Spring Meeting

Designing the future of health Care

March 8 - 9, 2019 | Hyatt Regency, Long Beach, CA

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Why attend?

CHCF alumni are in unique positions to impact health care throughout California. The CHCF Alumni Spring Meeting will provide you with educational content, new strategies, networking opportunities, and motivation to tackle the big issues and design the future of health care.

Engaging keynotes on equity and diversity and provider resiliency will leave you with concrete applications to enhance your work. Breakout sessions, led by CHCF alumni, will allow you to learn from your peers and create partnerships across health care sectors.

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Keynote on Equity, Diversity and inclusion

Friday, March 8th: 9:45am - 10:45am

Healing & Systems Change for a More Equitable California

Lauren Padilla-Valverde, The California Endowment

A seasoned leader in the development of systems change to address inequities, Lauren has 25 years of experience as a clinician and academic. To address the structural root causes of health inequities at the grassroots and system level, Lauren brings a healing informed, racial equity lens to develop the leadership of those most impacted by systemic inequities. Her vision for racially equitable systems change is influencing philanthropy. Read more.

breakout session A:

Friday, March 8th: 11:00am - 12:15pm

Ayanna Bennett

The Black African American Health Initiative

The lessons learned in the formation and expansion of a health initiative focused on the residents with worst health outcomes in San Francisco, our shrinking African American population. The initiative has used many strategies including targeted universalism and collective impact. The lessons learned illuminate a host of tensions and challenges that must be resolved in order to make real progress on these seemingly intractable problems

Eliza Gibson

Democratizing Digital Health: The Use of Evidence + Advocacy in Driving Public and Private Coverage

Coverage from both public and private payers is critical to the success of digital health. Companies need to deliver interventions and solutions that are clinically effective, and activate channels where those interventions are covered for all populations that need them.

Lydia Mata

Readmission Reduction

Five years ago, we were presented with the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of 275 high needs patients who accounted for <80% of readmissions in Fresno County. Through three years of lessons learned, we were able to develop a strategy to help reduce readmissions by 19%, increase engagement in CM by 40%, and increase compliance with post discharge care by 35%. This strategy has become a best practice which has scaled statewide to Butte, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Alameda, and Tulare counties.

breakout session b:

Friday, March 8th: 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Elisa Chavez

Developing a Dental Benefit in Medicare - What and What Will it Take?

Dr. Chavez will provide an overview of the oral health care needs of older adults in California and nationwide. She will outline recent efforts of groups such as The Santa Fe Group, Oral Health America, The DentaQuest Foundation, The American Dental Association and others to explore the interest in and the possibility and benefits of improving access to oral healthcare for older Americans, through the inclusion of a dental benefit in Medicare. This will include the rationale for inclusion in Part B and descriptions of some proposed models.

Christine Tyler

Integrated Behavioral Healthcare in the Post-Incarceration Setting

This presentation will describe the Santa Clara County Reentry Resource Center's health care deliver model including integrated behavioral health care, the use of community health workers, and a recent expansion doubling the number of staff.

Maria Ureña

Start with the Heart (TM): Connecting with the Most Vulnerable Population: From Hopeless to Hopeful

Alice Duer Miller says “listening means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us” as professionals in the medical and behavioral health fields that is our responsibility and if we become good at it, it has transformative power in the lives of our patients/clients. The behavioral health specialty was instituted at DaVita Integrated Kidney Care to assist in managing a vulnerable, special needs population. This presentation aims to explore and inform other professionals in the value of connecting on a human level with our patients, understanding what distresses them and how to achieve wellness despite these distresses.

breakout session C:

Friday, March 8th: 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Claire Horton

Whole Person Care Pilot Programs

*Co-presenting with Sara Levin*
Will Whole Person Care Pilot programs transform what services are considered necessary to deliver quality health care to Medi-Cal recipients? The overarching goal of the Whole Person Care (WPC) Pilots is the coordination of health, behavioral health, and social services, as applicable, in a patient-centered manner with the goals of improved beneficiary health and wellbeing through more efficient and effective use of resources.

