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General Session Speakers for the NAHC 29th Annual Meeting
& Exposition
Sunday, October 3
Sponsored by the Corridor Group, Inc.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
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Michele A. Quirolo, CHCE
Chairman of the Board, NAHC |
Dr. Ruth Constant, Ed.D.
Chairman. NAHC Annual Meeting Committee |
 Sean Donahue
With more than 15 years of strategic communications experience,
Sean Donahue, Senior Vice President, leads The Herald Group’s
health care and technology practice areas. He designs and
implements campaigns to help national associations and
Fortune 100 companies bridge the latest in traditional
and online media and advocacy. Before joining The Herald
Group, Donahue was a senior member of the global public
affairs team at Dell Inc. In this role, he led targeted
programs on issues ranging from health IT and education
to energy and the environment. Most recently, he managed
communications for Dell’s executive leadership team.During
the 2004 presidential election, he served as a national
press lead for the Kerry/Edwards campaign. He was an on-air
analyst for CNN’s Financial Network during the 1996
presidential primaries.
Washington Update
A lively panel disscussion and Q & A, hosted by Val
J. Halamandaris.
NAHC policy staff will provide inside information on
issues of vital interest to home care and hospice providers.
Your representatives on the front lines will discuss the
latest on legislative, regulatory, legal and research developments
relative to the prospective payment system, conditions
of participation, quality monitoring and other vital issues.
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Val J. Halamandaris, JD
NAHC President |
William A. Dombi, Esq.
Vice President for Law and Director of the Center for Health Care Law |
Theresa M. Forster
Executive Vice President and Director of the Hospice Association of America |
Mary St. Pierre, MGA, BSN, RN
Vice President for Regulatory Affairs |
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Jeffrey Kincheloe, JD
Vice President for
Government Affairs, U.S. Senate |
Richard D. Brennan, Jr., MA
Deputy Director of Government Affairs and Director of the Home Care Technology Association of America |
Colin Roskey
NAHC Counsel
Alston & Bird |
Dr. Steven Landers
Center for Home Care and Community Rehabilitation Cleveland Clinic
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Monday, October 4
Sponsored by Continulink
 George W. Bush
Bush served with honor and dignity as the 43rd President of the
United States. During two terms in office, he worked to
extend freedom, opportunity, and security at home and abroad. His first initiative
as President was the No Child Left Behind Act, a bipartisan measure that
raised standards in schools and led to measurable gains in achievement, especially
among minority students. Faced with a recession when he
took office, he cut taxes, setting off an unprecedented 52 straight months
of job creation. And he modernized Medicare by adding a prescription drug
benefit that provides access to needed medicine for 40 million seniors. He
also improved air quality and made America’s
energy supply more secure, set aside more ocean resources for environmental
protection than any predecessor, nearly doubled government support for veterans,
and launched a global HIV/AIDS initiative that has spared millions of lives.
Before becoming President, he served as Governor of Texas, where he is now
building the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University
in Dallas. The Center will tell the story of a defining period in U.S. history
and serve as a platform from which world-class scholars conduct research
aimed at generating practical solutions to public policy problems.
 Alisa Ray
Executive Director, Certification Commission for Health Information
Technology (CCHIT)
Executive Director Alisa Ray supports the work of the Certification Commission
for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) boards of Commissioners and Trustees,
and its volunteer work groups. Ms. Ray manages business operations, developing
resources to carry out the Commission’s work. She executed a three-year
$7.5M federal contract to develop certification criteria and inspection processes,
and oversaw the launch of CCHIT’s EHR certification programs. She was
previously an Assistant VP of Certification and Information Products at the
National Committee for Quality Assurance. Ms. Ray received her Master’s
in Health Services Administration from the University of Michigan School
of Public Health and BS in Psychology from the University of Michigan.
Tuesday, October 5
Sponsored by The Caring Institute
23 rd Annual Caring Awards The Honorable Robert J. Dole, Chairman, and
the Trustees of the Caring Institute invite to attend the 23 rd Annual Caring
Awards Ceremony taking place during the General Session, Tuesday, October
5. The Caring Awards celebrate 6 adults, 6 youths and an international winner
who devote their lives to serving the disadvantaged, poor, disabled, and
dying.
Adult Winners
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Lance Armstrong
The great cyclist and cancer survivor has raised $350 million to support
cancer patients, spur innovation, and make cancer research a priority in
the world. |
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Cathey Brown
Cathey gives high-risk kids the help they need to stay drug and alcohol
free, cope with their dysfunctional families, make healthy choices, and believe
they have a purpose. |
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Liz McCartney & Zack
Rosenburg
Liz and Zack left their homes and high-profile careers to make a new life
in Louisiana, where they have rebuilt over 300 homes for victims of Hurricane
Katrina |
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Vicki Minor
Vicki spreads compassion like wildfire by giving money and emotional support
to families of wildland firefighters who have been injured or killed in the
line of duty. |
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Kevin Shannon, M.D.
