Transforming Clinical Practice to Care for the Underserved

Safety Net Health Centers and Patient Centered Medical Homes

Monday Apr 11, 2016 08:30 am to 03:00 pm EDT

Newseum

555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Knight Conference Center, 8th Floor

Washington, DC 20001

United States

This symposium, co-sponsored by Carefirst BlueCross BlueShield and the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, will showcase successes and lessons learned from the grantees of CareFirst's Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) initiative, while providing a unique networking opportunity for PCMH providers, researchers, and other stakeholders. Free and open to the public, the program will feature a panel highlighting grantees' experiences and presentations from leading researchers discussing the future of PCMH and payment reform. Attendees also will hear an exciting announcement about future PCMH funding for safety net health centers. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.

The symposium will also be webcast. Stream the event live on April 11th here.

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Agenda

AGENDA

8:30 AM Coffee and Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM Welcome

Maria Harris Tildon, Senior Vice President, CareFirst BlueCross

BlueShield

9:15 AM Overview of the CareFirst Safety Net Health Center PCMH

Initiative

Chet Burrell, President & CEO, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

9:45 AM Safety Net Grantee Panel Session (Facilitated by Chet Burrell)

Kathleen Knolhoff, MPH, President & CEO, CCI Health and Wellness

Maria Gomez, RN, MPH, President & CEO, Mary's Center for

Maternal and Child Care

Faye Royale-Larkins, RN, MPH, CEO, Total Health Care

Vincent Keane, President & CEO, Unity Health Care

10:35 AM Welcome & State of PCMH Movement

Marci Nielsen, Ph.D., MPH, President & CEO, Patient-Centered

Primary Care Collaborative

11:00 AM Break

11:20 AM Keynote: The Importance of Care Coordination to the Medically

Underserved

Melinda Abrams M.S., Vice President, Delivery System Reform, The

Commonwealth Fund

12:15 PM Lunch Buffet

12:30 PM Panel: What Does Value Based Purchasing Mean for Safety Net

Providers?

Jonathan Blum, MPP, Executive Vice President, Medical Affairs,

CareFirst

Stephanie Glover, MPAff, Health Policy Analyst, The National

Partnership for Women and Families

Nilesh Kalyanaraman, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Health Care

for the Homeless

Len Nichols, Ph.D., George Mason University, Director of the Center

for Health

Policy Research and Ethics and Professor of Health Policy

Sara Rosenbaum, J. D., Professor, George Washington University

John O'Brien, PharmD, MPH, Vice President, Public Policy, CareFirst

(Moderator)

1:30 PM Roundtables

Letting Patients Help – Seeking Input to Improve Patient-Centered

Interactions

(Moderated by Marci Nielsen)

Leadership & Culture/Team Based Care

(Moderated by Tiffany Tate, MHS, CareFirst)

2:30 PM Closing Remarks and Adjournment

Registration

Advance registration is encouraged by April 7th. Register for the event HERE.

Speakers

Contact

For additional information about this event, please contact Vadim Pogosov at Vadim.Pogosov@carefirst.com.

Speakers

John M. O'Brien

Maria Harris Tildon

Nilesh Kalyanaraman

Stephanie Glover

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