Opening General Session
Oct 19, 2021 7:30am ‐ Oct 19, 2021 9:00am
Identification: IGS1
Welcome
Michael A. Holmes, Board Chair, NACHC
Opening Session Speakers:
E. Benjamin Money, MPH, Senior Vice President, Public Health Priorities, NACHC
Eloisa Perard, President and CEO, QueensCare Health Centers
Keynote
Derek Greenfield, PhD, EdD, Speaker, Educator, and Author
Taking Care of the Caretakers: Building Compassionate, Innovative, and Inclusive Communities in Times of Challenge
This dynamic, interactive opening session delivers a transformational opportunity to learn powerful insights for supporting ourselves as well as our employees and clients in order to maintain positive attitudes and achieve optimal performance.
In the midst of 18 months (and counting) of pandemic life, we must continue to honor the importance of relationships in fostering healthy, empowered teams and advancing meaningful change. By modeling approaches to break down barriers and establish spaces of inclusive excellence, the presenter offers a real-time encounter that will offer practical strategies for implementation in our work sites and help create a deep sense of community at FOM/IT. This experience will be carefully curated to ensure that, whether in-person or virtual, participants will be equally engaged and impacted. Take advantage of this special time to learn, laugh, play, and celebrate one another and our work together!
Dedicated Exhibit Time and Refreshment Break in EXPO Hall
Oct 19, 2021 9:00am ‐ Oct 19, 2021 9:30am
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Pharmacy and 340B Impacts: Panel Discussion - NTTAP Featured
Oct 19, 2021 10:00am ‐ Oct 19, 2021 11:15am
Identification: ITuC1
This session features a subject matter expert panel discussion with health center pharmacists and thought leaders on all things pharmacy operations. Over the past 12 months, health centers have encountered continued attacks on the 340B program by pharmaceutical manufacturers; this has increased the need for heightened awareness and mitigation of these threats and attacks. This has also led to an increase in the development of in-house pharmacies as well as a laser-focused review of contract pharmacy relationships. Panelists will focus on recommendations health center leaders should consider as they maneuver this increasingly challenging environment.
- Identify the most recent 340B policy and operational developments impacting health center pharmacy access and operations.
- Discuss new challenges for health centers as some implement in-house pharmacies and reassess contract pharmacy relationships.
- Highlight new approaches to addressing inquiries from pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Preparing for the Federal Audit of the Future
Oct 19, 2021 10:00am ‐ Oct 19, 2021 11:15am
Identification: ITuB1
While working to respond to the COVID pandemic, health centers received a tremendous amount of support. This support came in the form of grant funds, provider relief payments, the payroll protection and EIDL loan programs, and other resources. It is important that health centers approach all of the funds available to them with the mindset that it is not if, but when federal auditors will review health center use of these funds and records because reconciliation and accountability will come. Presenters will review all of the funds available to health centers and discuss the federal audits of the future to assist health centers with preparing and maintaining auditable records related to the stimulus funds they received while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Review previous audit workplans of HHS Office of Inspector General and Division of Financial Integrity to understand how audits of COVID-19 stimulus funds will potentially be approached.
- Discuss financial statement audit considerations after FASB works through and provides guidance to financial statement auditors in regards to stimulus grant funds.
- Review financial management requirements of health center financial records to refresh knowledge surrounding record keeping and the use of grant funds.