the villages and towns, the hospitals and mission clinics, in the farthest reaches of our globe. He has served as chief of party for a USAID project in Tanzania where he developed a national maternal and child health program that is still a model for Africa today. His passion for humanitarian service has led to the development of a variety of programs at Loma Linda University including: Students for International Mission Service (SIMS) and Social Action Community Health System (SACHS) ? a local low-cost clinic for the medically underserved. Dr. Hart also serves as president of Adventist Health International (AHI), a management corporation established to restore Adventist mission hospitals worldwide.
John Husing, PhD
Dr. John Husing is the leading authority on the city and county economies of the Inland Empire, a topic he first began studying in 1964 with his doctoral thesis at Claremont Graduate University. For the past 40 years, Dr. Husing has maintained an extensive database documenting the economic forces affecting Riverside and San Bernardino counties. He uses these data, his political experience, and extensive knowledge of the region to explain its economic strength to executives and policy makers throughout Southern California
Dr. Husing's firm, Economics & Politics, Inc. has a single mission: to raise the Inland Empire's standard of living. The company is a major source of information for public and private entities trying to understand the political and economic forces determining the future of the Inland Empire. For additional information go to www.johnhusing.com.
John Kitzhaber, MD, former governor of Oregon
Dr. Kitzhaber is a former emergency physician, legislator and two term governor of the state of Oregon. He is the past president of the Oregon State Senate where he authored and implemented the groundbreaking Oregon health plan, now in its tenth year. His legislative career, which began in 1979, was marked by active leadership in the areas of public education, community development, environmental stewardship and a wide variety of health-care issues including: long-term care, resource allocation and uncompensated care. In January, 2003, Dr. Kitzhaber began serving as president of the Estes Park Institute, which conducts six annual educational conferences for community hospitals. Dr. Kitzhaber serves as the director for the Center for Evidence Based Policy at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. He also holds an endowed chair on health care policy with The Foundation for Medical Excellence, an Oregon based public, nonprofit educational foundation. Dr. Kitzhaber is an avid fly-fisherman and whitewater rafter. He has one son, Logan, and resides in Portland, Oregon. www.southernhealth.org.au/community/kitzhaber.htm
James Kyle, MD, MDiv
Dr. Kyle presently serves as the health administration department chair and dean of the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University. Dr. Kyle was a former chief executive officer of Sharp Health Plan in San Diego, chief medical officer of Charles Drew University, founder and chief operations officer of Genesis Healthcare Strategies, as well as vice-president of the California Market of Schaller Anderson. He is an ordained minister and an accomplished musician.
Kathleen O'Connor, founder and president of the Board
Kathleen O'Connor, founder, CodeBlueNow! is a nationally recognized analyst and consumer-oriented advocate of health-care reform. A 25-year veteran of the health-care industry, she also is an accomplished writer, speaker and consultant, and speaks three languages fluently: English, Japanese and Health Care. She is the author of The Buck Stops Nowhere: Why America's Health Care is All Dollars and No Sense. She also writes a regular column for The Seattle Times and is publisher of The O'ConnorReport: Insights and Commentaries on Health Care Today (www.oconnorhealthanalyst.com).
Kathleen has held a variety of executive-level positions in the for-profit, non-profit, and academic sectors of the health-care industry, and as an entrepreneur. She was the founder and president of a national non-profit women's health organization, Women for Healthcare Equity through Reform and Education. She also participated in the inaugural Community Leadership Program sponsored by the Kettering Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the National Association of Community Leadership programs.
Kathleen was a member of the White House Women's Conference Circle; the Medicare Coverage Advisory Commission in the department of health and human services; Women's Health Advisory Commission, U.S. Public Health Service, Region X; Center for Excellence in Women's Health at the University of Washington; Washington Alzheimer's Disease Association, and the King County Board of Mental Health. She is a charter member and was the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Fremont, the Fun Club. She is also a paid, published poet. Kathleen has a bachelors degree in Japanese area studies and a masters in comparative governments, both from the University of Washington.
