Medicaid Managed Care and Child Health Plus Benefits
Date: Friday, November 14, 2003
Time: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
Location: GNYHA Conference Center, 555 West 57th Street, 15th Floor

DOH staff will provide a detailed overview of the Medicaid, Family Health Plus, and Child Health Plus program benefit packages, including complex coverage issues, such as carvedout services, optional services, family planning services, and patient self-referrals. The briefing will also include an in-depth review of behavioral health service benefits. For more information contact Ellen Lukens, and to register contact Theresa Simon, at GNYHA.

HAZMAT for Health Care—
Operations Level Course

MANHATTAN:
Dates: Monday, November 17; Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Time: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. (each day)
Location: New York Presbyterian Hospital (Weill Cornell), EMS Training Center (Ambulance Deck), 70th Street (east of York Avenue)

LONG ISLAND:
Dates: Wednesday, December 10; Thursday, December 11, 2003
Time: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. (each day)
Location: North Shore University Hospital at Syosset, Center for Emergency Medical Services, Main Classroom, 1st Floor, 15 Burke Lane, Syosset, NY

This course is being organized by GNYHA and taught by the North Shore-LIJ Health System, which has received Federal grant funding for it. It will include demonstrations on how to decontaminate patients who have been exposed to chemicals, and is appropriate for decontamination team staff. GNYHA will be holding additional sessions of this course on Long Island and in Manhattan, Westchester, and NJ. Member institutions in Westchester and NJ are advised to wait for those courses. For more information contact Doris R. Varlese, and to register contact Meg Figley at GNYHA.

Human Factors in Patient Safety
Date: Friday, November 21, 2003
Time: 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: Department of Veterans Affairs
Medical Center at Northport, 79 Middleville
Road, Building 5, Northport, NY

GNYHA will co-host this briefing in coordination with the LI Coalition for Patient Safety and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center at Northport. Speakers include Wayne M. Osten, Director, Office of Health Systems Management for DOH, and John Gosbee, M.D., M.S., Director of Patient Safety Information Systems at the VA National Center for Patient Safety in Ann Arbor, MI. For more information contact Terri Straub, and to register contact Rosanne Denaro, at GNYHA.