AGENDA

(subject to revision)

 

 Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Interim  Committee

Wyoming Game and Fish Department

Casper Regional Office

3030 Energy Lane, Suite 100

Casper, Wyoming 82604

 

Thursday, August  23, 2007

Friday, August 24, 2007

Thursday, August 23

 

8:30 am           Call to Order

 

8:35 am           Wyoming Department of Health reports:

 

·     Medicaid

o     Fed Update

o     SCHIP Update

o     Healthy Together Program

 

·     Aging

o     Long term care update

o     Select Committee on Aging

o     ADRC (Aging and Disability Resource Center)

 

·     SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment)/Tobacco Taxes

 

·     Immunization Program Update

·     Worksite Wellness Project

·     Colorectal Cancer Early Detection Program Progress Update

·     Public Health Terrorism Legislation

·     Laboratory Licensure Statute

 

12:00 am         Working Lunch

·                    Patrick Monihan, Wyoming Primary Care Association:  Community healthcare network – funding and expansion.

 

1:30 pm           Wyoming Healthcare Commission Reports

 

4:00 pm           Committee Business:  Adoption of Committee Rules

·        Majority vote of House and Senate members for bill sponsorship

 

Adjourn upon completion of committee business.


TENTATIVE  AGENDA

(subject to revision)

 

 Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Interim  Committee

Wyoming Game and Fish Department

Casper Regional Office

 

Friday, August 24, 2007

 

8:00 am           Dan Perdue - The State of Wyoming Hospitals

 

·        Charles Harms CEO, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center,   Dr. Mary MacGuire, Wyoming Medical Center -                               Unreimbursed Trauma Care

 ·        Gordy Lewis, CEO, Community Hospital - Nurse Licensure Compact

 ·        Mike McCafferty, CEO, Sheridan Memorial Hospital - Quality/Public Reporting/Patient Safety Initiatives

 

Susie Polliot - Wyoming Medical Association

·        Medicaid reimbursement levels

·        Physician recruitment

 

Loretta Wolf - American/Wyoming Cancer Society –

·        Smokefree Wyoming

·        Transportation access for cancer/medical treatment

·        Clinical trials

 

Lynn Birleffi, Sarah Green – Wyoming Assisted Living Coalition

·        Assisted living, Long term care

 

Jeri Bottenfield – Senior Center Project Directors

·        Senior centers

 

Jan Drury – Amer. Heart Assn./Wyo. Stroke Enhancement Project

·        Stroke prevention/treatment pilot project

 

12:00 noon      Lunch

 

1:00 pm           Tim Summers, JoAnn Lamphere – AARP

·        Other states healthcare/long term care reform efforts

 

2:00 pm           Public Comment

 

2:30 pm           Reports from committee members

 

3:00 pm           Committee discussion/requests for draft legislation

  

Adjournment upon completion of committee business.

 


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