NIATx Accelerating Reform Collaborative (ARC)
Course Format and Timeline
Each of the (8) webinars will consist of a presentation by a health reform expert followed by group discussion. The (3) phone consult calls will offer guidance and input from your NIATx coach as you create a health reform action plan for your behavioral health organization.
Webinars are 60 minutes each and start at 1:00 pm EST, 12:00 pm CST, 11:00 am MST, 10:00 am PST. Phone consults are 60 minutes each.
The course runs from November 8, 2010 through January 10, 2011 with breaks over the holidays.
Below is a week-by-week listing of the webinars and coach consult calls:
Webinar #1: Monday, November 8, 2010  |
| Time: |
1:00pm EST, 12:00pm CST, 11:00am MST, 10:00am PST |
| Topic: |
Framework for Change |
| Presenter(s): |
Victor Capoccia, Senior Scientist, NIATx View Bio |
| Description: |
Week one will focus on the Framework for Change. NIATx experts will guide participants through the outline and expectations of the course, including introductions with coaches, and give participants a chance to discuss what keeps them up at night with regards to Health Care Reform. |
Coach Call #1: Week of November 8, 2010  |
| Description: |
Coaches will contact participants to schedule the call. Participants will have their first of three one-on-one coach calls. |
| Webinar #2: Monday, November 15, 2010 |
| Time: |
1:00pm EST, 12:00pm CST, 11:00am MST, 10:00am PST |
| Topic: |
Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act |
| Presenter(s): |
Gabrielle de la Gueronniere View Bio |
| Description: |
In week two, participants will hear from experts on Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act. They will discuss the implementation timeline and what the provisions mean for you. |
| Webinar #3: Monday, November 29, 2010 |
| Time: |
1:00pm EST, 12:00pm CST, 11:00am MST, 10:00am PST |
| Topic: |
Health Reform Readiness Index |
| Presenter(s): |
Todd Molfenter, NIATx View Bio, and Mike Boyle, Consultant. View Bio |
| Description: |
Is your organization ready for Health Care Reform? Are you? By week three, participants will conduct a readiness assessment on their organization and present it to their coach and the group. This is a facilitated discussion among participants focusing on tasks that will lead to improvements. |
| Coach Call #2: Week of November 29, 2010 |
| Description: |
Participants will have their second of three one-on-one coach calls. Coaches will contact participants to schedule the call. |
| Webinar #4: Monday, December 6, 2010 |
| Time: |
1:00pm EST, 12:00pm CST, 11:00am MST, 10:00am PST |
| Topic: |
Business Systems and Management |
| Presenter(s): |
Rhonda Bohs View Bio
Michael R. Lardiere View Bio |
| Description: |
Moving beyond paperwork…week four will bring Business Systems and Management to the forefront. How will implementing electronic medical records affect your organization? Do you have mechanisms in place for third party billing? Discuss with experts on the frontline. |
| Webinar #5: Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| Time: |
1:00pm EST, 12:00pm CST, 11:00am MST, 10:00am PST |
| Topic: |
Integration: Connecting with Primary Care and the Broader Health System |
| Presenter(s): |
Jeff Samet View Bio |
| Description: |
A discussion around integrated models where behavioral health and primary care are working together to provide "whole" treatment for patients. How can we identify and meet addiction/mental health needs within the primary care setting? How can we meet primary care needs in the addiction/mental health setting? |
| Webinar #6: Monday, December 20, 2010 |
| Time: |
1:00pm EST, 12:00pm CST, 11:00am MST, 10:00am PST |
| Topic: |
Implementing Changes: Moving Forward With Your Action Plan |
| Presenter(s): |
Dean Lea and John Daigle View Bio |
| Description: |
In week six, where do you begin? NIATx experts will lead you through the challenges of implementing changes. You will come away knowing what to prepare for, how to accelerate the changes you need to make, and how to effectively direct your staff in implementing the aims of your organizational action plan. |
| Webinar #7: Monday, January 3, 2011 |
| Time: |
1:00pm EST, 12:00pm CST, 11:00am MST, 10:00am PST |
| Topic: |
Road Blocks to Your Action Plan: Addressing Barriers and Problem Solving |
| Presenter(s): |
Marty Cohen View Bio |
| Description: |
What's working for your organization? What's not working? Week seven will give you the opportunity to problem solve with others. Ask our experts, ask your peers. What qualities and conditions do you want in your organization to bring about change? What are you going to do first? After this thought provoking discussion, you will be energized to move forward. |
