Healthcare symposium features speaker David Nash

— June 12, 2013

Wyoming Medical Center and a group of healthcare organizations will host a symposium in July, “Paying differently for healthcare; Finding the right incentives.”

The event will take place Thursday, July 18, from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel in Casper. It is co-sponsored by The Wyoming Hospital Association, Wyoming Medical Center, Wyoming Medical Center Foundation and The Wyoming Business Coalition on Health.

The event is free and open to the public.

Featured speaker David Nash is the dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health (JSPH) and a board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement. Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. He was a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Medical Director of a nine-physician faculty group practice in general internal medicine. He has authored more than 100 articles in major journals and has edited 22 books, and most recently, he co-authored “Demand Better: Revive Our Broken Healthcare System,” which he will discuss in further detail at his July talk in Casper.

To register, go to wyohealth.org/events.php or call (307) 472-5013.

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