What is the Clinical Excellence Conference?The California Primary Care Association (CPCA) and Western Clinicians Network (WCN) have partnered to host the Region IX Clinical Excellence Conference. This three-day conference brings together healthcare leadership from across the region to focus on health center clinical and management teams--partnerships that spur innovation--with the goal of improving overall efficiency and effectiveness in care delivery.
Why CEOs and CMOs should attend together:Leadership is at its best when it works together, and CEOs and CMOs are the essential leadership team when it comes to patient quality, safety, and costs. The role of the CMO increasingly revolves around influencing physicians and administrators to create working relationships that benefit both. That requires a good grounding in both clinical and administration skills. To be able to work together and collaborate CMOs need to understand business aspects, just as CEOs need understanding of clinical processes and quality. |
WHO SHOULD ATTEND Clinicians, Chief Medical Officers, Medical Directors, Dental Directors, Executive Directors, State and Regional Primary Care partners, Board Members and other management positions involved with community or migrant health centers. Region IX members (Arizona, California, Nevada, Hawai'i, and the Pacific Islands) will be in attendance, but this clinical conference welcomes attendees from across the country! 
The key to excellent leadership is excellent learning!
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Conference Keynote Speakers
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America Bracho, MD, MPH, President & CEO, Latino Health Access
America Bracho is the President & CEO of Latino Health Access, a center for health promotion and disease prevention, which was created under her leadership to assist with the multiple health needs of Latinos in Orange County, California.
Latino Health Access facilitates mechanisms of empowerment for the Latino community and uses participatory approaches to community health education. The programs train community health workers as leaders of wellness and change. Ms. Bracho worked as a physician in her native Venezuela for several years, after which she came to the U.S. to obtain a Master’s Degree in Public Health at the University of Michigan. Her Public Health specialty is Health Education and Health Behavior. |
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Sandra Hernandez, MD, President & CEO, California Health Care Foundation*
Dr. Sandra R. Hernández is president and CEO of the California Health Care Foundation, which is based in Oakland and dedicated to improving the health of Californians. Previously, she led The San Francisco Foundation and also served as director of public health for the City and County of San Francisco. She is an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine and maintained a clinical practice at San Francisco General Hospital in the AIDS clinic from 1984 to 2016. She is a graduate of Yale University and the Tufts School of Medicine.
*Invited, not confirmed. |
