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Opening Announcement
Are you interested in
collaboration? Integrated healthcare? Beautiful
mountains? If so, the Collaborative Family
Healthcare Association's Tenth Annual Conference
may be just for you. November 6-9, 2008, in
Denver, Colorado, CFHA will hold its Tenth Annual
convention at the downtown Denver Grand Hyatt
Hotel.
The theme of the CFHA
conference for 2008 is
Collaboration as the Key to the Medical Home.
It is
clear that the Medical Home concept is enjoying
a surge of support, and will most likely be at
the foundation of the current round of health
care reform. All over the
United States
primary care is being retooled to produce the
collaboration and continuity necessary for a
medical home. CFHA's national conference is a
perfect showcase for this agenda, and given the
geographical and professional diversity of the
attendees, the conference will give tremendous
impetus to the development of integrated primary
care both in
Colorado
and across the country.
Keynote speakers will
include Larry Green, M.D. who will address
national trends in the reform of our health care
system, particularly as it pertains to the
creation of integrated medical homes. On
Friday morning we will have a plenary panel of
Arlene Katz, from Harvard University, Sue
Bergeson from the Depression and Bipolar Support
Alliance, and Bill Doherty from the University
of Minnesota, each bringing a unique perspective
to the notion of integrating community health
resources into the medical home. Our Friday
lunch speaker will be Ann McDaniel,
Vice-President of the Washington Post
Corporation, who will talk about the election
that will have just occurred and its
implications for health care and healthcare
policy.
CFHA's mission is to
produce and promote integrated primary care,
particularly involving collaboration between
primary care clinicians and mental healthcare
professionals, in the belief that such care is
essential to a properly functioning healthcare
system. The conference will be a national
showcase for demonstration projects and pilots,
a hothouse for ideas, a place where one finds
collaborators, a place where students find
mentors, and a place where one learns the state
of the healthcare field. Attendees typically
include, but not limited to: medical and
behavioral health clinicians, educators, program
leaders, policymakers, evaluators, researchers,
benefits managers, insurers, purchasers, and
foundation representatives.
Conference Objectives:
- Provide an
interdisciplinary forum to bring together
and engage multiple professionals and other
stakeholders in healthcare
- Promote opportunities
to teach and learn about best practices in
collaborative family healthcare
- Share concrete
skills, practical applications, wisdom,
perspective, experiences
- Expand the knowledge
base or collaborative healthcare curriculum
- Articulate the
conceptual and research base of
collaborative care
- Stimulate thinking
about what collaborative family healthcare
is and how to apply it clinically,
operationally and financially
- Provide a chance to
network with others who share the passion of
this in this broad, grassroots "community"
- Examine the concept
of the medical home
We look forward to
seeing you at the Conference!
Please feel free to contact us with any
questions:
Collaborative Family
Healthcare Association
P.O. Box 23980
Rochester,
NY 14692-3980
(585) 482-8210
(585) 482-2901 (fax)
staff@CFHA.net
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