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