By Cynthia Michael
As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) moves forward in 2014, there is much to learn and discuss about health care reform. In an effort to begin that dialogue, the Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum will host a fall summit, “Health Care Reform and You: Professional Viewpoints,” on October 31 at the Marriott Hotel in Baton Rouge. This event will provide insight from various stakeholders on the impact of health care reform in Louisiana.
Sheila P. Burke, Senior Public Policy Advisor with Baker Donelson’s
Washington, DC, office, will serve as the keynote speaker. In addition to her
role at Baker Donelson, Burke serves as a faculty member at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University where she teaches a health policy
course and co-directs a public policy simulation exercise. She is also a
faculty research fellow at Harvard’s Malcolm Weiner School for Social Policy, a
Research Professor at the Public Policy Institute and Distinguished Visitor at
the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown
University. Her distinguished career includes 19 years on Capitol Hill where
she served as Deputy Staff Director of the Finance Committee, Chief of Staff to
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Secretary of the Senate. In these roles,
she was involved with numerous legislative issues including those related to
Medicare, Medicaid, Maternal and Child Health programs, welfare reform, budget
reconciliation and previous legislative efforts to reform health care.
Burke’s career also includes a seven-year tenure as Deputy Secretary and Chief
Operating Officer of the Smithsonian Institution with responsibility for the
overall operations of the 19 individual museums and galleries, the National Zoo
and nine research facilities.
The fall summit will also feature Quality Forum Board Member Donna D. Fraiche,
Esq., attorney with Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, who
will lead a panel discussion among David Callecod, President and CEO of
Lafayette General Health System; Ray Peters, Vice-President of Roy O. Martin
Lumber Company and President of the Quality Forum Board of Directors; Vincent
Culotta, M.D., President of the Louisiana State Medical Society; and Carol
Solomon, President and CEO of Peoples Health. Mike Bertaut, Health Care
Economist with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, will be the closing
speaker.
As health care continues to evolve, both in Louisiana and the rest
of the nation, it is important that we all take an active role in the
conversation about the impact of health care reform on consumers, businesses
and health care providers, payers and organizations. We encourage you to attend
this event to learn more about health care reform in our state.
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