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Department of Health and Human Services
The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services

Agenda: June 15-17, 2011, Traverse City, MI

Sixty-Eighth Meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services

Park Place Hotel
300 East State Street
Traverse City, MI 49684
(231) 946-5000

Wednesday- June 15, 2011        
Torch and Leelanau Rooms

8:45 a.m.         Opening of the Meeting    
                        Ronnie Musgrove, Chair

                        Setting the Context for Michigan:

                        Jeff Taylor, Ph.D.
                        Executive Director and CEO, The Michigan Public Health Institute

                        Lonnie Barnett
                        Manager, Health Planning & Access to Care Section
                        Michigan Department of Community Health

                        John Barnas
                        Director, Michigan Center for Rural Health

10:00 a.m.       Question and Answer

10:30 a.m.       Break

10:45 a.m.       Panel One: The Impact of the ACA’s Value-Based Purchasing Demonstrations for Rural Hospitals

Dean Smith, Ph.D.
University of Michigan School of Public Health

Brian Peters
Executive Vice President, The Michigan Health and Hospitals Association

Question and Answer

12:15 p.m.       Lunch

1:30 p.m.         Panel Two: Primary Care Training and Placement

    Dr. Dan Webster
    Assistant Dean, College of Human Medicine
    Michigan State University

    Dr. Aron Sousa
    Associate Professor of Medicine and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
    Department of Medicine
    Michigan State University
    
    Question and Answer

3:00 p.m.         Break

3:15 p.m.         Subcommittee Breakouts

Aging Stakeholder Meeting Planning    
Crystal Room

Value-Based Purchasing Demonstrations
Leelanau Room

Primary Care Training and Placement
Torch Room

4:30 p.m.         Overview of Tomorrow’s Site Visits

4:45 p.m.         Public Comment

Thursday- June 16, 2011

8:45 a.m.         Meet in Hotel Lobby

9:00 a.m.         Briefing at Munson Medical Center    
                        Ed Ness, CEO, Munson Healthcare

10:00 a.m.       Depart for Site Visits

    Value-Based Purchasing Demonstrations Subcommittee: Cadillac, Michigan    
    Mercy Cadillac Hospital

    Primary Care Training and Placement: Kalkaska, Michigan
    Kalkaska Rural Health Clinic

    Aging Subcommittee: Rural Stakeholder Forum, Traverse City, Michigan
    Munson Medical Center

2:30 p.m.         Return to Traverse City
                        Subcommittee Discussions and Drafting Outline of White Papers

4:00 p.m.         Committee Discussion

4:45 p.m.         Call for Public Comment and Close of Meeting

Friday- June 17, 2011
Torch and Leelanau Rooms

8:45 a.m.         Review of Subcommittee Findings

                                    Value-Based Purchasing Demonstrations 
                                    Key Points and Timelines

                                    Primary Care Training and Placement     
                                    Key Points and Timelines

                                    Summary of Aging Stakeholder Meeting    
                                    Implications for Future Topics

9:45 a.m.         Letter to Secretary

10:00 a.m.       Discussion on September Meeting Topics

10:25 a.m.       Call for Public Comment

10:30 a.m.       Close of Meeting