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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20040716T010000
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SUMMARY:Private Healthcare Exchanges Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Private Healthcare Exchanges conference July 16-17 in Chicago will focus on how the Affordable Care Act is changing the way insurers sell health insurance. Instead of marketing almost exclusively to employers\, the ACA has forced insurers to focus on enrolling consumers. The conference is sponsored by Employee Benefit News.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/private-healthcare-exchanges-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121129T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121201T010000
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SUMMARY:International Council on Active Aging Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Many journeys\, many destinations\nFor adults ages 50 and older\, wellness is a way of living well. An enriched lifestyle provides opportunities for people to learn\, to grow and to engage as fully as possible in all of life’s dimensions. For organizations and professionals that serve older adults\, wellness can be a philosophy\, a culture\, a business model\, and a way to organize programs and facilities to support active aging. \nBecause it encompasses so much\, wellness has many journeys\, many destinations. Goals\, paths and preferences differ depending on the individual and the organization; so\, too\, do needs and interests. The International Council on Active Aging delivers a unique educational and networking event designed to meet both. \nEstablished in 2001\, ICAA leads\, defines and connects the active-aging industry. Seminars and workshops at the annual ICAA Conference address the many dimensions\, roles and needs in the industry. \nSee the website for a schedule\, registration and more information.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/international-council-on-active-aging-annual-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121203T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121203T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T160317Z
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SUMMARY:Atlanta Chapter: CDC response to meningitis outbreak
DESCRIPTION:The CDC’s John Jernigan\, M.D.\, M.S.\, clinical team lead on the Multistate Meningitis Outbreak and director of the CDC’s Office of Health Associated Infections Prevention Research and Evaluation will talk about the agency’s response to the multistate fungal meningitis outbreak. \nHealth journalists in the Atlanta area are invited to this event\, which will include the AHCJ Regional Health Journalism Fellows. \nWhen: Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. \nWhere:Emory Conference Center Hotel1615 Clifton Rd.Starvine 1 Room (South Wing)
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/atlanta-chapter-cdc-response-to-meningitis-outbreak/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121204T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121204T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T160316Z
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SUMMARY:Adapting to an aging society: Challenges and opportunities
DESCRIPTION:CoreTopics: Essential coverage areas for health journalists\n\nHealth Reform\nAging\nOral Health\nOther Topics\n\n\n \nClick here for a recording of the webcast and resources mentioned.\nWebcast explores aging adults’ contributions\, widening disparities\, creating ‘synthetic families’ \nToday\, Americans are living 30 years longer than their ancestors did just four generations ago. Yet policymakers have been slow to recognize the implications of this unprecedented increase in longevity. \nAs a result\, social institutions of all kinds – workplaces\, communities\, families\, educational organizations\, health care providers – haven’t yet adapted to the challenges and opportunities posed by America’s aging population. Nor is there any consensus over what successful adaptation might look like. \n\nAntonucci \nOlshansky \nZissimopoulos \n\nThe mission of the MacArthur Foundation Network on an Aging Society\, established in 2008\, is to articulate a framework that can guide effective responses to the aging of America and to promote policy options that help achieve this objective. \nIn this webcast\, on Dec. 4 at 4 p.m. ET\, three members of the MacArthur Network will discuss noteworthy trends and research in aging\, including a recent study on troubling disparities in life expectancy that was featured on the front page of The New York Times. Judith Graham\, AHCJ’s topic leader on aging\, will moderate. \nToni Antonucci is a research professor at the Life Course Development Program and the Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on social relations across the life span\, including multigenerational studies of the family and comparative studies of social relations across the life span in the United States\, Europe and Japan. \nS. Jay Olshansky is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, as well as a research associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The focus of his research has been estimates of the upper limits to human longevity; the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging; forecasts of the size\, survival\, and age structure of the population; and the pursuit of the scientific means to retard aging in peoples. \nJulie M. Zissimopoulos is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy at the University of Southern California. She is also the associate director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. She specializes in the economics of aging. Topics of special interest are medical expenditures at older ages\, savings and wealth\, labor force behavior\, and financial and non-financial support between generations of family members.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/adapting-to-an-aging-society-challenges-and-opportunities/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121205T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121205T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T160315Z
CREATED:20231103T153123Z
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SUMMARY:AHCJ Washington\, D.C.\, Chapter: Holiday happy hour
