Advocacy - Find a Way
In a just society, we must ensure that everyone has access to quality, affordable healthcare. We know that reforming America’s healthcare system isn’t going to be easy, but it can be done. We all have a role to play.
Saint Alphonsus Leads Community Forum to Find a Way
Demonstrating their continued leadership in advocacy for comprehensive health reform, Saint Alphonsus convened a forum entitled “Moving Idaho to a High Performance Health System.” Panelists and forum attendees actively engaged in a discussion about the need for current payment models to be redesigned, especially as they relate to compensating primary care providers for coordinating care across the continuum.
Pictured here: Corey Surber, Saint Alphonsus; Steve Schoenbaum, M.D., M.P.H., Executive Director of the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System; Stephen Weeg, Chair of Governor’s Select Committee on Healthcare
Mercy Medical Center - Sioux City Meets with Sen. Harkin about Find a Way
Jim Wharton, Director of Development and Public Policy at Mercy Medical Center – Sioux City and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) agree that We Must Find a Way to reform our health care system to achieve coverage and access for all in a cost-effective system of care.
Mercy Hospital Grayling and Rep. Stupak Agree "We must Find a Way"
Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) and Stephanie Riemer-Matuzak, CEO of Mercy Hospital Grayling are pictured together at Mercy Hospital Grayling. Congressman Stupak toured Mercy Hospital Grayling’s state of the art emergency department and shared his views on healthcare access and reform with hospital leadership.
“I am consistently impressed with Mercy Hospital Grayling’s technological capacities including the electronic medical record and the stroke robot capable of accessing the Michigan Stroke Network within minutes for vital patient care’ said Stupak.
St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Shows Sen. Levin How They are Finding a Way with Innovation
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and Jack Weiner, CEO of St. Joseph Mercy Oakland (SJMO) are pictured together at SJMO. During the month of August, the Senator visited both SJMO and Mercy Hospital Cadillac, where he saw first-hand how robots are improving access and care to stroke patients all over the state. The Senator expressed his support for broad-scale health reform and commended Trinity Health for building momentum for reform with its associates and community members.