| Coach Call #3: Week of January 3, 2011 |
| Description: |
Between weeks seven and eight, participants will have their second one-on-one coach call. |
| Webinar #8: Monday, January 10, 2011 |
| Time: |
1:00pm EST, 12:00pm CST, 11:00am MST, 10:00am PST |
| Topic: |
The Bigger Picture |
| Presenter(s): |
Kima Joy Taylor and David Reamer View Bio |
| Description: |
Week eight will be focused on the bigger picture. What is your state doing to implement reform? What policies and regulations are being developed regarding parity; eligibility and enrollment; benefits; payment levels; etc. |
| April 2011: NIATx Follow-up |
| Description: |
Three months post collaborative, NIATx will follow up. We will resend your Action Plan asking you where are you in this plan? |
Gabrielle de la Gueronniere, Director for National Policy, Legal Action Center
Gabrielle de la Gueronniere joined the Legal Action Center's Washington D.C. office in May of 2003 as a law student intern. Following her graduation in 2004, Ms. de la Gueronniere became the Center's Policy Associate. In addition to focusing on national policy advocacy and analysis of issues related to ending discrimination against people with addiction histories, Ms. de la Gueronniere also works as a policy associate for the Legal Action Center's National H.I.R.E. Network. Ms. de la Gueronniere is a graduate of Boston University and American University's Washington College of Law.
Todd Molfenter, Co-Deputy Director, NIATx
As Deputy Director for NIATx, Todd Molfenter's role includes managing the technical assistance provided to Learning Collaborative members and process improvement coaches. He is also a process improvement coach for some Learning Collaborative members, and a key faculty member in Learning Sessions. For the last decade, Molfenter has studied, planned and led organizational and individual change efforts. As a member of the administrative staff at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, he implemented a total quality management program and other change processes to improve the quality of care and achieve the organization's highest customer satisfaction ratings in over a decade. The hospital received numerous awards for its quality of care, culminating in its inclusion in U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Hospitals" for three consecutive years.
Molfenter worked at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston , MA , where he directed consulting services and the annual conference. He specializes in the use of organizational collaboratives as agents of change, and has helped many clients, including the Health Care Finance Administration, Voluntary Hospitals of America, and the Harvard Risk Management Foundation to develop more effective approaches to productive change in their organizations. Molfenter received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the UW-Madison.
Jeff Samet, Vice Chair for Public Health, Department of Medicine, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Samet is a professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health and Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine Boston Medical Center. He also serves as Medical Director of Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Services at the Boston Public Health Commission.
Dr. Samet’s research has focused on linkage of substance abuse treatment and primary medical care; addressing substance abuse issues in the primary care setting; the impact of alcohol and drug use in HIV-infected persons, the delay in establishing primary medical care for HIV infection; and HIV prevention strategies in Eastern Europe. He is the Principal Investigator on several current NIAAA and NIDA-funded studies. He is an internist and has been a primary care physician since 1983.
Boston University faculty appointment: 1989
Dean Lea and John Daigle
- John Daigle:
John Daigle has more than 35 years of experience in the addiction treatment and prevention field, both at the community level in program development and leadership, as well as at the state and national level, in advocacy, public policy development and association management. For 30 years, he served as the Executive Director of the Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association, a statewide advocacy organization representing more than 120 community-based addiction treatment and prevention agencies. He has served on numerous Florida statewide task forces and most-recently served on the Governor's Drug Policy Advisory Council.
