4-10-12 Feature Story:
The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers will present its annual conference entitled 'Community Health Centers at the Forefront: Improving Care, Controlling Costs and Engaging Patients' from Wednesday, May 9 - Friday, May 11 at the Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis.
Traffic Alert: Please beware that there is ongoing construction on the Sagamore Bridge, so plan your travel accordingly. For current traffic information, click here and select Sagamore Bridge Southbound or Northbound.
May 8: Special Pre-CHI Development Day
In addition, a special Pre-CHI Development Day will take place on Tuesday, May 8 from 10:30am-4:30pm. This Pre-CHI Development Day, as part of the League 2012 Webinar & Training Series: Maximizing Patient Services Revenue and Readiness for ICD-10, is for executive and senior management. It includes the following sessions:
- Charge Capture via EMR vs Data Entry: Making it Work
- ICD-10: Transition & Impact Analysis
- Leadership Top 10 Questions: Managing Financial Performance & Expectations
Click here for more information and to register for the Pre-CHI Development Day only (full CHI registation, including registering for the pre-CHI Development Day as an add-on option to the CHI, can be done by clicking on the blue CHI Registration button).
May 9-11: CHI Conference Highlights
This year's annual 3-day conference features leadership development and educational sessions geared to a broad range of health center staff. Speakers include:
- Commissioner John Auerbach, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Secretary JudyAnn Bigby, MD, Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services
- Adam Falcone, JD, Partner, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP
- Christie Hager, JD, MPH, Regional Director, United States Department of Health and Human Services
- Kaitlin McColgan, Director of Federal Affairs, National Association of Community Health Centers
- Suma Nair, MS, RD, Director, Office of Quality and Data, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration
- Sara Rosenbaum, JD, Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University
Please note: the League's Board meeting will be on Thursday, May 10.
Click here for an up-to-date Daily Program Schedule.