Her works have been published nationally in HealthPlan Magazine (formerly HMO Magazine), Healthcare Informatics, Infocare, Business and Health, Managed Care Journal, Journal of Employee Benefits, Puget Sound Business Journal, Seattle Magazine and Washington CEO. As an industry analyst, she has been quoted in Glamour and Woman's Day, and has appeared on "Pure Oxygen", the television news program on the Oxygen Cable Channel.
Richard E. Ya Deau MD, FACS, FACHCE (HON)
Richard E. Ya Deau was born in New Jersey in 1931 and, after the death of his mother in 1934, was raised primarily in his father's pharmacy. He was awarded a full scholarship to Yale University upon his graduation from Leonia High School.
Upon graduation from Yale, class of 1953, he joined the United States Marine Corps. At the completion of his officer training he served in Korea as the commanding officer of Combat Outpost Ailene, G131. It was largely an uneventful posting with the cease-fire having been in force for about one year at the time of his posting overseas in 1954.
He returned to the States and attended New York Medical College. After a year at Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he moved to Rochester, Minnesota, for a surgical residency. He entered the practice of surgery and oncology in 1964 in St. Paul, Minnesota. During his practice here he was instrumental in the founding of the Foundation for Health Care Evaluation. In 1968, he began lecturing on quality control, information systems, and the organization, development, and management of health-care systems with Estes Park Institute, University of Colorado.
During his practice career his principal interest was oncological surgery (the surgical treatment of cancer). This included the development of a hospice, initially for children, and later developed for adults. This was the second such organization in the United States. Incident to his teaching activities on health care management and quality initiatives he was named an honorary fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives.
Upon retirement from surgical practice, Dr. Ya Deau was president of a computer software firm committed to real-time claims adjudication and data warehousing, as well as reporting in real-time quality related issues.
During past three years his activities have been directed at teaching and lecturing. His areas of expertise address the emergence of genetics as a major force in medical practice as well as the implications technology will have upon the ?hospital of the future.?
Dr. Ya Deau has been married to Mary Ya Deau for 47 years; they have three sons. His eldest son is a PhD actively engaged in security and loss management; the second son is an MD, PhD practicing in New York City. His youngest son has been struggling for more than a decade with severe bi-polar disease and schizoaffective disorder. One of his seven grandchildren has Down's syndrome. His professional life aside, the problems of his son and granddaughter keep a sharp point on his interests in the future of our nation's health-care systems.
Registration fees
- Fees include handouts, and lunch.
- Pre-registration $45 (deadline September 20, 2004)
- Regular registration $60
For students and seniors
- Pre-registration $25 (deadline September 20, 2004)
- Regular registration $35
How to register
- Telephone (909) 558-4595 or (800) 854-5661
Register with payment to a credit card. - Fax (909) 558-4087
Pay with a credit card and fax your registration form (PDF). - Mail your payment and registration form (PDF) to:
Loma Linda University
Office of Continuing Professional Education
1706 Nichol Hall
Loma Linda, CA 92350
American Health Care Congress
October 12, 2004, 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.; the general sessions will be held 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. including lunch and the workshops from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. with a reception following.
