Our Philosophy
Keeping in mind ProMedica Health System’s core values of collaboration, community-based, compassion, excellence, integrity and stewardship, the Community & Government Relations and Advocacy department represents significant contributions to area agencies and organizations. Whether through time, talent, or financial contributions, ProMedica helps groups to meet their goals, as well as attain their individual vision and mission.
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Featured Information
Health Care Reform Questions and Answers
Recently, health care reform has been in the news almost daily and as
proposed changes make their way through the federal legislature; you
may have questions about how these changes will affect you and
ProMedica Health System. To that end, we will answer questions about
reform here on this web page regularly.
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Fields of Green
Fields of Green, an umbrella for a variety of education, health and nutrition programs developed by ProMedica Health System.
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GrassRoots Green
The mission of
GrassRoots Green is to create a collaboration of hospital employees, volunteers, physicians, board members and other key stakeholders that are educated about political issues and engaged with elected officials. GrassRoots Green programs are active in the South, East, West, and North Regions, and a Central Region program is slated to begin in late 2010. To learn more about our programs or become involved with GrassRoots Green, please
visit the GrassRoots Green site.
Resources
Understanding How the Economic Downturn Affects Health Care Industry
Hospitals and health care systems are the second largest private-sector employer in the United States, providing 5 million jobs nationally. During this economic downturn, not only are our hospitals caring for the health of the communities they serve, but they are indeed the economic engine of the community.
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The Ohio Hospital Association's Glossary of Health Care Terms
The Ohio Hospital Association's Glossary of Health Care Terms provides a brief, easy-to-use and easy-to-understand list of health care and legislative terms that can help those in health care, as well as the community at large, better comprehend the evolving health care delivery system.
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OHA Position On Conflict Of Interest Legislation
The Ohio Hospital Association backs legislation to extend state law on
physician conflict of interest to inpatient hospital services.
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OHA Talking Points – Physician Self Referral
ProMedica Corporate Speakers Bureau
ProMedica’s Corporate Speakers Bureau is offered through the department of Community & Government Relations and Advocacy, and is designed to provide speakers on a variety of health, wellness, and health care industry topics to groups throughout our service region. From school presentations to keynote addresses, the
ProMedica’s Corporate Speakers Bureau can tailor a program to meet your group’s needs. Best of all, this service is provided free-of-charge to the community.
To schedule a speaker, or learn more about ProMedica's Speakers Bureau, call 419-469-3704, or e-mail us at
speakers@promedica.org.
Legislative Directory
Download the 2009 ProMedica Health System Legislative Directory.
The download is currently available as a Microsoft® Excel® document.
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Kids Corner
How a Bill Becomes a State Law
Do you ever wonder how the laws that govern our state came to be? Is there a law that you think should be changed? If so, there is a process that private citizens (like you), businesses and legislators use to pass new laws or amend (change) our current laws.
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