On a national level, he is a past President of the State Associations of Addiction Services (SAAS) and has served as a consultant in numerous states and in the Carribean. He also served on the CSAT National Leadership Institute’s Advisory Board and was a member of the CSAT National Treatment Plan Expert Panel on “Research to Practice.” He currently serves as a consultant to the Legal Action Center, a national policy organization with offices in New York City and Washington, D. C. and to NIATx, the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and SAMHSA - funded project at the University of Wisconsin.
In 2002, John received a “ Lifetime Achievement” award from the University of South Florida’s Mental Health Institute. In 2006, John received was the recipient of The State Associations of Addiction Services (SAAS) first national “Excellence in Leadership" award.
- Dean Lea:
Dean Lea is an organizational and leadership development consultant. He is a principle at the Burlington, VT based Tupelo Group. Dean holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont as well a pharmacy degree and graduate degrees from Union College. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and is a National Advisory Council Member for the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. He has experience with developing leaders and cultures for start-ups, mid-size and large size organizations.
Martin Cohen
Mr. Cohen has more than 25 years experience in working with state and county behavioral health agencies to improve services. He has a long track record of assisting federal, state and local policy makers and providers in the areas of strategic planning, finance, local systems development and managed care. He has worked with state and federal agencies to plan and implement comprehensive strategies for improving consumer services.
Mr. Cohen previously served as a deputy director and senior program consultant with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and was a deputy assistant secretary in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health & Human Services. He is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, and is co-director of the Harvard/NASMHPD State Mental Health Leadership Program.
Kima Joy Taylor and David Reamer
- David Reamer
David Reamer,Director,Community Advocates Public Policy Institute
As Director of the Community Advocates Public Policy Institute, David is responsible for developing and advancing policies to greatly reduce poverty. David has been active for many years in reshaping Wisconsin and U.S. policies on welfare, poverty, health care and education. He was recently chosen to serve as a member of the Wisconsin Legislative Council Special Committee on Health Care Reform Implementation, which will study and make recommendations to the State Legislature on what changes Wisconsin should make in response to recently enacted federal health care reform legislation. It will also study all aspects of the federal legislation that affect Wisconsin including insurance market reforms, coverage for uninsured persons, preventive care and quality improvement.
David is the author of The Prisoners of Welfare and several articles on poverty, health care reform and public administration. He is one of the co-founders of The New Hope Project.
David served from 2004-07 as Director of the Wisconsin Health Project to lower the number of Wisconsin’s uninsured and control health care costs. The project was responsible for developing bipartisan legislation (Assembly Bill 1140) to tackle the state’s two biggest health care problems.
In 2004 David campaigned for Milwaukee County Executive. He received 101,000 votes, or
43 percent of the votes cast. During 2003, David served as Budget Director for Wisconsin
Gov. Jim Doyle. His primary responsibility was to solve the State’s projected $3.2 billion deficit. The resulting balanced budget preserved vital services without raising taxes. David worked as an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy in London and Oxford, England, in 2002; his research focused on supplementing low-income workers’ earnings through the tax system.
From 1988-2001, David held several high-level jobs for the City of Milwaukee, including Budget Director, Administration Director and Chief of Staff for Mayor John O. Norquist. For most of this period, he was responsible for overseeing the central fiscal, purchasing, IT and intergovernmental functions of the City’s 7,500-person, $700 million government.
From 1975-88, David held several positions in government and the private sector. He was legal advisor to Wisconsin Gov. Patrick Lucey, worked for Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, developed health policy options for the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, prepared a report on Wisconsin’s uninsured for the state Department of Health and Social Services, and worked on health care cost containment issues for Time Insurance Company. David received an AB degree from Harvard College in History and Literature (1970) and a law degree from Harvard Law School (1975).
- Kimá Joy Taylor
Kimá Joy Taylor, MD, MPH, is the director of the Tackling Drug Addiction Program at the Open Society Institute–Baltimore. Prior to joining OSI, Taylor served as the deputy commissioner for the Baltimore City Health Department. During her tenure at the health department she tried to create more cohesive and integrated public health services for citizens at risk. Before coming to Baltimore, she served as the health and social policy legislative assistant, with issue areas including Social Security, TANF, pharmaceuticals, Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care policy and women's issues.
