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Good afternoon, well get started while ruth is getting taped. Im elliott gurstein and delighted to see you all today. You know we dont usually start quite this promptly but were not always being taped live by cspan. Were delighted to have them here today. And this is a particularly exciting entry in our longstanding Public Health rounds sponsored by our Health Society and medicine program. The focus today is the inaugural report of the aspen Health Strategy group. The name Health Strategy group is taken from the aspen Strategy Group for those who are familiar with American Foreign policy. Prob...

President scott. Here. Vice president lim. Here. Supervisor farrell. Here. Commissioner ferrigno. Here. Commissioner follansbee here. Commissioner sass here. We now have a quorum. We will now take item number one. Item number one is the approval of theminutes of the regular meeting of august 11, 2016. Are there any Public Comment . All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. The minutes are adopted [gavel] item 2. Item 2 is gen. Public comment on items that are not on todays agenda. Are there any Public Comments on items that are not on todays agenda . I only have a few minutes but i did want t...

Robust managed care environment, the consultant engagement helped us identify a few key foundational infrastructure elements that we must have in place in order to be successful. And you see those listed here. The first we just talked about, which is having an Enterprise Electronic Health record. The second is organizational intelligence, which is a proprietary software, which is a Cost Accounting system that allows us to cost out services particularly at our acute Care Trauma Center that we will need in order to set contracting rates. The third, which is Network Operations integration, we hav...

Edward a chow, Cecilia Chung Judith Karshmer david pating and all those in favor say aye; all those opposed say no. I have one addition. That would be under the gift report and after the comment on the action taken if you would note that if i had said to the chair that we would be sending these notes to these organization it would then record that we actually normally would be doing that. If that is okay. In addition, i see that we have approved the minutes with the addition and just to be sure all those in favor just say aye, all those opposed say no. You have the directors report in front of...

Communities as many different types both cultures and ethnicities to actually guide us so one of the things were working on through the longterm coordinating council is really thinking what it means to do a Needs Assessment in the community and the particular concerns in the community that are culturally relevant so were thoughtful and sensitive communicator on what Palliative Care can offer and [inaudible] is put forward as one of the poster children for having the conversation out there for people becoming comfortable talking about their wishes for the future if they become seriously ill. La...