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Welcome & Introductions: Wednesday, October 2, 1:00-2:00 pmDennis P. Andrulis, PhD, MPH Research Professor, Department of
Preventive Medicine and Community Health, SUNY Downstate Medical Center Dennis P. Andrulis is a research professor at the State University of New York Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn. He is responsible for creating, developing and conducting policy relevant research related to national and New York State health issues. In his current work and preceding tenure as Director, Office of Urban Populations at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City, he has created and overseen the development of projects, prepared major reports and published on a wide range of issues affecting hospitals and safety net providers, vulnerable populations and their communities. Dr. Andrulis has served as Principal Investigator for an investigative report, published by Jossey-Bass, entitled Managed Care in the Inner City: the Uncertain Promise for Providers, Plans and Communities. He has led projects concerning cultural diversity in health care including creation of a cultural competence self-assessment tool for health care organizations, and a national conference series, Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations. His focus on urban issues led to the creation a compendium and analysis of information on the social and health characteristics of the nation's major urban areas, published by The American Hospital Association Press, entitled The Social and Health Landscape of Urban and Suburban America. In his ten-year tenure as President of the National Public Health and Hospital Institute, Dr. Andrulis instituted a research and education agenda concerning public hospital systems and the safety net. He is a founding member and board member of the American International Health Alliance which, with Agency for International Development assistance, establishes health care partnerships between the US and Central-Eastern Europe. He holds a PhD in Educational-Community Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Julia Puebla Fortier has more than 14 years experience working in and writing about health care and specializes in linguistic and cultural competence in health care and Federal health policy analysis. As founder and director of Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care, she manages an international alliance of individuals and organizations in ethnic communities and health care organized to offer information and technical assistance on linguistic and cultural competence in health care. Activities include program design, policy development and analysis, research, and community advocacy. RCCHC is a coproducer of the national conference series, "Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations. Ms. Fortier has developed and manages the DiversityRx website--a comprehensive clearinghouse of information on model programs, policies and legal issues related to cross cultural health--and its listserv of over 400 participants. She was the principal investigator and author of the HHS-sponsored The National Standards on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health Care, and an accompanying research agenda, and co-author of model contract language on cultural competence for managed care organizations.
Ruth M. Rothstein, Chief, Cook County Bureau Of Health Services Ruth M. Rothstein currently serves as Chief of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services, one of the country’s largest, and most comprehensive systems of health care. She has led the Bureau, which is comprised of Cook County Hospital, Cook County Department of Public Health, Provident Hospital, Oak Forest Hospital, the Ambulatory and Community Health Network, The CORE Center, and Cermak Health Services, since its creation in 1991. Throughout her career, Rothstein has focused on the improvement of health care services to underserved and under privileged people and communities. Rothstein is widely known and highly regarded throughout the national, state, and local health care communities and beyond for her leadership and creativity in improving the quality of the health delivery system. Rothstein has always demonstrated a strong commitment to the needs of the underprivileged and her opposition to injustice on all levels, beginning with her first professional position as an organizer for the United Packinghouse Union, C.I.O. when she exposed and helped to bring to an end, one company’s systematic discrimination against women of color. As one admirer has noted, "Ruth Rothstein is a consummate idealist and realist. She will create the vision, lead the effort, and celebrate the reform." During her more than two decades at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Schwab Rehabilitation Center, Rothstein, demonstrated extraordinary vision and leadership by guiding the hospital through a potentially disastrous economic crisis, and dramatically increasing the level of community involvement in comprehensive community health care planning. She also created what have since become national models for access and delivery of health care services for residents of disadvantaged and economically unviable communities. Rothstein has always insisted that quality healthcare is a right, not a privilege. After accepting an appointment as Interim Hospital Director of the troubled Cook County Hospital in December of 1990, she accepted the position permanently in June of 1991. At Cook County Hospital, Rothstein has implemented strategic changes in the delivery of health care services at the hospital, always with the goal of making the institution more cost effective and more responsive and humane to the communities it serves. In December of 1991, when she accepted the position of Chief of the newly created Cook County Bureau of Health Services, Rothstein took on the additional responsibility for directing and coordinating all health services in Cook County through a newly created comprehensive network that provides a broad spectrum of services ranging from prevention and primary care to emergency and long term care. One of her most notable achievements is her successful leadership of a nonpartisan coalition, in an extremely challenging political environment, to plan and build a new, down-sized, state-of-the-art, Cook County Hospital. This facility will provide an appropriate environment for the delivery of quality health care to residents of Cook County for many years to come. Rothstein also reopened the Provident Hospital of Cook County, expanded ambulatory care throughout Cook County, and directed the successful effort to achieve full accreditation for Cook County Hospital. Rothstein serves or has served on numerous boards, commissions, and committees, including the American Hospital Association, the Illinois Health and Hospitals Association, the National Association of Public Hospitals, the Illinois Health Care Cost Containment Council, the University of Chicago Health Policy Research Council, the National Association of Counties, the Premier Hospitals Alliance, Inc., Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, Institute for Diversity in Health Management. She is active with the Jewish Women’s Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, and has served on the board of the Jewish Women’s Committee, and as a Vice President of the Jewish Federation Board of Directors. Among the many recognitions that Rothstein has received for her contributions to the field of health care and to her community are the Chicago Civic Federation’s Lyman Gage Award for Individual Civic Achievement, the American Hospital Association’s Russe Award, the Chicago Minority Business Development Council’s Impact Award, the Chicago Institute of Medicine’s Russe Citation for Compassion in Medicine, and Rush University’s highest honor, the Trustee Medal. In recognition of the high regard with which she is held by the people and communities she has served over the years, Rothstein has been distinguished with the dedication of a sculptured bust in her likeness and the naming of a Chicago Street in her honor. She has been featured in numerous magazines and periodicals in recognition of her many outstanding accomplishments in the healthcare profession. Rothstein holds an Honorary Doctorate of Laws degree from Kenyon College, and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rush University. |
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