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"Building Bridges Across the Department"

Background

On February 5 -7, 1996 the regional and central office leadership of the Department of Health & Human Services convened in Washington for a working conference called "Building Bridges to the Future". The conference focused on strengthening working relationships between the Central and Regional offices, and across division lines to enable the Department to function more effectively as a whole; to build successful external partnerships, and to improve service to our customers.

Collaboration & Education

Two of the Bridges goals stated the need to significantly improve access to key information and communication across HHS and to create processes to educate each other about what we do -- building on the the information exchange begun at the conference. The issues forums were developed in order to improve communication and collaboration and educate each other about current activities around key issues. Regional and central office locations were selected to allow a broad spectrum of HHS staff to participate in these issues forums.

Managed Care September 6, 1996
Video-Conference Panel Discussion for HHS employees originating from HCFA in Baltimore
Economic Trends/Demographics Fall, 1996
Details to be provided on this conferene for HHS employees

Resources and Connections

The Issues Forum Web site will provide follow-up material from each session, including highlights of the presentations; a summary of question and answers. Also included on each issue page is a collection of selected additional websites for you to browse and supporting information to download. Videotapes of this forum will be made available to each program contact on the list.

Non-HHS employees: You are welcome to browse these pages, which represent a broad selection of information on managed care. Nothing included in these pages, however, represents HHS policy, nor does the inclusion or exclusion of any site or information constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Department or any of its agencies or employees. HHS is also not responsible for the contents of any pages outside our control. HHS does not endorse any product or service provided by any other organization.

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