Background:  The Governor's Roundtable on Health Care was established to build upon successful efforts undertaken by Arkansas leaders and facilitated by ACHI to address comprehensive health care reform in Arkansas. 

Careful consideration was given to include a diverse group of individuals to represent a full spectrum of perspectives, while at the same time maintaining a productive group size.  For a complete list of Roundtable members, click here.

The group will meet bi-monthly over the next 18 months in various locations around the state.  Click here for future meeting dates.  Meetings are open to the public and public input will be sought on a variety of issues pertaining to health care in Arkansas.  If you would like to be notified of future meetings, please click here to contact ACHI.  Topics for future meetings include:

Consumer Input / Public Health / Overview of Health Care System

Physician Community / Business Community

Hospital Community / Insurance Representatives

Consumer Input / Safety Net Providers

Mission:  Improve Arkansan's health and productivity through optimal program development, community support, and empowerment of individuals. 

Goal:  Identify, develop, and implement achievable strategies to improve health, deliver needed health care, and enhance both worker productivity and the business climate to advance the state.

Strategy: Two groups have been established and will work glove-in-hand to evaluate new strategies and achieve political consensus to support future authorization and/or funding. These groups are the Governor's Implementation Group consisting of governmental executives and legislative leaders and the Governor's Roundtable on Health Care.

Activities:

Develop consensus around proposals for consideration by the Implementation Group for deployment, or for the Governor's legislative package for 2009/2011/interim.

Establish politically engaged advocates to secure support for implementation (legislative/private sector) of recommendations.