Sara Levin

Whole Person Care Pilot Programs

*Co-presenting with Claire Horton*
Will Whole Person Care Pilot programs transform what services are considered necessary to deliver quality health care to Medi-Cal recipients? The overarching goal of the Whole Person Care (WPC) Pilots is the coordination of health, behavioral health, and social services, as applicable, in a patient-centered manner with the goals of improved beneficiary health and wellbeing through more efficient and effective use of resources.

Laura Miller

Care Neighborhood - Addressing the Needs of Complex Patients

Starting as a small grant-funded project to address the social needs of medical complex patients in our network, Care Neighborhood has grown and now serves people who qualify for Whole Person Care and for Health Homes. Keys to success include our patient-centered approach, strong data analytics, a passionate central team, CHW training and support and our FQHC partners.

Robert Moore

Payment and Service Integration of Addiction Treatment in MediCal

Partnership HealthPlan is working with the California Department of Healthcare Services to integrate treatment of Substance Use Disorders into the MediCal Managed Care Delivery System. Discussion will include the business case for integration, the scope of services included, and concurrent activities being done through the physical and mental health delivery systems. Innovative approaches and challenges will be discussed.

breakout session d:

Saturday, March 9th: 9:00am - 10:15am

Peter Currie

Adapting DCPI's Integrated Complex Pain Care into Complex Primary Care for Health Homes

Inland Empire Health Plan selected Desert Clinic Pain Institute as their Multi-Specialty Group Practice for their new "Health Homes" program designed to meet the needs of High Need/High Cost Medi Cal patients. Unlike Primary Care settings DCPI has focused on developing Transdisciplinary Team Care for Complex Pain Populations that have not succeeded within Primary Care, Pain Specialty Treatment or SUD Treatment settings.

Jocelyn Freeman-Garrick

Beyond Stocks and Bonds - The Pathway to Diversify the Health Professions

In 2017, the US Census reported the racial/ethnic breakdown of the population as 60.7% white, 18.1% Hispanic/Latino, 13.4% black, 5.8% Asian, 1.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and 2.7% mixed race. While Blacks, Hispanics/Latinos, American Indians (AI), Pacific Islanders (PI), Alaskan Natives (AN), and Native Hawaiians (NH) make up 33% of the US population, they are underrepresented minorities (URM) in multiple medicine disciplines (physician, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry and health tech careers).

Rafael Gonzalez-Amezcua

A Tool to Understand the Context of High Need High Cost Patients for Effective Interventions

High need high cost patients often present like a "tornado" of competing needs, burdening providers and staff along the way. I will present a method, Multi Health Determinant Integrator, that serves as a platform to help untangle these competing needs and build an effective care plan.

Keynote on Operationalizing Resiliency

Saturday, March 9th: 10:45am - 11:45am

Naomi Fuchs, Santa Rosa Community Health

Naomi Fuchs has served as the Chief Executive Officer for Santa Rosa Community Health (SRCH) since 2001. In October 2017, the Northern California wildfires destroyed SRCH’s Vista Campus, which was the medical home for 24,000 patients. Naomi will share SRCH’s response to the event, its road to recovery and resiliency of the organization and staff during and after this tragic event. Read more.

Conference Logistics

cONFERENCE pRICING:

Early Bird Rate: $90.00 from December 7th - January 18th

Regular Registration: $120.00 from January 19th - March 1st

Registration closes March 1, 2019

Ticket includes:

CME/CEU's
Overnight hotel room
Food and beverage
Educational content
Networking opportunities

accommodations:

Hyatt Regency, Long Beach

200 S. Pine Avenue

Long Beach, CA 90802

(562) 491-1234

Questions regarding lodging? Contact Christina Travlos at Christina.Travlos@ucsf.edu

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