The changing health care landscape will be the focus of the 19th Conference on the Small City and Regional Community, to be held at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Themed “Providing Health Care to Small Cities and Rural Areas,” the conference begins at 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, in the Dreyfus University Center. It concludes at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 18.
The conference is offered free of charge and is open to the public, with on-site registration in the concourse of the Dreyfus University Center. It is part of UW-Stevens Point’s Healthy Communities Initiative, which focuses on public-private partnerships that help provide first-rate university professional programs in health care and wellness.
“The purpose of the conference is to encourage more discussion about health care policy and thereby inspire local knowledge and education related to the changing health care environment,” said Bob Wolensky, a UW-Stevens Point professor of sociology and co-director of the Center for the Small City.
The conference will feature three keynote speakers and more than 40 other panelists. The featured speakers are:
Richard Cooper, M.D., director of the Center for the Future of Healthcare Workforce at the New York Institute of Technology and former dean and director of the Medical College of Wisconsin, speaking on “Who Will Care for Tomorrow’s Children (and their Parents)?”
Professor Ira Moscovice, Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota, and director of the Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center, on “The Impact of Health Care Reform on Rural Health”
Professor Patrick Remington, M.D., M.P.H., Department of Population Health Sciences and associate dean for Public Health, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, on the topic, “Can Rural Counties Rule in Health Rankings?”
In 11 concurrent sessions, panelists will address topics such as mental health, health care technology, hospice and palliative care, insurance issues, women and minorities’ health, recruitment of health care professionals, medical training and oral health.
Co-sponsors are the UW-Stevens Point Center for the Small City and College of Letters and Science as well as Ministry Health Care and Delta Dental. The Small Cities conference was founded at
UW-Stevens Point in 1978. For more information, contact Wolensky at rwolensk@uwsp.edu or go to www.uwsp.edu/cols-ap/smallCity.
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