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Making Health Reform Happen

Cafritz Foundation Conference Center
George Washington University Marvin Center
Parking: Paid Parking
Metro: Foggy Bottom on the Orange Line

AGENDA 

MORNING

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:15 Welcome: George Jones, Chair, DCPCA Board of Directors; Executive Director, Bread for the City

9:15-9:40 Introductions: Sharon Baskerville, Executive Director, DCPCA 
Keynote: Robert Bobb, City Administrator, "Health Reform in the District, another year of work ahead"

9:40-10:00 Introductions: Robert Bobb, City Administrator
Dr. Gregg Pane, Director, Department of Health, "A Vision for the future of the Department of Health"

10:15-10:45 Panel Discussion: How are the rising costs of health care impacting the city budget? 
Robert Bobb, City Administrator 
Ed Lazere, Director, DC Fiscal Policy Institute. 
Justin Kopca, Deputy Budget Director, Office of the Chief Financial Officer 
Noel Brave, Deputy Chief of Staff, Executive office of the Mayor

10:45-11:15 What New York City Primary Care Development Corporation has achieved by expanding and improving primary care.
Introductions: Sharon Baskerville
Thomas Manning, Director of Capital Access, NYPCDC

11:15-12:15 Breakout sessions: Making Reform Happen

• Medical Homes: Economic Development Health Data: Clinical-Marth Ross, Nikki Lurie, Allison Colman
• The impact of rising costs for the city on primary care payments- Sharon Baskerville, Charles Allen, Justin Kopca, Ed Lazere
• Medical Homes: How the money will move into the community- S. Orlene Grant, Rene Wallis
• School-Based Health System-Jordan Spooner, Gina Lagomarsino

AFTERNOON

12:15-1:30 Networking Lunch, buffet style

1:30-2:00 Presentation: Walter Smith, Executive Director, DC Appleseed and Debra Chollet, Senior Fellow, Mathmatica Policy Research, "The DC Appleseed Report on CareFirst's Role as a Nonprofit Insurance Provider"

2:00-2:30 Panel Discussion: Sponsored by the DC League of Women Voters and DC Appleseed Obligation of Nonprofit Healthcare Providers in Meeting Health Needs of the Community 
Walter Smith, Executive Director, DC Appleseed
Debra Chollet, Senior Fellow, Mathmatica Policy Research 
Sharon Baskerville, Executive Director, DCPCA
Cathy Dunham, President, the Access Project, Boston

2:30-3:00 Closing Remarks. Adjournment

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