[Organizenow] January Waking the Sleeping Giant Notes

[Duke Schempp]

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From: cd stebbins <gimper at i29.net>

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Enclosed notes from the Jan. 23rd meeting of WSG.  would those of you who
were there, please look them over and if i have missed anything or
clarifications need to be made, please let me know....thanks

chuck
PEPP

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Waking the Sleeping Giant Notes
Jan 23, 2008

By the time everyone got in the room, about 20 people were at the table.
Introductions were made.  Duke gave an overview of how we came to be where
we are at with the work on the community stewardship fund.  It was felt that
we were losing the general idea of the fund and now we will focus on the
health care issue alone.

Patricia from the family health care center presented information and
thoughts on health care.  We need to talk about it comprehensively because
all of us are looking for quality care.  It is a hot topic on the federal
level, but not so much at the state level.  We need to come up with a
strategy to figure out how we can establish quality health care in the metro
area.   It may be a problem of access and not necessarily restricted to low
income families.  Patricia talked about the medical home model like that out
in San Francisco where there is a case management like model and everyone is
assigned to a medical home.   However we shape this, we must have a specific
plan if we are to go to the city commission.  There are different models out
there that we can look at to see if we can duplicate it here.

The questions remain about what is it the city commission needs and how can
we develop a model around that?  How are we going to get there?  There is
another group that has been working on this issue the past two years called
the South Valley Access group, so a lot of ground work has been done
already.  Patricia suggested that it is a capacity issue as to why the South
Valley Access groups work over that last two years has not moved forward.  A
question was asked on whether or not funding was the reason the work did not
move forward.

The idea of a single point of entry with wrap around services was raised.
It was suggested that nonprofits, particularly the larger nonprofits, are
more concerned about health care for their employees rather that the
consumers they serve.

The Chamber work group was brought up and a survey that that group had done
regarding health care.

The meeting ended with a call for people to be part of a sub-group to work
on the specifics of what a health care plan would look like.  There were a
number of people who were interested and much thanks to those people.  The
first meeting for the sub-group will be Feb 11.

The next meeting of WSG large group meeting will be Feb 27th from 12:00 to
1:30 at friendship

cds
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