Reform isn't just for the people who receive health care - health care providers want it too. Join us Wednesday, Dec 16 as Natividad CEO Harry Weis and physicians Adelheid Ebenhoech, Dana Kent and Laura Solorio discuss why they support reform.

What: Healthcare Professionals Forum on Reform
When: Wednesday, Dec 16, 6:30-8:30 pm
Where: Salinas Valley Center For Change, 931 E. Market Street near N. Sanborn (click for a map)


Topics

• What drives primary care providers out of business
• How doctors spend most of their time
• Why some physicians no longer bill insurance companies
• What keeps hospital directors up at night
• Who currently cares for the uninsured and how would health care reform change that

Speakers

Dana Kent, M.D. is a family physician who has spent her areer practicing in Monterey County's public clinic and hospital system. She has spent the past 10 years working at the Seaside Family Health Center, where was Clinic Medical Director for 6 years. Dr. Kent served from 1999 to 2009 as a member of the Clinical Quality Improvement Committee of the Central California Alliance for Health, which is Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties' managed Medi-Cal organization.

Adelheid Ebenhoech, M.D. is a family physician, delivering primary care for the past 11 years with two other doctors in their family-owned clinic in Prunedale, California.

Laura Solorio. M.D. is the Medical Director of the Internal Medicine Clinic of the Monterey County Health Department. The county's seven clinics handle about 150,000 outpatient visits per year. Dr. Solorio is also on the Board of Directors of the Center for Community Advocacy, which focuses on farm worker housing and health issues.

Harry Weis is the CEO of Natividad Medical Center, our safety net hospital, owned by the County of Monterey. Mr. Weis has over 31 years of experience in executive health care administration. He has managed both for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals. He previously served as Director of Wellspring Management Services, LLC, the company contracted to manage Natividad during its time of transition.