Health Care Crisis in Sonoma County, a campus-community initiative and dialogue at SSU

 

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WHAT WE CAN DO LOCALLY
March 3rd, 2007 Sonoma State University Initiative Conference

Working papers in the local health care crisis

SSU Community & Campus Initiative on the Sonoma County Health Care Crisis in partnership with the California Program on Access to Care, California Policy Research Center, University of California Office of the President

A local community case study


Table of Contents


Agenda
Three final case study reports for community and campus - What stakeholders are doing in acting to ameliorate local health care problems

Saturday, March 3rd
10 am to 2 pm


Three researchers give their study conclusions + Panel + Attendee dialogue.

1. "Improving Access to Health Care: Sonoma County's Response"

• Julie Kawahara, Consultant, Kawahara & Associates

2. "What Critical Local Health Care Data Can Be Brought Together to Better Inform Public, Health Care Providers, and Policymakers?"

• Gil Ojeda, Director, California Program on Access to Care, University of California Office of the President

3. "Increasing Access to Care for California's Medically Underserved: Four County Models" - Implications of the findings for Sonoma County, with a panel of leaders from access coalitions in those four counties.

• Annette Gardner Ph.D., MPH, Academic Specialist, University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies

• Jackie Senter, M.D., President Sonoma County Medical Association

• Gerge Perez, CEO, Memorial Hospital - Saint Joseph's


Watch the Video
Watch the Video Here or at streaming.sonoma.edu.

The video is in Windows Media Format. Mac users may use Windows Media Player 9 to view it. Mac users who can boot to Windows should do so and watch the video from there.


Press Release
Click Here


Main Research Reports
Increasing Access to Care for the Medically Underserved: Four County Models
The Address in PowerPoint outline
The Manuscript of the Address in Word Format
Annette Gardner Ph.D., MPH

Improving Access to Health Care: Sonoma County Initiatives
Julie Kawahara

Addressing Health Care Access in Sonoma County -- 2007-08 (PowerPoint)
Gil Ojeda


Acknowledgements

Recent Initiative research has been funded by The California Endowment, The California Program on Access to Care, UC Office of the President, SSU Office of the President, School of Social Sciences (for grant administration), School of Sciences and Technology (for continuation of the Initiative web site), the Northern California Central Labor Council, and the Integrative Medical Clinic, Santa Rosa.

Thanks also to the Sonoma County Medical Association, University of California San Francisco, Kaiser Permanente, and Memorial Hospital - Saint Joseph's.