This week we'll begin by invitinging Bethlehem and Sad Patrick to perform songs of love and other struggles. Combining her soaring vocals and driving percussion with his sparse guitar, they deliver powerful songs about being in and out of love, keeping your head up in the city, struggling to make your way, and seeking peace on the margins. Sad Patrick’s hybrid of folk, blues and jazz playing supports Bethlehem’s “vocussion” – her powerful singing, remarkable improvisations and nuanced melodies riding atop her tarima stomps and body percussion. Their live shows are enthralling, with their on-the-spot interplay and how fully Bethlehem inhabits their songs and captivates a crowd.
Next, we're excited to present Dr. Richard Baron who will speak on Abandoning Health: federal medical systems and their impact on physicians, seniors, and the middle class.
Dr Baron is President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation. A board-certified internist and geriatrician, he practiced for nearly 30 years at Greenhouse Internists in Philadelphia, an early leader in electronic health record adoption.
He later served as Group Director at the CMS Innovation Center, where he oversaw accountable care and primary care models, and previously as Chief Medical Officer of Health Partners, a nonprofit Medicaid HMO. He has held leadership roles with the National Quality Forum, NCQA, and the Aspen Institute Health Strategy Group. He was the architect of the Best Clinical and Administrative Practices program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Center for Health Care Strategies, working with medical leadership of Medicaid health plans around the country in learning collaboratives to improve the quality of care for their members. This program reached plans serving more than half of the Medicaid managed care population in the United States.
Dr. Baron earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard, his medical degree from Yale, and completed training at NYU-Bellevue before serving in the National Health Service Corps in rural Tennessee.
As always, we'll have a action item as well as our usual list of hopeful news, much needed in these dismal days.
Be sure to grab a drink or snack from the remarkably wonderful High Point Cafe, who give our community a home.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
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