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to the Association of Health Care Journalists’ D.C. chapter’s Holiday Happy Hour! \nCome toast the holiday season with some fine wine and craft beer with other DC-area health reporters and editors. \nNo formal program – just a gathering of health journalists to tell war stories from 2012 and look forward to another crazy year in 2013.   \nWhen: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday\, Dec. 5 \nWhere: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation\, 1330 G Street NW (1/2 block west of Metro Center). Second Floor reception area. \nAll health journalists are invited. For those interested\, dinner will follow afterward at a nearby tavern. \nPlease RSVP by Dec. 3 to pgalewitz@kff.org
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/ahcj-washington-d-c-chapter-holiday-happy-hour/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121205T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121205T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T160313Z
CREATED:20231103T153124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160313Z
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SUMMARY:Cleveland-Akron Chapter Meet 'n Greet
DESCRIPTION:We are headed into the chilliest season of the year and at the Cleveland Association of Health Care Journalists’ Meet ‘n Greet you can get a head start on holiday chillin’ (and playing catch-up) at Cedar-Fairmount’s aptly named and cozy (dim lights\, scattered tables\, comfy couch) Fairmount Martini and Wine Bar. \n AHCJ will spring for light grazing (Fairmount’s delish cheese boards) and there’ll be happy-hour prices on the bar’s regular beers (and the night’s draft special\, too). If you feel like something with more of a kick\, try one of the bar’s “stiff pour” and excellent martinis. Scene Magazine says their like hasn’t been served in mainstream bars since the 1940s. \n You don’t have to be a member of AHCJ to come – in fact\, this is a chance to check out what the group is about\, talk with members and see if it’s your cup of tea. No pressure. Students interested in health writing welcome. \n Date: Wednesday\, Dec. 5 Time: 6 to 8 p.m. Where:  2448 Fairmount Blvd\,  Cleveland Heights\, OH 44106  Right where Fairmount and Cedar intersect (Here’s a map) Parking: Free\, well lighted lot behind bar (enter off Fairmount Blvd.) \n Please RSVP to Cleveland-Akron co-chapter leaders:  Eileen Beal (eojb@visn.net) or Carrie Buchanan ( cbuchanan@jcu.edu)
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/cleveland-akron-chapter-meet-n-greet/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121209T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121210T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T163036Z
CREATED:20231025T161304Z
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Aging: Now What? An Age Boom Academy Conference
DESCRIPTION:Learn from some of the nation’s top experts what lies ahead for Medicare and Medicaid now that election results are in. This is the subject of an upcoming AHCJ web chat\, but you’ll have even more opportunity to delve into the subject in-depth here. \nTwenty journalists will be accepted and hotel expenses will be covered.  For more information on the program and how to apply\, go to:http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/626-professional-reporting-fellows \nSponsored by: \n\n\nThe Columbia University Mailman School Of Public Health \n\n\nThe Columbia School of Journalism \n\n\nThe Atlantic Philanthropies
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/the-politics-of-aging-now-what-an-age-boom-academy-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121210T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121210T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T163035Z
CREATED:20231025T161309Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (in English and Spanish)
DESCRIPTION:An introduction to the HHS Office of Civil Rights in English and Spanish. The Office of Civil Rights will share information about what their office does\, how they can help faith and community leaders and will answer questions. \nThe HHS Partnership Center hosts a series of webinars for faith and community leaders. All webinars are open to the public and include a question and answer session where you can ask HHS staff any questions you may have. Please email your questions. After registering online you will receive an e-mail confirmation containing information about joining the webinar. Please send emails if you have registration problems.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/introduction-to-the-hhs-office-for-civil-rights-in-english-and-spanish/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121211T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121211T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T163034Z
CREATED:20231103T153124Z
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UID:25817-1355187600-1355187600@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Conference call: Launching Nursing Home Inspect 2.0
DESCRIPTION:ProPublica will launch a revamped news application featuring data organized in a way that makes it easier for reporters to write local stories about homes in their areas\, comparing them to one another and ranking states against others. \nProPublica’s Charles Ornstein and Lena Groeger will walk conference call participants through the beta version of the app and answer any questions. Stories produced from this data will be embargoed until Monday\, Dec. 17\, when the new site goes live. \nNursing Home Inspect allows people to search and analyze details of recent nursing home inspection reports from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Currently\, you can search by facility name\, the deficiency or by keyword. However\, the updated version incorporates new information about nursing home fines and aggregates deficiency and fine data at the home and state level. Reporters will be able to quickly determine the homes in their state with the most deficiencies\, as well as those who have been penalized the most.  \n The conference call will take place on Tuesday\, Dec. 11 at 3 p.m. ET. \nTo join the call\, sign up here and ProPublica will send you the details on how to participate. If you have any questions\, contact Mike Webb.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/conference-call-launching-nursing-home-inspect-2-0/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121212T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121212T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T163033Z
CREATED:20231025T161309Z
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SUMMARY:The Health Care Law 101