Moderator: Brandon Shamim, Beacon Management
Time |
Topic |
Speakers |
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8:30-9:00
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Registration |
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9:00-9:05
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Welcome and Introductions |
Gary Ovitt, mayor of Ontario, California |
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9:05-9:15
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Overview of CodeBlueNow! |
Kathleen O'Connor, founder |
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9:15-10:00
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Health Care overview |
James Kyle, MD, MDiv |
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10:00-10:45
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Perspectives on Health Care |
Richard Hart, MD, DrPH Richard Ya Deau, MD |
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10:45-11:00
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Break | |
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11:00-11:45
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Impact of Health Care on the Economy | John Husing, local economist |
| Introduction of Kitzhaber |
Dora Barilla |
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12:00-12:50
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Lunch Keynote speaker |
John Kitzhaber, MD, former governor, state of Oregon |
| Afternoon Breakout Sessions |
Facilitators |
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1:30 - 3:00 |
Local Community Planning | Dora Barilla,MPH/Leslie Sorensen |
| Cost/Quality/Access | Pat Briggs/Douglas Benn DDS,PhD | |
| Financing/Malpractice/Management | S. Eric Anderson, PhD/Gerald Tracy | |
| Health Disparities |
J. C. Belliard, PhD |
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| Patient Centered Care | ||
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3:15-3:45
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Possible Solutions |
CodeBlueNow! Finalists |
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3:45-4:15
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Creating a Template for Change |
Kathleen O'Connor |
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4:15
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Closing Remarks | |
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4:45- 6:00
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Reception |
CodeBlueNow! America's Health Care Voice
Review the recently published summary report of the findings from the CodeBlueNow! "Build an American Health System" challenge, held October 2003. The report - "Solving the Unsolvable: Fresh Perspectives on the Health Care Dilemma" - highlights the ideas from the top finalists in the Health Care Challenge. You will find the executive summary at www.codebluenow.org/challengeexsum.html.
CodeBlueNow! finalists
Meet the top ten finalists from the CodeBlueNow! "Build an American Health System" challengeBelow are the authors and their contact information for the top ten winning proposals. Go to www.codebluenow.org/historyexecsummaries.html to read the executive summaries for each proposal along with an additional ten proposals that won honorable mentions.
First Place: Douglas Benn, DDS, PhD, professor of radiology and director, oral diagnostic systems, department of oral surgery and diagnostic sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida - Views expressed in the paper represent the author's, not the University of Florida.
Second Place: Frank Yuse, M.Ed.Adm, retiree, Spokane, Washington.
Wayne Anthony, M.Div, MBA, SPHR (senior professional in human resources), Business resource center, The Pastoral institute, Columbus, Georgia.
Ivan Miller, PhD, psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice, Boulder, Colorado.
Elizabeth A. Pavka, MS, PhD, and S. Samuel Shermis, MEd, PhD, are from Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. Pavka is a nutritionist and Dr. Shermis is a retired university professor.
Joan Richardson, MD, primary care physician in private practice, Miami, Florida.
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Marissa Scalia, Team leader.
School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California. S. Eric Anderson MBA, PhD, faculty advisor, (909) 558-4300, extension 47109, Dora Barilla, MPH, CHES, doctoral student.
Gerald Tracy, JD, and Terri Clark CNM, MSN, PhD, live in Connecticut. Gerald Tracy provides corporate legal counsel for Hartford Insurance and Dr. Clark is on the faculty of the School of Nursing for Yale University.
Quick health care facts
- In 2002, an estimated 43.3 million Americans under age 65 lacked health insurance, accounting for approximately 17.2 percent of the nonelderly population (the vast majority of those over age 65 are covered by Medicare.)
- Uninsured adults are less than half as likely as those with insurance to received needed care for a serious medical condition. An estimated 18,000 people a year die prematurely because they lacked health insurance.
- Having a high proportion of the population uncovered by health insurance can also hurt people in the community who have coverage. Reduced total revenues for health care providers who treat a large number of uninsured patients can reduce the availability of specialized services, like trauma or burn care.
- Covering the uninsured would result in a relatively small percentage increase in overall national health spending. A report from the nonpartisan Institute of Medicine (IOM), estimates that providing health coverage for all Americans would add 2.5 to 5 percent to total health spending.
- The potential economic gain to the nation resulting from continuous health coverage for all Americans is $65 to $130 billion per year, the IOM estimates.
Source: Alliance For Health Reform, July 2004, www.allhealth.org
If you are affected by health care in any way, then this workshop is for you!
Join us to participate in the groundbreaking event to learn more about the potential to repair our broken health care system.