Save the Date!

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd

Save the date for Oregon Health Forum's 2008 conference! Meanwhile, learn more about what we did last year:

2007 Conference agenda To download various speaker's presentations, scroll down to the speaker list.

Last year's dynamic conference was attended by over 300 industry professionals. Throughout the day, we explored public and private partnerships within today's health system, and even proposed new partnerships during the Partnership Challenge.

$10,000 Grant goes to:

A partnership between the Central Oregon Health Collaborative and the Oregon Coalition of Health Care Purchasers that will promote wellness and health behavior change programs in small firms that cannot support such programs on their own. The Oregon Coalition of Health Care Purchasers will work with the Central Oregon Health Collaborative and other partner organizations to develop, plan, and pilot the project in Deschutes County.

From left: Jennifer Smith, Oregon Health Forum; Mike Bonetto, Laura Brennan, and Alisha Hopper, Central Oregon Health Collaborative; Barbara Prowe, Oregon Coalition of Health Care Purchasers; Carol Robinson, Oregon Health Forum; Chris DeMars, Northwest Health Foundation; Abby Christopher, Oregon Health Forum

$1,000 Facilitation Grants go to:

1. A partnership between the Oregon Health Career Center, Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Legacy Health Systems, Willamette Dental Group, Aon Consulting, Oregon Department of Human Services Department of Medical Assistance Programs, and Multnomah County Health Department that will improve health by (a) helping high school students become educated health care consumers by providing educational opportunities to learn about basic prevention, how and when to access care, and the relationships between health insurance, health care delivery, and medical care, and (b) stimulating interest in health careers by offering observational and mentoring opportunities for high school students.
2. A partnership between the OHSU Center for Women’s Health, the Department of Human Services Office of Health Systems Planning, OHSU Dentistry School, local health departments, ODS, Oregon Dental Association, Oregon Medical Association, Oregon Nursing Association, State Naturopathic Association, OHSU’s Department of Informatics and Medical Epidemiology, and third-party payors that will improve health by developing a dental screening tool, educating medical providers about the tool, using the tool in the Center for Women’s Health.
3. A partnership between the Governor’s office, Department of Human Services Office of Health Policy and Research and Office of Health Systems Planning, Oregon Business Association, Oregon Business Council, Oregon Health Care Purchasers, and health plans that will improve health by engaging Oregon and Oregonians to support and choose healthy behavior by accepting the healthiest state in the nation challenge from Washington state.
4. A partnership between the Northeast Oregon Network, Elgin Clinic, Eastern Oregon/OHSU, OHSU’s Office of Rural Health, Department of Human Services Office of Health Systems Planning, PacificSource, Center for Human Development at Eastern Oregon University, cities of Baker, Union and Wallowa, tribal government, Association of School Nurses, and the School-Based Health Care Network that will improve health by maintaining access to health care and exploring the potential to increase access through engaging the community and developing a sustainability plan.
5. A partnership between the Governor’s Office, Quality Corp., Oregon Health Action Campaign, Oregonians for Health Security, Oregon Coalition of Health Care Purchasers, CareOregon, Acumentra, Department of Human Services Public Health Division, and the Medicaid Advisory Committee that will improve health by evaluating what real consumers in Oregon want with regard to a health care delivery system and feeding this information to relevant policy bodies such as the Oregon Health Fund Board.

Keynote speaker:  Paul Starr, PhD  Pulitzer Prize-winning  author and former  White House advisor on  health policy | Bio  To request a printed copy  of Dr. Starr's presentation,  please email us.

A program for providers, employers, policymakers and business leaders alike, Oregon Health Forum’s 2007 annual conference examined public and private collaborations in health care.

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