DESCRIPTION:The HHS Partnership Center hosts a series of webinars for faith and community leaders. All webinars are open to the public and include a question and answer session where you can ask HHS staff any questions you may have. Submit questions to ACA101@hhs.gov. After registering online you will receive an e-mail confirmation containing information about joining the webinar. Please contact if you have registration problems. \nA presentation on the main provisions in the Affordable Care Act\, the health care law\, and how to access care in your community.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/the-health-care-law-101/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121212T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121212T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T163033Z
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SUMMARY:(Webinar) Silver and Blue: The Unfinished Business of Mental Health Care for Older Adults
DESCRIPTION:WHAT:This unique survey of people age 65 and older with experience of depression reveals troubling shortfalls in the standard of care\, misconceptions about depression and anxiety\, older adults’ treatment preferences including integrated care and team care\, and first-person descriptions of the pain of depression. \nWHO: \n\nChris Langston\, PhD\, Program Director at the John A. Hartford Foundation  \nTresa Undem\, MA\, Partner at Lake Research Partners\nChristopher Callahan\, MD\, Cornelius & Yvonne Pettinga Professor of Medicine\, Indiana University School of Medicine and Director\, Indiana University Center for Aging Research\n\nWHEN:Wednesday\, December 12\, 2012 at 12 noon EST. Webinar runs one hour\, with opportunity for Q&A. \nWHERE:Online webinar with interactive Q&A: please go online and register.  \nHOW:This survey of 1\,318 adults 65 was conducted by Lake Research Partners using Knowledge Networks and has a margin of error is   3.9 percentage points. \nNOTE: The information in this survey is embargoed until December 13\, 2012 at 12:01AM.  \nFor more information\, please email Elliott Walker or call 917-846-6334.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webinar-silver-and-blue-the-unfinished-business-of-mental-health-care-for-older-adults/
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121212T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121212T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T163032Z
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SUMMARY:State health law implementation: Race to the starting line
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Chicago chapter of the Association of Health Care Journalists for a special event on Wednesday\, Dec. 12. \nThis panel discussion is sponsored by AHCJ\, the Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. \nModerator: Ed Howard\, executive vice president of the Alliance for Health Reform\, a nonpartisan\, nonprofit health policy group in Washington\, D.C. \nPanelists: \n\n\nBruce Japsen\, Forbes \n\n\nCristal Thomas\, deputy governor\, office of Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn \n\n\nSabrina Corlette\, research professor and project director at the Health Policy Institute at Georgetown University \n\n\nDavid DiLoreto\, M.D.\, chief clinical operations and innovation officer\, Presence Health \n\n\nTime: 6 p.m. refreshments; 6:30 p.m.  program \nLocation: Columbia College Journalism Department33 East Congress\, Room 219 (southwest corner of Wabash and Congress\, under the L tracks) \nLess than a year from now\, states must be ready to enroll millions of people in insurance exchanges\, as outlined in the 2010 health care overhaul law. Or\, the federal government will step in to do the job\, or part of it. States also have the option of opening their Medicaid programs to millions of new participants. But that’s not much time\, considering their long to-do lists. \n At least half a dozen Republican governors had delayed implementation efforts in hopes that the Supreme Court would rule the law unconstitutional\, or that Gov. Mitt Romney would win the November election and repeal the law. Neither happened\, but even if they decide now to run their own exchanges\, it will be difficult for those states _ and some others _ to be ready in time\, say health care experts. Illinois is seeking federal help with its exchange in 2014\, but is aiming to operate its own after that. \n States had to notify Washington by Nov. 16 whether they intended to run their own exchanges in 2014 and must submit plans on how they plan to do so by Dec. 14. By Jan. 1\, they must convince the Department of Health and Human Services that they are on track to be able to do it in time. At the same time\, insurance companies are scrambling to create new health plan products to sell on the exchanges\, but industry leaders complain they don’t have the necessary guidance and that time is running out. \n What information do the states still need from the federal government about how the federal and partnership exchanges will work? How much latitude will the states have to handle eligibility for Medicaid and to make sure that people transitioning between Medicaid and subsidized private insurance in the exchanges won’t have gaps in coverage? Can the federal government be ready with its own back-up exchanges? Will insurers be ready in time? \n This briefing will help you answer these questions for your readers\, viewers and listeners. \nPlease RSVP to Carla K. Johnson.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/state-health-law-implementation-race-to-the-starting-line/
CATEGORIES:None
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121218T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121218T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T163031Z
CREATED:20231025T161309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T163031Z
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SUMMARY:The Health Care Law 101 in Spanish
DESCRIPTION:The HHS Partnership Center hosts a series of webinars for faith and community leaders. All webinars are open to the public and include a question and answer session where you can ask HHS staff any questions you may have. Submit questions to ACA101@hhs.gov. After registering online you will receive an e-mail confirmation containing information about joining the webinar. Please contact if you have registration problems. \nA presentation in Spanish on the main provisions in the Affordable Care Act\, the health care law\, and how to access care in your community.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/the-health-care-law-101-in-spanish/
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