Kentucky 45th in the
Nation for Healthcare

Source The Commonwealth Fund

Agenda - Total of 6 hrs - November 20^th, 2008
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Registration: 7:30 am

AM:  Never Events and Patient Protection
8:45-9:00	Opening Remarks & Welcome	Kevin T Kavanagh, MD, MS
9:00-9:10	Patient Perspective - Hospital Acquired Infections	Orv Hazelton
9:10-9:50	State Boards and Patient Protection	Panel of Board Executives
9:50-10:15	Nurse to Patient Ratios and Their Impact on the Prevention of Never Events.	Zeni Cortez, RN
10:15-10:25	Questions & Answers
10:25-10:40	Break
10:40-11:05	Public Reporting of MRSA and HAI	Lisa McGiffet - Consumer Reports
11:05-11:30	Multi-Resistant Drug Organisms & Hospital Acquired Infections.	Kraig Humbaugh, MD, MPH
11:30-12:00	Medicare payment of "Never Events"	Ken Connor, JD
12:00-12:15	Questions & Answers
12:15-1:00	Box Lunch
PM:  Transparency and Competition
1:00-1:30	Transparency in Healthcare -- US Dept HHS	Nancy Wilson, MD, MPH - US DHHS
1:30-1:55	KY Health Care Transparency Effort	Carrie Banahan KY DHFS &
	Implementation of HB 44	State Representative Tom Burch
1:55--2:20	Medical Tourism	Rudy Rupak, MD
2:20-2:35	Questions & Answers
2:35-2:50	Break
2:50-3:15	The Certificate of Need -- History and Impact on Healthcare.	Kevin Kavanagh, MD, MS
3:15-3:40	Legislative Review of Proposed Healthcare Laws in the 2007-2008 KY Legislature:         SB 183, HB 602 and HB 109.	Lisa McGriffert, Zeni Cortez, Bernie Vonderheide.
3:40-4:00	Closing Remarks & Summation	Marvin Feit, PhD
4:00-4:15	Questions & Answers

Note:  Due to unforeseen circumstances agenda & speakers may change without notice.

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