REIMAGINING OUR HEALTH SYSTEMS (WATCH VIDEO)
Meeting Community Needs Through Oversight of Mergers & Closures, Speaker: Lois Uttley, Co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need (Lois Uttley PP Presentation)
Ensuring Safe Staffing to Patient Ratios, Speaker: Gail Myers, StateWide Deputy Director (Gail Myers PP Presentation)
Transforming the Nursing Home Culture, Speaker: Cathy Unsino, LCSW, Advocate
Federally Qualified Health Centers, Speaker: Ray Babowicz, Community Health Center of the North Country (Ray Babowicz PP Presentation)
Telehealth=Access, Speaker: Andrew Solomon, MPH, Senior Program Manager, Northeast Telehealth Resource Center (Andrew Solomon PP Presentation)
Home Health Care Crisis, Speaker: María Alvarez, StateWide Executive Director (Maria Alvarez PP Presentation)
KEYNOTE (WATCH VIDEO)
Mary Bassett, MD, Harvard University Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights; Former Commissioner NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (Mary Bassett PP Presentation)
IMPROVING CONSUMER PROTECTIONS (WATCH VIDEO)
COVID Medical Debt and Other Consumer Issues, Speaker: Chuck Bell, Programs Director, Advocacy, Consumer Reports (Check Bell PP Presentation)
Medical Debt, Speaker: Judy Jones, member of StateWide and the Finger Lakes Chapter of the Campaign for New York Health (“2 New Yorkers Erased $1.5 Million in Debt for Hundreds of Strangers”, New York Times, 12/5/2018)
2 New Yorkers Erased $1.5 Million in Medical Debt for Hundreds of Strangers
Improving Long Term Care Quality Through Enhanced Surveillance, Speaker: Cynthia Rudder, PhD, Co-founder, Long Term Care Community Coalition (Cynthia Rudder PP Presentation)