Improving Our Access to Quality Healthcare: A Community Conversation

What are the biggest barriers and opportunities to ensuring QUALITY HEALTHCARE FOR ALL HERE IN NORTHERN NEVADA? Learn from local experts. JOIN US FOR THIS MONTHLY SPEAKER SERIES TO LEARN ABOUT CRITICAL LOCAL ISSUES THAT IMPACT YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE HERE IN THE TRUCKEE MEADOWS. Each month local experts will shed light on the obstacles and opportunities we face as a community in areas such as Health & Wellness, Education & Lifelong Learning, Economic Wellbeing, Land Use, the Arts & Cultural Vitality, our Natural Environment, and so much more. These COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS ARE POWERED BY THE DATA OFFERED IN NevadaTomorrow.org [http://www.NevadaTomorrow.org] - TMT's new Community Data Exchange initiative. For February, take a deeper look at the challenges and opportunities our community faces in providing accessible quality healthcare to northern Nevadans. Healthy people make healthy communities. What are the biggest barriers to overall health and quality healthcare here in northern Nevada? Learn about innovative approaches happening here in our community and what is being done to ensure ALL Nevadans can lead healthy, happy lives. PANELISTS INCLUDE: _JOHN PACKHAM_ - Associate Dean of the Office of Statewide Initiatives, Associate Professor Department of Internal Medicine at UNR School of Medicine, Co-Director of the Nevada Health Workforce Research Center and the Chair of the Governor’s Patient Protection Commission _ANDY PASTERNAK, MD -_ Local physician, founder of Silver Sage Medical Center, member of the Washoe County Medical Society, Nevada State Medical Association, American Academy of Family Physicians, and Nevada Academy of Family Physicians _ AARON FRICKE, JD – _Senior Deputy General Counsel for the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners, member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and American Health Lawyers Association, and attorney focused on healthcare, regulatory and professional responsibility issues. _ TREVOR RICE- _Chief Operating Officer of Access to Healthcare, Advisory Council Member of the State of Nevada Division of Insurance COMMUNITY EDUCATION & TRAINING: Get informed by attending the Nevada Tomorrow Community Data Exchange training offered immediately before the event (4-5pm) in the same location. Learn about NevadaTomorrow.org—a free, dynamic, easy to use, one-stop digital resource for access to community quality of life data. Find up-to-date demographic, education, environmental, economic, health, social determinant and equity data that highlights trends, challenges and opportunities in our Nevada communities; hundreds of maps, tables and figures, and, promising practices. Tracking your impact on community quality of life has never been easier. We are democratizing data access, assessment, evaluation and sharing for community members—even for those with little technical expertise. NevadaTomorrow.org equips our community with the tools needed to champion collaboration, communicate priorities, and implement strategic interventions to impact positive community outcomes. NevadaTomorrow.org [http://www.NevadaTomorrow.org] plays a vital role in our community by offering a trustworthy, independent, non-partisan, non-biased, grassroots, community-lead, digital resource for stakeholders and the community at large to access critical data needed to prioritize, address, and advocate for quality of life issues. WE HOPE YOU CAN JOIN US! NevadaTomorrow.org [http://www.nevadatomorrow.org] provides a free, dynamic, easy to use, one-stop digital resource for access to community quality of life data. Here you will find up-to-date demographic, environmental, economic, educational, health, social determinant and equity data that compares local, state, and national goals and prior values, side­by­side. NevadaTomorrow.org [http://www.nevadatomorrow.org] is a Truckee Meadows Tomorrow initiative, powered by Healthy Communities Institute, made possible by the visionary investment and leadership of Renown Health [https://www.renown.org/], and supported by COMMUNITY IMPACT PARTNERS SUCH AS EDAWN [https://www.edawn.org/], NV Energy [https://www.nvenergy.com/] and CliftonLarsonAllen [https://www.claconnect.com/]. Truckee Meadows Tomorrow [http://www.truckeemeadowstomorrow.org] is a grassroots non-profit organization committed to measuring critical QUALITY OF LIFE DATA IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS. TMT’s new data initiative, NevadaTomorrow.org [http://www.nevadatomorrow.org], tracks more than 300 diverse community indicator performance measures, across the following -quality of life categories: _O CRITICAL LOCAL ISSUES: POVERTY AND HOUSING_ _O CRITICAL LOCAL ISSUE: BEHAVIORAL HEALTH_ _O HEALTH & WELLNESS_ _O ECONOMIC WELLBEING_ _O EDUCATION & LIFELONG LEARNING_ _O LAND USE & INFRASTRUCTURE_ _O NATURAL ENVIRONMENT_ _O CIVIC & NEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT_ _O PUBLIC WELLBEING_ _O ARTS & CULTURAL VITALITY_ As the first quality of life organization recognized by the Brookings Institution to effectively link quality of life indicators to community and public-private-nonprofit initiatives, Truckee Meadows Tomorrow is positioned as a national and local expert on quality of life indicator best practices.