Senate Committee on Health and Welfare

 

AGENDA

 

Room 17

January 22, 2019 - January 25, 2019

Last Updated 3/13/2019 11:08 AM

 

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

9:00 AM                   Senate Protocols and Floor Decorum

 

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

10:00 AM                   Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems

Overview and Updates

Devon Green, Vice President of Government Relations, Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems

 

11:00 AM                   Adverse Childhood Experiences

Review Act 43 Report

Ena Backus, Director of Health Care Reform, Agency of Human Services

 

12:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

9:00 AM                   Green Mountain Care Board

Overview of Annual Report

Susan Barrett, Executive Director, Green Mountain Care Board

Kevin Mullin, Chair, Green Mountain Care Board

 

9:30 AM                   Trauma Informed Care

Data Visualization Tool

Georgia Maheras, Director, Vermont Public Policy, Esq., Bi-State Primary Care Association

Lauri Scharf, Program Manager, Health Care Informatics, Bi-State Primary Care Association

Heather Skeels, Senior Program Manager, Health Data Operations, Bi-State Primary Care Association

 

10:00 AM                   Federally Qualified Health Centers

Georgia Maheras, Director, Vermont Public Policy, Esq., Bi-State Primary Care Association

 

10:30 AM                   Break

 

10:50 AM                   Health Care Contract and Medicine Assisted Treatment

Michael Touchette, Commissioner, Department of Corrections

Annie Ramniceanu, DOC Addiction and Mental Health Systems Director, Department of Corrections

Max Titus, Department of Corrections

Ben Watts, Health Services Administrator, Department of Corrections

 

11:30 AM                   Department of Health

Overview and Updates

Mark Levine, M.D., Commissioner, Vermont Department of Health

 

12:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

Thursday, January 24, 2019

9:00 AM                   Medicaid Dental Benefit

Cory Gustafson, Commissioner, Department of Vermont Health Access (DVHA)

Barbara Frankowski, M.D., MPH, Prof. of Gen. Pediatrics & Adolescent Med., Dept. of Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics, Vermont Chapter - Phone

Vaughn Collins, Executive Director, Vermont State Dental Society

Tom Connolly, Retired Oral And Maxillofacial Surgeon

Janice Waterman, Practice Manager, RD, CDE, The Health Center

Gail Auclair, CEO, Little Rivers Health Care, Inc. - Phone

 

11:30 AM                   OneCare Vermont

Overview and Updates

Kevin Stone, Acting CEO, OneCare Vermont

Victoria Loner, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, OneCare Vermont

 

12:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

Friday, January 25, 2019

9:00 AM                   S. 14 - An act relating to extending the moratorium on home health agency certificates of need

Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Jill Olson, Executive  Director, VNAs of Vermont

Laura Pelosi, Lobbyist, Bayada Home Health Care

Amerin Aborjaily, Associate General Counsel, Green Mountain Care Board

 

10:00 AM                   Department of Mental Health

Update on Recent Changes, continued

Sarah Squirrell, Commissioner, Department of Mental Health

Mourning Fox, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Mental Health

Emma Harrigan, Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems

 

11:10 AM                   Vermont Legislative Research Service

Anthony Gierzynski, Director, Vermont Legislative Research Service

 

11:20 AM                   Pharmacists' Day

Marty Irons, RPh, Vermont Pharmacists Association

Lauren Bode, Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

Theo Kennedy, Lobbyist, Vermont Pharmacists Association

 

11:30 AM                   Implicit Bias Training

Ethan Allen Room

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 1 hard copies. Please write your name, organization, date and title on each document. With few exceptions, any documents you hand out to a committee, or send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s webpage.

 

If you have any questions and comments, please contact

 Maya Sutton-Smith at 802-828-2279 or msuttonsmith@leg.state.vt.us