Symposium Agenda

Discovery Sessions – Grays Peak Rooms

Health Equity through Diversity and Inclusiveness: Starting the Journey
Diversity and inclusiveness are key drivers of innovation and critical components for an organization to achieve its mission. They are also areas that can create apprehension and uncertainty for management, staff and those being served. What is the difference between doing diversity work and in investing in an authentic inclusiveness process? How does inclusiveness allow an organization to meet its mission more fully? How do intentional and unintentional actions in this area impact our ability to provide effective services? Join us for a highly interactive and thought provoking session where participants will explore these and other fundamental questions essential to building organizational strength and sustaining a culture of inclusiveness. Plan early, space will be limited to help facilitate a highly interactive session!

Facilitator:
Jamie Morgan – Morgan & Rushton Consulting

Closing the Grocery Gap: Health at Every Checkout
Many Colorado communities lack adequate access to grocery stores, making it difficult for people to get healthy, affordable food. Research shows that proximity to grocery stores helps people eat more fresh food. Ensuring access to fresh, healthy food is a critical component to a multi-pronged approach to fighting our country's rising obesity epidemic, as well as providing needed jobs and economic development. This discussion will focus on an innovative approach to bridging the equity gap and enticing supermarket operators to locate in underserved areas or providing a boost to existing stores to improve or increase the availability of fresh food.

Facilitator:
Cameron Bertron – Vice President of Development Services, EFG Brownfield Partners

Participants:
Jeff Brown – President and CEO, Brown's Super Stores and UpLift Solutions
Clarence Jones – President of the Board, Walsh Community Grocery
Brian Lang – Director, Supermarket Campaign, Food Trust

Rising Healthcare Costs: Solutions for Sustainability
Healthcare costs have been rising at two to three times inflation and are making the public entitlements of Medicare and Medicaid fiscally unsustainable. Colorado has the seventh highest health care costs in the nation and spends almost $1.6 billion on Medicaid, representing 21 percent of the total general fund. Many individuals and families simply cannot afford health coverage or face significant obstacles in accessing adequate care. To provide more cost-effective high quality care, Colorado has implemented a number of payment reform strategies, including patient-centered medical homes, accountable care organizations, global payment, and other approaches to align payment and incentives.

Facilitators:
Marilyn Gaipa, LCSW, CACIII, MAC – Principal, Care Solutions, LLC
Kriss Wittmann – Wittmann Studios

Participants:
Francois de Brantes – Executive Director, Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, Inc.
Steve Krebs, MD – Chief Medical Officer, Physician Health Partners
Marshall Thomas – President and CEO, Colorado Access

 Interactive Debate
Food Fight! Who gets to decide what our kids eat?
Resolved: Healthy eating is a function of personal choice and should not involve government regulation.

Hank Cardello (Bio)
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

James O. Hill, PhD (Bio)
Executive Director
Anschutz Health and Wellness Center

Lisa Katic (Bio)
Principal
K Consulting, LLP

Margo G. Wootan, DSc (Bio)
Director, Nutrition Policy
Center for Science in the Public Interest

Moderators:
Anne Warhover, President and CEO, The Colorado Health Foundation
Chris Adams, President, Engaged Public

Registration – Longs Peak Foyer

Buffet Breakfast – Longs Peak Foyer & Terrace

Discovery Sessions – Grays Peak Rooms

The Workforce Future is Now: Team-Based Care
How will access to quality, cost effective care be ensured for everyone in the future? Team-based primary care offers the potential to dramatically improve the quality of care at a lower cost while tackling the question of how to better utilize our health care workforce. Projected health care workforce shortages, combined with a growing interest from payers to bundle payments and the push toward accountable care organizations has fostered continued discussions on team-based primary care. This interactive session will explore the opportunities and challenges with team-based primary care from the perspective of health professionals working in a care team model. The discussion will also explore training and retention of health care professionals to create a new generation of health professionals who are capable of working in efficiently functioning teams.

Facilitators:
Mark Earnest, MD, PhD, FACP – Director, Interprofessional Education, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Kriss Wittmann – Wittmann Studios

Participants:
Jason Williams, PsyD. MS Ed – Associate Director, REACH, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Liliana Garcia – Promotora, High Plains Community Health Center

Healthy Places: Equitable Communities as a Shared Value
According to the 2011 Colorado Health Report Card, Colorado's obesity rate rose from 19 to 22 percent between 2010 and 2011. With the increase, Colorado lost the distinction of being the only state in the nation with an adult obesity rate lower that 20 percent. Solutions are complex and require all sectors to work together. Research has shown that where people live, work and play can significantly impact their health. Attend this session to learn about efforts aimed at building communities that support healthy lifestyles and how to connect with other sectors in the movement to combating obesity.

Facilitator:
Richard Joseph Jackson, MD, MPH, FAAP – Professor, UCLA

Participants:
Dan Grunig – Executive Director, Bicycle Colorado
Kimball Crangle – Senior Developer, Denver Housing Authority
Kara Vonasek – Project Manager, Health Impact Project

The Colorado Health Benefit Exchange: A Roadmap to Accessible and Affordable Coverage
Uninsured and low-income people experience significant disparities in health care access and health outcomes. The Colorado Health Benefit Exchange presents an unprecedented opportunity to address this inequity by making health insurance more accessible, understandable and affordable for Coloradans. This panel discussion will provide an overview of progress on Exchange implementation to date and explore different perspectives on how the Exchange can and should work to increase access to adequate and affordable health coverage for Coloradans.

Facilitator:
Len Nichols, PhD – Director, Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, George Mason University

Participants:
Patty Fontneau – Executive Director, Colorado Health Benefit Exchange
Dede de Percin – Executive Director, Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
Steve ErkenBrack – President and CEO, Rocky Mountain Health Plans
A. Steve W. DelCastillo, PhD – President, Multicultural Leadership Center

Reception – Shavano and Longs Peak and Terraces, Keystone Conference Center

John Iglehart Award
The John Iglehart Award for Leadership in Health Policy is awarded annually to a Coloradan whose wisdom, commitment and leadership in health policy have made a significant contribution to the Foundation's vision that Colorado will be the healthiest state in the nation.

The award is named for John Iglehart, founding editor of Health Affairs and contributor to the New England Journal of Medicine. For more than 20 years, Iglehart was the driving force behind the Dorsey Hughes Symposium, now the Colorado Health Symposium.

Previous awardees are:
2011 – Joan Henneberry – Executive Director, Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
2010 – Jay Want, MD – President and CEO, Physician Health Partners, LLC
2009 – Bernie Buescher – Secretary of State, Colorado
2008 – William Lindsay III – President of Benefits Group, Lockton Companies, LLC
2007 – John Iglehart

Film Screening

Introductions
Charles Reyman
Vice President, Communications
The Colorado Health Foundation

T.R. Reid (Bio)
U.S. Healthcare: The Good News

Registration – Longs Peak Foyer

Buffet Breakfast – Longs Peak Foyer & Terrace