Make a Commitment to Healthcare Justice in 2010!
Do you feel overwhelmed with the problems facing your patients? Do you keep your head down and try not to think about the big picture? Would you like to be able to make a substantial difference in healthcare?
Let's Make Our Voices Heard!
Join a gathering of clinicians and students from across the country to explore cutting edge solutions, rediscover professional excitement, and be a vital voice in healthcare justice.
National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice
Network, Learn, and Rally for Health Justice
September 23-25, 2010
Doubletree Hotel Crystal City
Washington, DC
Event Brochure
Nominate an outstanding health professional or clinician-in-training
The National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice is soliciting nominations for outstanding health professions students or clinicians-in-training who have made a commitment to work with the underserved.
Congratulatons to the winners of our first National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice Photo Contest!
Thank you to all who submitted pictures for the photo contest. We received over 100 photo entries depicting healthcare justice in action. The photographs been reviewed by the National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice Organizers and winners have been identified.
Congratulations to our winners!
Pre Conference:
COPC: Integrating Medical Home and Community
This pre-conference is a premier event featuring the Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) model as a way of blending medical home and public health to improve the health of communities. COPC as a primary care mode has been recognized throughout the world as a means of caring for individuals and for improving the health of the communities in which they reside. This pre–conference brings together an outstanding faculty that are leaders and practitioners in public health, community medicine, COPC and medical home. They will help participants learn the methods and principles of COPC and medical home that can be applied to their own practices and communities.
Highlights from the 2008 National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice.
See a slideshow of the 2008 event and read first hand accounts from those who attended.
The National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice is a one-of-a-kind event sponsored by many of the major safety-net clinician organizations from across the United States. The two-day event is expected to attract clinicians and advocates from all over the country who will come together to celebrate, acknowledge and highlight the work frontline clinicians do to serve disenfranchised populations in need of basic healthcare in our country. The conference provides an opportunity for clinicians and others to explore cutting edge solutions and to be a part of the vital efforts to make quality health care for the underserved a reality.
Continuing Education
Nursing
Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This activity meets Type I criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements toward relicensure as established by the Texas Board of nursing.
This activity provides 22.75 contact hours.
Medical
This activity, National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice, with a beginning date of September 24, 2010, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 13.50 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
This activity, COPC: Integrating Medical Home and Community Health, with a beginning date of September 23, 2010, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 8.00 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Health Education
Sponsored by the Migrant Clinicians Network, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is a designated event for the CHES to receive up to 22.75 category I contact hours in health education.