2008 Annual Meeting - Presentations Raising Awareness of Medicare Beneficiary Rights in New York Remarks by AHQA President Mark Bennett during AHQA Opening Plenary Session CMS Plenary Session Health Care Public Policy: Election 2008 and Beyond Why Universal Health Insurance is Necessary for a High Performance Health System Establishing an effective corporate compliance program Having an 800-pound gorilla As a customer Partnership Lessons for the 9th SoW Leveraging Cross-Setting Work through Partnerships Successful Strategies for Working With Rural Hospitals Under the New 9SOW Themes Weaving Influenza and Pneumococcal Immunizations into Our Tapestry Using GIS to Analyze Health Disparities Spreading the Flu Bug: Improving Provider and Patient Access to Adult Immunizations Medicare Pay-for-Performance: The California Perspective Pay 4 Performance Gateway To Care Management Pressure Ulcers and Transitional Care: Cross-Setting Work Among Local Providers Partnering Across Settings to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Causes of Avoidable Hospitalization in Home Health Preliminary Results from a Field Study Acute Care Hospitalization Event Tree Building a Suspension Bridge: The QI and Case Review Connection Satisfying the Unsatisfied Medicare Beneficiary ESRD Network 8 Coalition Experience Midwest Chronic Kidney Disease Coalition Taking Stock of Local Physician Report Initiatives Building Effective Boards: From Recruitment to Engagement Transitions of Care Program: Report on a special study funded by CMS Humans Err: We're Made That Way Understanding and overcoming barriers to physician involvement in Patient Safety and Teamwork Initiatives National Efforts to Promote Quality and Efficiency Measurement Hospital Leadership Quality Assessment Bridging the Gap 2: Using Quality Assurance to Change Quality Improvement Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Medicare Population Variation Analysis by Location, and Understanding Efficiency Attributing Improvement to QIO Work: When is Association Enough? Risk Management Bridging the Gap A Care Transitions Pilot Health Literacy Plenary Health Literacy: What is it and what can we do about it? (Powerpoint Presentation) Making Your Health Materials Understandable for All (Powerpoint Presentation) Health Literacy Resources (MS Word doc) Calculating Readability Statistics (MS Word doc)