Invitational Critical Health Areas Project (CHAP)/Emerging Leaders Meeting
Gearing Up to Govern
NCSL Fall Forum Meeting
San Antonio, Texas
December 4-5, 2006
For questions about this meeting, send us an e-mail at health.chaps@ncsl.org.
Getting Your Message Across: Effective Communication for Health Policymakers
- William "Bill" A. Smith, Academy for Education Development
Massachusetts and Indiana: Thinking through Options for Access
Massachusetts led the way in 2006 with a complicated and comprehensive access reform. This session will compare Massachusetts with other recent state efforts to expand access, and we’ll walk through the process of comparing and choosing among options. Come prepared to talk about approaches under discussion in your state.
- Christie Hager, MA Chief Health Counsel, Office of Speaker, MA Great and General Court [Presentation
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- John Okeson, Senior Legislative Counsel to IN Governor Mitch Daniels [Presentation ]
Integrating Treatment of Chronic Diseases and Mental Health Conditions
Mental illness frequently co-occurs in people with chronic conditions complicating the treatment of both. One third of patients with depression have a co-occurring medical condition and another third have two medical conditions. The mortality, morbidity and costs increase in patients with mental illness and chronic disease. Learn about models that coordinate care to address both the medical conditions and the mental illness.
- Barbara Edwards, Health Management Associates [Presentation ]
- Liz Reardon, Managed Care Director, Office of VT Health Access [Presentation ]
Reception with Brief Remarks
- JoAnn Lampere, National Coordinator, State Affairs, Health and Long Term Care, AARP
The Outcomes of Addiction Treatment and Approaches to Measuring Performance
This session will focus on performance measurement in addiction treatment programs and will include information about the National Outcome Measures (NOMs). Tom McLellan will discuss how treatment can be more accountable and effective. Ken Stark will discuss how expanding alcohol/drug treatment is an investment in health care cost containment and public safety.
- Thomas McLellan, Ph.D., CEO and Chairman of the Board, Treatment Research Institute [Presentation ]
- Kenneth Stark, Director, WA State Mental Health Transformation Project [Presentation ]
- Becca Crowell, Executive Director, Nexus Recovery, Dallas, TX [Presentation ]
Telemedicine and Providers Distance Education: Lessons from States
Many are looking to telemedicine to solve problems in health care. We will look at telemedicine from a health care providers focus and examine how it can be applied to relieve the problems of shortages, disparities and geographical distribution.
- Senator Robert Burns, AZ Telemedicine Council
- Dale C. Alverson, M.D., Medical Director, Center for Telehealth at the University of NM Health Sciences Center [Presentation ]
- Carol Reineck, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Acute Nursing Care, University of TX Health Sciences Center at San Antonio [Presentation ]
Looking to the Future
Where do we go from here? We will talk through legislative and CHAP priorities for next year.
Financing Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment: Working Across Systems
- Suzanne Gelber, M.S.W., Ph.D., Managing Partner, The Avisa Group [Presentation ]
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