Finding Solutions

This one-day conference will help you respond to the damaging cuts in federal funding for patient care, scientific research, and disaster preparedness. It’s a day of sharing practical actions others are taking to mitigate this crisis. Four workshops will define the problems and compile action steps.

We all know that healthcare in America is political, and this conference comes at an especially crucial time for action — just seven weeks before the mid-term elections. As healthcare providers, our patients and we are on the receiving end of political decisions that may seem beyond our control.  We work every day at the collision point between political decisions that cut healthcare and the bottom-up reality facing patients who need our help.

We Are Stronger Together: Sign Up Now

Attend this conference in person or online.

• Learn from four workshops that go right to the point and build action steps for all to share.
• Sign on to a Declaration on America’s Rural Healthcare Crisis to be issued to Congress, the White House, and other elected leaders.
• Take advantage of our 50% scholarship for Registered Emergency Workers.
• Potentially, obtain continuing professional education credits that are in the application stages.
• Have lunch with your colleagues, included for those who register to attend in-person in Tacoma

Hosted by:

Vashon Island Medical Reserve Corps

VashonBePrepared

University of Washington Office of Rural Programs

Washington Area Health Education Center

The United States today, as we are all aware, appears to be in a healthcare crisis with increasing healthcare costs, increasing healthcare demands by Americans, a shrinking number of working physicians, a growing trend of Wall Street health system mergers and acquisitions, the increasing trend of de-personalizing the physician-patient experience prompting worsening patient satisfaction while at the same time embracing artificial intelligence to replace many common physician tasks and duties in the name of “efficiency”. 

– Ed Lopez PA-C, Washington Medical Commission

Agenda

AM Plenary: America’s Rural Healthcare Crisis (speaker TBA)

AM Workshop (choose 1)

• • Vaccinations and Public Health Effectiveness — Jim Bristow, MD, moderator
  • Cuts to Medicaid and Closing Rural Clinics and Hospitals — Wendy Noble, ARNP, moderator

Lunch / Networking

PM Workshop (choose 1)

• • Compounding Deficiencies in Mental Health Services — Rebecca Chavez, PhD, moderator
  • Public Health Responses Without a Reliable Federal Partner— Rick Wallace, moderator

PM Plenary: Next Steps: Putting it together and moving forward

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