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Monday May 2, 2005
Mid-America Coalition on Health Care-Community Initiative on Depression — Build Best Practices Community Partnerships to Adopt Healthy Behaviors
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7:15 am
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8:15 am
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8:30 am
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- Update the latest depression research in the workplace: productivity, absenteeism, presenteeism, ROI on mental health benefits, disability
- Explain to stakeholders it is "safe" to tackle depression head-on based on worksite experiences of 15 employers and Blue Cross Blue Shield Kansas City
- Demonstrate why collaboration with other stakeholders is vital and how it can be accomplished
- Outline successful avenues for communicating with employees about depression
- Describe the breadth of non-traditional stakeholders involved with depression
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I .
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- Background of the Community Initiative on Depression:
Modifiable risk behaviors and selected depression
- Update on worksite depression research
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II .
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- Why survey employees?
- Design & distribution of survey
- Results of survey & employee reaction
- Projects that came out of the survey & Resurvey 2005
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- Why do health plans care about depression?
- Why engage in a wider project engaging employers, clinicians and the community?
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Kansas City Projects: coordination of care forms, drug compliance letter, OB/GYN packets, Member communication, Provider communication, Employee communication
- Results of depression initiative: drop in utilization/cost
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- Benefit Design Survey among participating employers
- Depression Diagnosis/Coding/Reimbursementovercoming barriers & resistance
- Screening depression in comorbidities
- Employee/Community Education, Clergy, Suicide, Community, Physician, National Outreach, Meetings with other cities
- American Psychiatric Association National Invitational Conference
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V .
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- Key drivers
- Partners
- Individual Components
- Entire Initiative
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10:00 am
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11:30 am
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11:30 am
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William L. Bruning
J.D., M.B.A.
President,
Mid-America Coalition on Health Care
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| The Coalition is a non-profit organization of large employers and all stakeholders in Kansas City’s regional health care delivery system, working together to improve the health and wellness of the region’s citizens. Bruning has an extensive medical-legal background, representing physicians in malpractice litigation, managing the legal aspects of a large corporate benefits program, and serving as president of a hospital system board and member of the boards of an HMO and a multi-specialty physicians group. Complimenting his professional career, he has served on the boards of over three dozen non-profit organizations in the fields of health care, historic preservation and education. |
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Norman A. Clemens
M.D.
Clinical Professor, Case Western Reserve;
Chair, American Psychiatric Association Committee on Business Relations
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| Norman A. Clemens, M.D., Chairs the Committee on APA/Business Relations of the American Psychiatric Association, in which he has served as a Trustee and Speaker of the Assembly, as well as chair of the Commission on Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in Case Western Reserve University and President of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, with extensive experience in the education of medical students, psychiatric residents, psychoanalysts in training, and parish clergy. He has been engaged in efforts to build partnerships between psychiatrists and the business community for over 20 years. Dr. Clemens is in the private practice of psychiatry in Cleveland, Ohio.
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David M. Evans
Director of Compensation and Benefits
Cerner Corporation
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| He is responsible for Cerner’s global compensation and benefits strategy delivering HR solutions to support Cerner’s growing business and dynamic culture. Key compensation and benefits programs include market-based compensation, incentives, equity, health, life, and retirement plans. He is currently focused on the development of an on-site primary care clinic and pharmacy that is scheduled to open in 2005 on Cerner’s North Kansas City World Headquarters campus. David has an Economics degree from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He is also actively involved in the Mid-America Coalition for Health Care.
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John Heryer
M.D.
Medical Director
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Kansas City
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| He continues as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Following 20 years of clinical practice he is currently actively involved in corporate wellness, underwriting, physician profiling and population medicine. Currently he is the Chairman of the Missouri Association of Health Plans Medical Directors Council. He participated in the development of city-wide guidelines in Kansas City for diabetes, asthma, heart failure and depression. He is a member of the Director’s Circle of the American Cancer Society’s Heartland Division. This is a partnership with employers pursuing goals of decreasing the incidence and mortality of cancer while improving the supportive services.
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