Chapter Description: 

This is the group page for the Community Leadership Council's Administrative Committee. Members of the Administrative Committee are appointed by the Executive Director, in consultation with the chair of the Community Leadership Council. For 2009, members of the Administrative Committee are:

  • Bill Andrews, Harbor
  • Jason Gingerich, Canby
  • Paul Keller, Newberg
  • Jo O'Blennis, New Jersey
  • David Pollack, Portland
  • Elsa Porter, Portland
  • Joe Zaerr, Corvallis

Members for 2010 will be posted by February 1, 2010.

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Upcoming Defend Oregon Phone Banking

I'm passing on this information on Defend Oregon phone banking that will be done next week to help inform prospective voters about the upcoming tax initiative ballot measures.  A lot of folks don't know or understand this issue and its importance, including the impact on the state budget, including health related budgets, if the tax measures fail.

Update on Health Information Technology

Liz Baxter and I attended the ‘Oregon Health Information Technology (HIT) Stakeholder Engagement Meeting' in Salem on Thursday July 23.

Free Webinar with Berwick, Davis and Fisher

Join Berwick, Davis, and Fisher for a Webinar on How Physicians Can Help Achieve Health Reform Legislation that will fundamentally change the U.S. health care system is now being shaped in Washington, D.C. And this time, nearly all stakeholders are at the negotiating table. Join a Commonwealth Fund/Institute for Healthcare Improvement webinar this Friday, May 22, 2009, at 11 a.m., E.D.T., as three of the nation's leading thinkers in health policy and practice outline how physicians and others can help create a health care system that offers high-quality, affordable care for all Americans while containing costs.

Webinar panelists Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Karen Davis, Ph.D., president of The Commonwealth Fund; and Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H., professor and associate director of Population Health and Policy at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, will address quality improvement, integrated delivery, and payment reform as well as cost-saving measures that can help finance the coverage of the uninsured. A question-and-answer session will follow the panelists' presentations.

To register for this free one-hour online meeting, go to  
http://commonwealthfundevents.webex.com.

Start Date and Time: 
Fri, 05/22/2009 - 1:00am
End Date and Time: 
Fri, 05/22/2009 - 2:00am

CANCELLED: Human Service Subcommittee of Ways and Means: HB2009

This meeting and discussion of HB2009 has now been cancelled.

These schedules are subject to change, so we will update this event if we hear there has been a change to the schedule.  

You can also listen to/watch live streaming of committees and floor sessions at this link

http://oregonchannel.org/rams.htm (requires Windows Media Player) 

 

Start Date and Time: 
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 6:00am

HB 2009 and SB 856 Comparison

Attached is the side-by-side comparison completed by Oregon Health Policy and Research. This will give you a brief update on how the bills are similar and how they differ. Here is the email sent to several organizations from Carol Robinson that accompanied the spreadsheet:

Latest Update from Health Fund Board/Oregon Health Policy and Research

Please see this link to read their description of status of HB 2009 and other bills:

http://www.oregon.gov/OHPPR/HFB/index.shtml

Liz 

Administrative Committee

CLC Admin Committee
Chapter Description: 

This is the group page for the Community Leadership Council's Administrative Committee. Members of the Administrative Committee are appointed by the Executive Director, in consultation with the chair of the Community Leadership Council. For 2009, members of the Administrative Committee are:

  • Bill Andrews, Harbor
  • Jason Gingerich, Canby
  • Paul Keller, Newberg
  • Jo O'Blennis, New Jersey
  • David Pollack, Portland
  • Elsa Porter, Portland
  • Joe Zaerr, Corvallis

Members for 2010 will be posted by February 1, 2010.

______________________________________________

 

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