Spring 2003 Conference - May 9-10,
2003
List of Confirmed Speakers
FRIDAY
8:30 - 9:00 Registration, Coffee and Tea
Free Parking in J Lot
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Room 2 |
Room 3 |
9:00 - 10:20
A Critical Lack of Health Care Personnel in the County: What to
Do - Grown Your Own
Sonoma County Health Care Work Force Development
Roundtable
Articulation among the schools and educational
levels
Liz Close, Exbon Jen, John Walton
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9:00 - 10:00
Crisis in the State's Health Care Access 2003-04
Review of research, including the recent State
Options Process and the implications of the State budget crisis
Gil Ojeda
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9:00 - 12:00
Public schools employees
Discussions with Roundtables
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| 10:20 - 10:30 Break |
10:00 - 11:00
Key Options for Comprehensive Health Care in the California Legislature
Ellen Shaffer - Building Single Payor
Tom Moore - "Play or Pay", children's
comprehensive inclusion, HHL
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10:30 - 12:00
Status of the District Hospitals Crisis: Fighting Back
Jack Burrows, Mike Smith, Dale Iversen, Shawndra Nimtz
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11:00 - 12:00
Possible application of State Options research findings to Sonoma
County health care
Gil Ojeda, Tom Moore, Ellen Shaffer, Bob Shirrell
+ TBA
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12:00 - 1:00
Lunch and informal discussions; optional walk to the Campus Lakes.
Possible lunch table for facilitated discussion of the Ground
Zero quote
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1:00 - 2:20
Health Care for the Elderly: What to do next in this county
Shirlee Zane, Council on Aging and Carole Estes
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1:00 - 2:20
Utilization Analysis: Impact on Premium Rate Setting and Plan Designfor
Inflation Control
Tom Moore
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1:00 - 3:40
Academic Papers, SSU faculty
Topics:
Art Warmouth, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Chair, Dept of Psychology:
"The Economics of Health Care and the Economics of the Commons"
Tim Aust, Graduating MBA Student: "Comparison
of Organizational Forms in the California Nursing Home Industry"
Vincent Richman, MBA, PhD, Assoc Professor of Accounting,
School of Business and Economics: "Changes in cesarean rates
and infant mortality: A longitudinal analysis"
Steven Cuellar, PhD, Asst. Professor of Economics,
School of Business and Economics: "Do Food Stamps Cause an
Over-Consumption of Food?"
Barbara Russell, PhD., Education Department: "Health
Issues facing Teachers"
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2:20 - 2:30 Break
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2:20 - 2:30 Break |
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2:30 - 3:40
The County Health Crisis: User Perspectives - Employer, Labor, and
Consumer
Jani Krambs + TBA
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2:30 - 3:40
Lowering health care costs through Prevention, Early Intervention,
Health Promotion, and Outpatient Counseling
Bob Dozer, Beez Schell, Glenn Brassington, Skip
Robinson
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3:45 - 4:15 (Walls open to create one
big room for balance of day)
How Multi-Sector Engagement in Addressing the Social
and Economic Determinants of Health Status Bolsters Affordability
for Increasing Access
George Flores, MD, MPH
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4:15 - 5:00
Plan Design for Inflation Control, Completing
Access, and Increasing Quality
Bob Shirrell, Tom Moore, Skip Robinson, Gil
Ojeda
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SATURDAY
8:30 - 9:00 Registration, Coffee and Tea
Free Parking in J Lot
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| 9:00 - 12:00 |
Increasing Perspective |
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| 9:00 - 9:10 |
Welcome and Introductions
- Skip Robinson
- Mike Smith, Santa Rosa Junior College Board
Member - Greetings to the Conference from Santa Rosa Junior College
- Gilbert Ojeda, Director, California Program
on Access to Care, University of California Office of the President
- Sonoma County as Ground Zero in the Health Care Crisis
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| 9:10 - 9:15 |
Sonoma State University Provost
Bernie Goldstein welcomes the Conference and Congresswoman Lynn
Woolsey
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| 9:15 - 9:30 |
Report from Washington - Congresswoman
Lynn Woolsey
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| 9:30 - 11:15 |
Sonoma County Health Care Crisis
- How did we get here? What have we learned?
Bob Schultz, Bleys Rose, Bob Shirell and
Tom Moore
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| 11:15 - 12:00 |
The Next Set of Health Cre cuts
- State and County: How do we respond?
Gil Ojeda and Bruce Lee
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| 12:00 - 1:00 |
Lunch and informal discussions; optional
walk to Campus Lakes; possible table for discussion of Sonoma County
as "ground zero"
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| 1:00 - 5:00 |
Tools for Understanding: Where can we go from
here? |
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| 1:00 - 2:00 |
In the face of massive crisis,
can massive change work?
July Spellman - Why single payor?
Gil Ojeda - Protective Coverage and Expanding Coverage in Sonoma
County
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| 2:00 - 2:20 |
Report from Sacramento: Jim Leddy,
District Coordinator for Senator Wes Chesboro
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| 2:20 - 2:30 |
Break
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| 2:30 - 2:50 |
State and National Examples of Focusing
on Advocacy - and Some Possible Applications in Sonoma County
Megan Sweeney, SEIU International, Washington,
DC
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| 2:50 - 3:50 |
What can we take from the conference?
How do we look forward?
Gil Ojeda, Judy Spelman, Bob Shirrell, Megan
Sweeney, Mike Smith, Skip Robinson
- and time for people sitting around the roundtables indiscussion
at their tables
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| 3:50 - 4:20 |
Brief reports from Friday's sessions
on potential Sonoma County applications
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| 4:20 - 4:40 |
Requests for Help: Sonoma County
non-profits and public organizations in health care can briefly
describe their practice and their interest in working with conference
participants (Council on Aging, etc.)
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| 4:40 - 5:00 |
Wrap up and closing comments (from
speakers/panelists and from the conference participants)
Skip Robinson facilitates closing comments
(Conference assessment forms circulating among participants at this
time) |
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