Georgia Department of Public Health

Health Care Partnership/Collaboration Summit

Wesleyan College

4760 Forsyth Rd., Macon, GA, 31210

August 31, 2016

8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Terri Dumas, MPH, Deputy Director, Division of District and County Operations – Presiding

Objectives:

1. Describe the importance and benefit of public health partnerships for improving access to care. 2. Identify the contributing factors that characterize meaningful and sustainable partnerships. 3. Recognize exemplary public health partnerships. 4. Foster the replication of partnerships which help to improve access to care.

8:00 am Registration and Coffee *Food and beverages are NOT allowed in the chapel area.

8:20 am Opening Remarks Terri Dumas, MPH, Deputy Director, Division of District and County Operations

8:30 am Greetings from Partners Hosting the Summit Teresa Kochera, DNP, RN, PCCN, CN, Director of Nursing Simulation, Wesleyan College

Sirena Fritz, RN, MS Nursing Division Director, Wesleyan College

Anita L. Barkin, MSN, DrPH, APRN-C, District Nursing Director, North Central Health District

8:45 am Greetings from the Commissioner Brenda Fitzgerald, M.D., Commissioner, Georgia Department of Public Health

8:55 am Keynote Address: Partnerships for Improving Access to Care: Why They Are Critical

Introduction of Keynote Speaker by David Bayne Keynote Speaker: Representative Larry J. (Butch) Parrish

9:25 am Georgia Department of Public Health Telehealth Partnerships

Suleima Salgado, Director, DPH Telehealth Program

Suephy Chen, MD, Dermatologist, Emory University

9:50 am Break

10:05 am Panel 1 – Established and Long Term Partnerships (Moderator: Tom Wade)

Introductions

Good Samaritan Health Center of Cobb

Northeast Georgia Medical Center/North Health District/The Longstreet Clinic

South Georgia Partnership for Health (SGPH)

Albany Primary Health Care (FQHC) and Southwest Health District

House of Dawn, Inc./Clayton County BOH

Madison County Teen Pregnancy Prevention Coalition/Northeast Health District

Q&A

Austin Tull, Representative, Good Samaritan Health Center

Mimi Collins, Executive Director, The Longstreet Clinic

John Sparks, Executive Dir., South GA Partnership for Health

James Hotz, MD, Clinical Director, Albany Area Primary Health Care

Dawn Murray, Founder and CEO, House of Dawn

Pam Smith, Northeast Health District, District Nursing Director

11:20 am TRANSITION TO OVAL HALL

11:40 am Lunch

12:25 pm TRANSITION BACK TO THE CHAPEL

12:45 pm Keynote Address: CDC’s 6/18 Initiative and Introduction of Keynote Speaker by James Howgate,

Using Partnerships to Increase Access to Care Chief of Staff Keynote Speaker: Laura Seeff, MD, Director of CDC’s Office of Health System Collaboration, Office of the Associate Director for Policy, Center for Disease Control and Prevention

1:15 pm Panel 2 – HIV, Prenatal and Oral Health Partnerships (Moderator: Brenda Greene)

Introductions

Oral Health Partnership/South Central Health District

Comprehensive AIDS Resource (CARE), Inc./Southeast Health District

Mothers Offering Resources and Education (MORE program)/DeKalb County BOH

Q&A

Debra Smith, MD, Oral Health Director, South Central Health District

Shelby Freeman, Wellness Program Manager, Southeast Health District

Kassie Bennett, MORE Supervisor, DeKalb County BOH

1:55 pm Panel 3 – Capacity Building Partnerships (Moderator: J. Patrick O’Neal, MD)

Introductions

Gwinnett Medical Center Residency Program

Project LAUNCH: Maternal and Child Health Program, West Central Health District, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) and New Horizons

GA Volunteer Health Care Program/East Central Health District

Q&A

Alana Sulka, Director of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, East Metro Health District Jeannine Galloway, Project Director, Maternal and Child Health

Linda Graves, County Nurse Manager, Columbia County Health Department

2:35 pm Break

2:45 pm Panel 4 – New Partnerships (Moderator: Emily Eisenman)

Introductions

West Central Georgia Community Transformation Collective

Primary Healthcare Center/Northwest Health District

Houston County Health Department Prenatal Clinic

The Georgia Clinical Transformation Team/Chronic Disease

Northwest Georgia Healthy Babies

Fulton County/Partnerships to Improve Community Health

Curtis V. Cooper Primary Healthcare/Coastal Health District

Q&A

Regina Abbott, Executive Director of Spalding County Collaborative

Malindy Ely, Polk County Nurse Manager, Polk County Health Department

Cristina Sikes, County Nurse Manager, Houston County Health Department

Shana Scott, JD, MPH, Chronic Disease Health Systems Program Manager, GA DPH

Gregory Dent, Exec. Dir. of the NW GA Healthcare Partnership

Lisa Goodin, Health Program Administrator, Fulton County Health Department

Cristina Gibson, Chronic Disease Prevention Director, Coastal Health District

4:10 pm Access to Care Advisory Group: Development of State Health Improvement Plan

Introduction of Speaker by Carole Jakeway, Director, Chief Nurse, Director of District and County Operations

Angela L. Haynes DNP, FNP-BC, MPH Family Nurse Practitioner Consultant

4:20 pm Closing Remarks

4:30 pm Adjourn