Events

Price: $16/$17 - Part of event proceeds will support The HeART of Healing project of the Archimedes Movement, a grassroots effort to spark positive health reform in Oregon and beyond. 

Halloween in a real mortuary? Vagabond Opera presents a night of haunting music, ritual, art and the sincere honoring of those passed in their second annual Halloween bash. Whether you want to dance, party, pray, or channel your ancestors, this night is for you. The night will feature belly dance, a stunning interactive altar installation dedicated to honoring the dead, an apothecary and museum of weird objects, a divination table and an ancient fire ritual in honor of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch! Come dressed as an ancestor or someone dead. Bring a photo or object for the alter and get ready to have some serious dead fun!

The premise of the HeART of Healing’s month-long engagement is to create a forum in which we will bring key members of the health and art community together to discuss how art and medicine are connected, and, more importantly, how we can incorporate these functionally innovative approaches for the next phases of health care development.

Simply put, the HeART of Healing project is designed as an informative, working model for the future of how art can help medicine. The HeART of Healing project has the potential to reshape health policy in Oregon so that the artistic community becomes an active element in discussions surrounding subsequent health-oriented infrastructures.

Our second Leadership Training will be held the first Saturday in April. Please RSVP using the sign-up link below (preferred, though you must be logged-in to use the sign-up feature) or by sending an email to matt@wecandobetter.org.

This training will focus on three things:

• our new structure and grassroots decision-making
• presenting our message to groups large and small (AKA the speaker's training)
• the upcoming membership meeting

We will also hope to introduce our new staff members.

The Foundation For Medical Excellence invites you to attend the
John Kitzhaber, M.D., Lectureship on Health Care Policy

Speaker: Donald Berwick, M.D.
Topic: “Improving Care for Populations”

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
No host reception 5:45 p.m. — Dinner 6:30 p.m.
Pavilion Ballroom—The Portland Hilton
921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, Oregon

To register, download the attached form or call The Foundation For Medical Excellence at 503-222-1960.

About this presentation
Solving the most visible problems in American health care quality—improving patient safety and reducing variation in practice—though important, is insufficient to create a system of care that truly meets social need. A much more comprehensive set of changes are in store if we want high value and better health. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement labels the needed agenda the “Triple Aim”—improve care for individuals, improve the health of the population, and reduce per capita costs. Finding leadership toward the triple aim, and the political will to pursue all three aims at once, is the next and greatest challenge for securing the system of care that we need. Dr. Berwick will explore IHI’s latest ideas for the design of that system.

Contributions make this event possible
This Lectureship is maintained by individual contributions and sponsor donations. Your participation in this lectureship is invited. All contributions are recognized on TFME’s annual contribution lists. Individual contributions of $250 and organizational contributions of $1,000 are recognized in perpetuity. Founding contributors ($5,000 or more) participate in planning the lecture each year, attend a pre-dinner meeting with the Governor and are recognized at the dinner. Save the datefor this special dinner and lecture! You can reserve your place now.

The cost of the dinner is $150 for individuals and $1,200 for a table of eight.

Lectureship Founding Members
• AstraZeneca
• Bank of the Cascades
• Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
• Health Net of Oregon
• Kaiser Permanente
• Keating Jones Hughes
• Legacy Health System
• Lifewise Health Plan of Oregon
• Mid-Valley IPA
• Northwest Insurance Company
• Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
• Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals
• Ortho Biotech
• PacificSource Health Plans
• Pfizer, Inc.
• Providence Health System
• Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon
• Roche Laboratories
• The ODS Companies
• Salem Hospital
• School of Medicine, OHSU
• Southwest Washington Medical Center
• Wyeth-Ayerst Labs

John Kitzhaber will give a keynote speech at the Annual Critical Care Symposium, Airport Holiday Inn, Portland, Oregon.

John Kitzhaber will give a keynote speech at the Portland Surgical Society meeting, Governor Hotel, Portland, Oregon.

John Kitzhaber will give a keynote speech at the Gresham Chamber of Commerce Annual Economic Summit, Persimmon Country Club, Gresham, Oregon.

For registration, please contact:
Gresham Chamber of Commerce
503-665-1131

John Kitzhaber will give a speech at the Buckley Center Auditorium, University of Portland, Portland, Oregon

John Kitzhaber will give a keynote speech at the South Carolina Hospital Association annual meeting, Hilton Head, South Carolina.

John Kitzhaber will give a keynote speech at the Osteopathic Physicians & Surgeons of Oregon Annual Meeting, Embassy Suites in Tigard, Oregon.