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Providing Value Beyond Medication
PharMerica is a national leader with a local touch, with over 160+ pharmacies. Drawing on 30+ years of senior care experience, innovative technology, and comprehensive offerings, we’re improving care to help people live their best life. We’re also advancing our clients’ success by ensuring access to medications, controlling pharmacy costs, and fostering regulatory compliance.
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Phone: 855-946-0406
https://twitter.com/PharMericaCorp
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Al Condeluci, PhD
Keynote – Change, Challenge, and Opportunity
The notion of change is always present. Whether we want, need or must change, once we come to a point of frustration, we then find ourselves at the locus of change. Yet, the majority of services we currently offer have become systems unto themselves, or our personal patterns of behavior have become so deeply rooted in the existing paradigm, they are often resistant to change. This interactive presentation will look at the challenge of change, explore its elements and introduce a framework for managing the change process.
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Peter Senge identified learning organizations are those where "people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire....where people are continually learning how to learn together." Creating and fostering a culture of learning requires focusing on the personal mastery of all staff, the building of team culture, and the management of talents. Identifying and nurturing the inner fire within each of us is a key path to sustaining an energized and resilient workforce.
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We all strive to balance our personal and professional lives, to be remembered, and to live a life of significance. More often than not, the problems and struggles we endure are the direct result of an improper focus. It is this balance and significance one can find while mastering A Leader’s FOCUS.
Thomas takes the “best of the best” leadership principles, stories and experiences and distills life gems for immediate understanding and application. His powerful stories give meaning behind the madness, in a principle everyone can relate to, laugh at, and apply to their lives.
A Leader’s FOCUS not only answers “What is Leadership?” but more importantly teaches how to lead and to develop the essential skills for personal and professional growth.
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Leslie Haywood, CEO
813-387-3870 Ext. 308
[email protected]
https://www.ebridge.com
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Julie Bowden, Business Development Consultant
704-302-1848
[email protected]
https://www.therapservices.net
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Lauren Carr Wiggs, Director of Sales & Implementation
704-944-2894
[email protected]
https://www.ontargetconnect.com
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Herb Whitesell, Managing Partner
828-322-2070
[email protected]
https://www.dhw.cpa
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Pam Perry, Vice President
757-343-2076
[email protected]
https://www.carolinacompletehealth.com
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Lisa Chidester, State Director
704-559-8125
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Jamie Tutor, Executive Director - NC East
919-314-6656
[email protected]
https://www.allwayscaring.com
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For more than four decades, direct support professionals have been supporting people with disabilities across every community in the country; helping people build and maintain relationships, supporting employment opportunities, supporting skills to live independently, supporting the unique and dignified contributions that build inclusive communities and promoting self-directed lives. Then, almost suddenly in early 2020, everything changed and community (where the work is done) was, for the most part closed. Over the course of the past year (or more), direct support professionals re-defined their jobs without a road map, supporting social distancing, educating about the needs of personal protective equipment, dealing with issues pertaining to daily schedule changes, using new technology to build relationships, and of course, keeping people who are three times more likely to die from the COVID-19 virus, healthy and safe. As with all crises, they rose to the occasion and exceeded expectations and as we emerge from these dark days, how will the I/DD system, funders and policy makers recognize these “heroes”? What opportunities are there to finally address this decades-long workforce “crisis”? This session will provide reflections from the pandemic and solution-driven ideas to finally create the hallmarks of a meaningful career for our direct support workforce.
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Speaker: Dave Richard, Senior VP, McGuireWoods Consulting
Dave Richard, Senior Vice President with McGuire Woods Consulting and former NC Medicaid Deputy Secretary, will lead a policy discussion of trending issues with members at the Monday evening Executive Leadership Forum.
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Shelita Lee, Executive Director - NC Children and Families Specialty Plan
919-971-4224
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Rick Coley, Director of Business Development
740-885-8164
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Amy Pottinger, Referral Development Director
704-336-8712
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Yesenia Howell, Director of Referral Marketing
906-828-4301
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Teri Herrmann, CEO
704-453-1878
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Monica Titus, Provider Relationship Account Director
984-243-7642
[email protected]
https://www.healthybluenc.com/north-carolina/home.html
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Donald Reuss, VP Behavioral Health and I/DD Network Operations
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Sarah Lynch, VP of Sales and Customer Service
Phone: 866-768-8479
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Launa Kindrick, Director of Quality, Business Developement and Growth
Phone: 830-377-5486
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Dr. Vanessa Ervin, Chief Executive Officer
[email protected]
(910) 326-7600
www.carobell.org
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Debbie Stewart,
Marketing and Communications Business Operations Manager
704-616-6353
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Krista Engels,
Regional Operations Director
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Mary Ellen Decarlo
Director of Provider Contracting
614-212-6351
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