What: Virginia Population Health Summit 2015Healthcare organizations across Virginia and the U.S. are focused on what is known as the “Triple Aim” - improving the patient experience, improving healthcare quality and reducing overall costs. The Virginia Population Health Summit will bring together state and national healthcare leaders from across the U.S. to discuss how to achieve the Triple Aim through a move to the population health model, which is an approach to health hat aims to improve the health of an entire human population. An important priority in achieving this aim is to reduce health inequities or disparities among different population groups.

The summit will be co-hosted by the Virginia Center for Health Innovation, The Virginia Department of Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia Health System and Well Virginia, UVA’s Medicare ACO. When: Thursday and Friday, March 26-27; the conferences runs from 1-5:30 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.-noon Friday

Where: The Boar’s Head Inn, 200 Ednam Dr., Charlottesville, VA 22903

Media Opportunities:Prior to the conference: Daniel McCarter, MD, Medical Director of the Well Virginia ACO, is available for interviews Wednesday.

Speakers at the conference will include:• William A. Hazel Jr., MD, Secretary of Health and Human Resources for Virginia (speaking at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 26)• Jared Susco, Chief Operating Officer, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers (speaking at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 26)• Richard P. Shannon, MD, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, UVA Health System (speaking at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 26)• Marissa J. Levine, MD, MPH, State Health Commissioner for Virginia (speaking at 8 a.m. Friday, March 27)

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