Webinar

Registration is free and required. This session is available to individuals residing in HHS Region 8 (CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, and WY). Certificates of attendance will be available.

Registration is free and required. This session is available to individuals residing in HHS Region 8 (CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, and WY). Certificates of Attendance will be available.

The COVID-19 pandemic and recent elections are changing the national conversation around expanding healthcare coverage and reining in rising healthcare costs. President Biden campaigned on a platform of expanding access to public health coverage in ways that could change the role of employer-sponsored health insurance, which currently covers about half of all Americans.

This online public briefing will explore how large employers view the burden of rising healthcare costs and the role of government in addressing them.

The Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness will host an online public workshop on integrating serious illness care into primary care delivery. The workshop will be held over two webinars on June 10 and 17, 2021. The workshop will examine the intersection between primary care and palliative care principles, practices, policies and payment mechanisms and focus on the central role of primary care in providing high-quality care for people with serious illness.

The Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness will host an online public workshop on integrating serious illness care into primary care delivery. The workshop will be held over two webinars on June 10 and 17, 2021. The workshop will examine the intersection between primary care and palliative care principles, practices, policies and payment mechanisms and focus on the central role of primary care in providing high-quality care for people with serious illness.

High-quality primary care is the foundation of a strong healthcare system and essential for improving the health of the population. However, 25 years after the Institute of Medicine published its report Primary Care: America’s Health in a New Era (1996), this foundation remains under-resourced. Today, only about 5 percent of healthcare expenditures go to primary care, its workforce pipeline is shrinking, and unequal access to primary care pervades.

In an effort to advance lifestyle medicine at a systems level, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine is offering two one-day virtual symposia that address the integration of health restoration into health systems and academic settings.

The COVID-19 pandemic has buffeted the primary care and public health systems in the United States, straining already overburdened resources and services in ways that threaten response efforts and exacerbate racial and economic disparities and injustice. The pandemic has also demonstrated that barriers to collaboration and communication between the primary care and public health systems threaten the health and well-being of the U.S. population.