Kevin is a pediatric cardiologist who gives children with heart disease
the chance to attend a free camp where they can experience the simple joys
of childhood. |
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International Winner
Peter H. Thomas
Canada’s foremost real estate magnate has dedicated his life to
helping the mentally ill, imparting leadership values to youth, and teaching
convicts to rebuild their lives
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Youth Winners
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Molly and Carly Houlahan,
Ages 18 and 16
Molly and Carly have raised $170,000 to “bee-t” cancer by running
a honey business that donates all its profits to cancer research centers
and clinics. |
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Amanda LaMunyon, Age 16
Amanda’s gifts for painting and singing have shown others the abilities
in the disabled and helped raise $4 million for the Children’s Miracle
Network. |
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Talia Leman, Age 15
Talia has taken kid power to a new height by guiding and funding kids from
20 countries on projects that improve life for 7,000 people. |
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Alison Mansfield, Age 15
Alison has served the ideal of civic virtue by sending our troops $250,000
worth of care packages and thousands of letters of support. |
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Joshua Williams, Age 9
Joshua has given 250,000 pounds of food, clothing, and toys to South Florida’s
poor with help from young people called Joshua’s Elves. |
Guardian Angel Award
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Hon. Robert J. Dole
Senator Dole spent 37 years in Congress serving the disabled and aged before
resuming private life, where he chairs the Caring Institute Board of Trustees. |
Mother Teresa
Caring Achievement Award
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Hon. Edward M. Kennedy
For nearly five decades, the “lion of the Senate” roared out
for those left behind by sponsoring legislation that promotes health care,
education, and civil rights |
Wednesday, October 6
Sponsored by Simione Consultants
 Chip R. Bell
Chip helps companies build cultures that support long-term customer loyalty.
As founder of The Chip Bell Group, he works from both Dallas Texas, and Atlanta,
Georgia. Before starting the firm in 1980, he was director of management
and organization development for NCNB, now Bank of America. He holds graduate
degrees from Vanderbilt University and George Washington University, so he
brings academic and real-world experience to his many publications. He is
the author or co-author of several best-selling books, including Customer
Loyalty Guaranteed, Service Magic, Customers as Partners , and his latest, Take
Their Breath Away: How Imaginative Service Creates Devoted Customers. He
is also the author of over 300 articles that have appeared in professional
journals, such as Management Review, Quality Digest, Leader to Leader,
Journal of Management Consulting, and CARING magazine.
 John Gray, Ph.D.
A Certified Family Therapist with over 30 years of experience in the field,
John Gray presents new research on working with couples and individuals as
a relationship therapist and healthy living coach from his new book Venus
on Fire, Mars on Ice . Gray shows us how the unique and often frustrating
differences between men and women can actually be used to turn our relationships
into a fountain of youth. An expert in the field of communication, Gray’s
focus is to help men and women understand, respect and appreciate their differences
in both personal and professional relationships. He provides simple, practical
tools and insights to effectively manage stress and improve relationships
at all stages and ages by creating the brain and body chemistry of health,
happiness and lasting romance. John Gray is a consulting editor of The
Family Journal and a member of the Distinguished Advisory Board of the
International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors. He is a recipient
of the coveted the Smart Marriages Impact Award.
Val J. Halamandaris, JD
For the past 29 years, Val J. Halamandaris has guided NAHC to become one
of the most respected Associations in Washington, D.C. Halamandaris is a
Utah native and worked his way through college on the staff of Sen. Frank
E. Moss, and continued working full time as he completed his law degree from
Catholic University Law School. He served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Special
Committee on Aging and the U.S. House Select Committee on Aging. In a congressional
career that spanned 20 years, he helped to write major home health, hospice
and aging bills into law. He is also an attorney, author, publisher, editor,
producer of films for television, a published photographer and a humanitarian.
Halamandaris has founded The Caring Institute, The Frederick Douglass Museum,
The Foundation for Hospice and Home Care, The Center for Health Care Law, CARING Magazine
and The World Home Care and Hospice Organization. Most recently, he helped
found the Home Care Technology Association of America, the Private Duty Homecare
Association of America and the Home Care and Hospice Financial Managers Association.
Halamandaris has won many awards, including the National Ellis Island Award
in 2003, and has been one of the nation’s most acknowledged experts
on the U.S. Congress and in the fields of health care and aging for more
than 40 years.
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