A board-certified pediatrician, Taylor is a graduate of Brown University, Brown University School of Medicine, and the Georgetown University residency program in pediatrics. From 1998 to 2002, Taylor cared for uninsured and underinsured patients at a community health center in Washington, D.C., and created a city-wide coalition to advance literacy in pediatric primary care. She worked with other community organizations to empower youth such that they will realize their abilities, grasp opportunities, and improve the world at large.
In 2002, Taylor was awarded a Commonwealth Foundation fellowship in minority health policy at Harvard University. During the fellowship, Taylor's research focused on exploring state legislative remedies for racial and ethnic health disparities.
Mike Boyle
Michael Boyle is the former President and CEO of Fayette Companies, a behavioral health organization located in Peoria, Illinois and is Director of the Behavioral Health Recovery Management project. Mike is a founding member of the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) and has been a member of the editorial boards of the Join Together Treatment Practitioner Research Bulletin and the National Addiction Technology Transfer Center’s The Bridge. Boyle recently served on a National Quality Forum committee charged with defining an episode of continuing care for a substance abuse treatment encounter. He was a member of a United Nations initiative charged with improving the quality of drug treatment worldwide. Mike also served as a provider coach for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Advancing Recovery project and has authored several articles and book chapters.
Boyle currently provides contractual services focused on integrating mental health, addiction and primary care services, implementing evidence based clinical practices within recovery oriented systems of care and the development and use of electronic technologies to support behavioral health treatment and recovery.
Rhonda Bohs
Rhonda Bohs, Ph.D. is currently the Vice-President for Research and Program Development at Spectrum Programs, Inc. and Miami Behavioral Health Center, Inc. Dr. Bohs serves as Site Investigator for Spectrum Programs’ activities in the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. Dr. Bohs also serves as Principal Investigator in the Community Core of the Center for Substance Use and AIDS Research on Latinos in the United States with Florida International University.
Dr. Bohs received her M.S. degree in Research and Ph.D. in Applied Experimental Psychology with an emphasis in Social Psychology from Saint Louis University. She has experience working with a broad range of modalities within substance abuse treatment and prevention She has conducted research in cross cultural differences, as well as program evaluation in hospital, community mental health centers, health departments, community based organizations and business settings. Throughout her career, Dr. Bohs has developed an expertise in implementing and evaluating programs targeting special populations, hard to reach populations, and in developing and implementing systems of care strategies within community based organizations.
Dr. Bohs has been involved in a number of demonstration, training, and evaluation projects, funded through the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), American Cancer Society, University of South Florida, Florida Department of Health, Florida Department of Children and Family Services, Florida Department of Corrections, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Juvenile Justice, the Health Foundation of South Florida, and the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Center for Health Disparities (NCHD).
Michael R. Lardiere
Michael R. Lardiere LCSW is currently the Director of Health Information Technology and the Senior Advisor for Behavioral Health at the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC).
Mr. Lardiere has over thirty years of health care experience in inpatient, outpatient and managed care settings and was behavioral health administrator for one of the largest FQHCs in the nation. He has extensive experience in integrating behavioral health and primary care. His managed care experience includes senior positions in clinical and provider relations areas and was responsible for provider contracting, profiling and quality for over 20,000 clinicians and 5,000 facilities in the Northeast.
Mr. Lardiere is engaged with Federally Qualified Community Health Centers (FQHCs), health center controlled networks, Primary Care Associations, the National Health Information Network and other health information systems to advance the field of health information exchange. He is responsible for developing strategy and in assisting health centers across the nation in implementing various HIT strategies to improve quality care. In addition, as an experienced and licensed mental health professional, Mr. Lardiere not only provides consulting services in mental health, substance abuse but also in integrating these services with the medical fields.
Mr. Lardiere is a Board Member of the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) and is a member of the CCHIT Behavioral Health Workgroup setting the EHR standards for behavioral health for behavioral health EHRs.
