Hilltop to Co-Sponsor Preconference to AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

The Hilltop Institute and the Department of Health Management and Policy at Saint Louis University are co-sponsoring a Community Benefit Preconference to the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on June 11, 2011. The purpose of this preconference, entitled Moving Forward with Evidence-Based Policy and Practice, is to facilitate collaboration between health care delivery systems—particularly hospital community benefit programs—and the communities they serve. Hilltop Hospital Community Benefit Program Director Donna Folkemer, MA, will speak about policy challenges and opportunities for states as §9007 of the Affordable Care Act is implemented. This is the subject of the program’s second issue brief, Hospital Community Benefits after the ACA: Building on State Experience. The event is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation MATCH Program.

May 19, 2011