2008 Primary Care Summit

The Connecticut Care for Primary Care, (CCPC), hosted an educational and action-oriented summit to investigate and develop consensus around these issues. CCPC assembled a day-long conference, the Primary Care Summit, on November 5, 2008. Our foremost aim was to bring together the regional interests in primary care. Discussion revolved around strategies and initiatives to help resolve the crisis in Connecticut and nation-wide.

The Primary Care Summit was a venue for primary care leaders, clinicians, hospital administrators, managed care representatives, interested public policy stakeholders and advocates, to formulate strategies for the advancement of primary care and appropriate health system reform for the state of Connecticut. We hosted 130 attendees for the event at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.

The day-long conference consisted of plenary sessions from primary care leaders and group breakout sessions to discuss and strategize specific primary care topics. The actual conference agenda for the First Annual Primary Care Summit is below. Please click speaker names to read their biographies. Click the highlighted session titles to view the speaker presentations.

1st Annual Primary Care Summit Agenda - November 5, 2008

Time	Session
8:00 – 8:30	Registration, Full Breakfast, Networking
8:30 – 8:45	Welcome and Overview Jonathan Rosen, MD, Chairman of CCPC
8:45 – 9:45	Primary Care in the United States – Setting the Stage James King, MD, President of AAFP
9:45 – 10:00	Break
10:00 – 11:00	Systems Redesign and Quality Challenges for Connecticut Primary Care Chuck Kilo, MD, MPH, FACP
11:00 – 12:00	ROI of the North Carolina Experience with primary care models for Medicaid patients Elizabeth C. Tilson, MD, MPH (other materials: support policies; provider-reports)
12:00 – 12:30	Buffet Lunch and Networking: Pick up your lunch and bring it into your Breakout room
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch and Learn Interactive Breakout Sessions:
Room – 21 Tom Agresta, MD Charles Huntington III PA, MPH Dave Henderson, MD	1. Where are the Primary Care Practitioners for the 21st century? What effects will projected demographics with the aging population, decreased graduates entering primary care fields, increase of hospitalists and the use of mid-levels and foreign medical graduates have on supply of PCPs? What response from medical schools, nursing programs and the public sector are most appropriate?
Room – 22 Margaret Flinter RN, CRNP Elizabeth Tilson MD, MPH	2. How can Public Policy Advance Primary Care in Connecticut? Who in Connecticut is invested in the problem? What steps need to occur to advance the debate and solutions? What examples can we take from other states? What effect will the potential entry of the millions of uninsured have on an overloaded system? Can pay parity be achieved? Global reimbursement, Pay for performance, coding improvement—will any be sufficient to encourage more PCPs?
Room – 23 Chuck Kilo MD, MPH, FACP C. Todd Staub MD, FACP	3. The Medical Home: Patient Sanctuary or House of Cards? Is it effective or will it fade away? What steps must practices and/or medical groups, Managed care, Medicare take to make the Medical Home a reality? It the goal itself worthwhile, achievable? Are current pilot programs proving to be effective?
Room – 24 Victor Villagra MD, FACP Richard Antonelli MD, MS	4. What New Infrastructure is Needed to Transform Primary Care? Can we build on the current Pediatric experiences? What are the central infrastructure components: Care Coordinators, Local Resource Locator Database, Personal Health Record (PHR), Shared Ancillary Practitioners and call hotlines? How might IT change primary care practice? Will the promise meet the reality? Will the reality occur? What other kinds of infrastructure supports beyond IT will be needed to help change primary care? What are the lessons from current Connecticut pediatric models?
1:30 – 1:45	Break
1:45 – 2:30	Summary Report of Breakout sessions
2:30 – 3:45	Shaping Connecticut Healthcare Delivery Systems to Become More Efficient Panel Viewpoints: Elliot Joseph, CEO Hartford Hospital; Kevin Lembo, State Healthcare Advocate; Jonathan Harris, State Senator; Glen Pomerantz MD, JD, Regional Medical Director, Aetna Moderator: Todd Staub MD
3:45 – 4:00	Jonathan Rosen: Crisis or Opportunity
4:00	Adjourn and Networking