Speaker Suggestions

[bschwartz]

This thread is for us to throw out ideas about who we think would be good speakers and what main topics we should consider.

Hit Reply and post your thoughts.

[dprest]

I am not sure if you are planning to start a new thread for ideas on what groups to outreach for membership, but I had a few suggestions. Considering I am fairly new to the coalition myself, some of these may already be involved but here a few ideas.
* Commission on Quality of Care & Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities
www.cqc.state.ny.us (http://www.cqc.state.ny.us)
* Consumers Union
* American Council on Science & Health
* Center for Justice & Democracy
* National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals & Consumers Inc.
* Certain schools of Gerentology (I know Brookdale Center has an SMP program that targets the Chinese and Korean population)

As far as speakers go, it was difficult to hear on the phone what direction you were planning on taking with the targeted audience. If you are planning to go with professionals, maybe CMS could do something on updates to Medicare or new initiatives. I will keep thinking of more ideas and continue to post them here.

[bschwartz]

Deana...great suggestions...I will add the ones that Amy Bernstein emailed to me today:

Thoughts for new people/groups for the collaboration:
Susan Dooha, JD
Executive Director, CIDNY [Center for Independence of the
Disabled in New York]
841 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
Karyn Krampitz
Coalition of Mental Health Organizations
Kkrampitz@coalitionny.org
Andrew Koski, VP
Home Care Association of New York State
194 Washinton Ave.
Albany, NY 12210
518-426-8764

We're on the right track...keep those ideas coming!!!

[sahod]

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"The Journey Toward Developing a World Class Quality Management Organization"
"Moving the Needle on Quality"
"Measuring Quality: Composite Metrics"
"Quality - Driven Health System Transformation"
"Quality as a Strategic Advantage in Your Market"
"Technology as an Enabler in the Quality Transformation"Our perspectives on these topics are based on our experiences with a wide variety of hospitals and health systems across the country. If you are interested in seeing our perspectives on improving healthcare quality (http://mavhc.com), or viewing our background and experience, please feel free to visit our website.