Seminar on Re-Envisioning Ethical Alternatives in Health Care:
Changing Health Policy Environment: Community Impacts, Initiatives
September 3, 1997
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
The Interchurch Center
Sockman Lounge, First Floor
475 Riverside Drive at 120th Street
New York, NY 10115
Dialogue-Openers Agenda:
I. Changing Health Policy Environment: Significance of Federal, State Medicaid Managed Care
Plan; New Policies, Funding, Budgets - Impacts on Health Care Systems, Workforce, Inner City Consumers
and Communities
Dr. Howard Berliner, Chair, Health Services, New School for Social Research, Policy Advisor to 1199 Health and
Human Services Employees Union
Eugene McCabe, President and CEO, North General Hospital
Dr. Joanne Lukomnik, Chair, Action Board, APHA; Former Member, Clinton Task Force
Lisa Montgomery, Representative of Judith Berek, Administrator, Region II, US Health Care Financing
Administration (HCFA)
Martha Orr, MN, RN, Executive Director of the NY State Nurses Association (NYSNA)
II. Community Impacts, Initiatives: Some Perspectives of Local Communities, Clergy, Congregations,
Essential Providers, Including--
Chris Molnar, Awilda Martinez, Community Service Society, Medicaid Managed Care Education Project
Rev. Diane Winley, Rev. Ron Winley, Long-time NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation Board Member --
Riverside Church Health and Wellness Ministry Committee
Dean Allan Formicola, Columbia School of Dental and Oral Surgery: Dentcare
Dr. Al Cohall, new Director, Harlem Hospital Prevention Center/Columbia Public Health
Ronda Kotelchuck, President, Primary Care Development Corporation
NCCCUSA/RCC Staff and Consultants: Rev. Carolyn Graham, Melina Hill Walker, Rev. Adolphus C. Lacey,
Rev. Marcel Welty: Liaison with Clergy, Congregations
II. What Else is Being Done: Action Review and Discussion
Dr. Oli Fein, New York Physicians for National Health Program - More on "Calls to Action"
Karen Timour, New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage - Empire Blue Cross
Rev. David Dyson, Long Island College Hospital Coalition (Brooklyn; w/NYSNA)
Gary Matthews, National Interreligious Working Conference Plans
Other State, Local Events, Actions; National UHCAN conference (October 3-5)
* RSVP, please…
* Light supper buffet $8.00
* To Pre-Register or For More Information:
* Resources for the Civic Conversation
* National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
* 475 Riverside Drive
* New York, New York 10115
* 212-870-3561 Fax 212-870-3341
* E-mail Registration
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