What Does Health Reform Mean for New Jersey's Businesses?
Date:
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 8:30am - 4:30pm
Location:
Renaissance Ballroom, Crowne Plaza, 390 Forsgate Drive, Jamesburg, NJ
Host:
New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, Johnson & Johnson, the Horizon Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Jersey Nursing Initiative at the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Foundation Summit to Focus on Business Implications of Health Reform, Creating New Jersey Business Alliance
Health reform will have a tremendous impact on all facets of New Jersey's health care system. What will reform mean for the state’s employers, employees, hospitals, nurses, insurance providers and various other industries? Will business costs rise? Will competitiveness suffer? What do employers need to know now, in order to best prepare their businesses?
To address these questions, the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, Johnson & Johnson, the Horizon Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Jersey Nursing Initiative at the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Foundation is sponsoring a Business Summit on Healthcare: A Framework for Reform.
At the summit, business leaders and health care experts will discuss health reform-related changes and ways in which businesses can incorporate proactive strategies to address these changes into their company operations.
Speakers will include:
- Katie Strong Hays, Executive Director, Congressional and Public Affairs, US Chamber of Commerce
- Jeffrey Brenner, M.D., Department of Family Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Sue Hassmiller, Ph.D., R.N., Senior Advisor for Nursing, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Robert Wise, President, Hunterdon Medical Center
- Susan Bakewell-Sachs, Ph.D., R.N., Dean, School of Nursing, , Health, and Exercise Science The College of New Jersey
- Pat Orchard, R.N., Director, Health Affairs, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
- Sonia Delgado, MGA, Senior Associate, Princeton Public Affairs Group
At 1:45pm, an expert panel will discuss the current state of health care in New Jersey, the impact on business and what is being done to mitigate the impact of problems like the nurse and nurse faculty shortage, high health care costs to business and uncertainty about federal health reform. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions of all presenters.
The Business Summit on Healthcare will help create the framework for a long-term discussion and a new business alliance to track reform and its impact on New Jersey.
MEDIA NOTE: For a copy of the full agenda, please contact Johanna Diaz or Gretchen Wright at (202) 371-1999.