 Health Matters’ Own Your Health Lunch and Learns
This fall, Health Matters is proud to present a series of lunch and learns as part of the Own Your Health campaign. - Find out what you can get from a primary care doctor that you can’t get from any other doc.
- Discover the secret to wellness.
- Learn about promising new practice models, like medical home, that are right here in our area.
- Understand when medical research counts and when opinion counts.
- And much more…
This series will empower you with tools and information so you are the driver’s seat when it comes to your health care.
 Dr. Matt Handley – The key to wellness
Wednesday, September 7, 12:30 – 1:30 pm, Chinook Room 123
Capacity: 60
View this presention in a flash video (approx 31 minutes long) Dr. Handley is associate medical director, Quality and Informatics for Group Health Cooperative. He is an international expert on clinic guidelines for preventing and treating cardiovascular disease. Additional Reading:
 Panel – King County Employee Health and Well Being Progress Report
Friday, September 23, 11:45 am – 12:45 pm, Chinook Room 115
Capacity: 25
View this presentation in a flash video (approx 37 minutes long) Dr. John Scoggins, King County Healthcare Economist, Karleen Sakumoto, Program Director, King County Employee Health and Well Being, and Kerry Schaefer, Strategic Benefits Planning, King County Employee Health and Well Being. We are getting older and healthier. And our costs are moderating. Hear from this panel about how the King County Healthy Incentives program is providing measurable results. Additional Reading:
John Gallagher – Patient Empowerment Training
Monday, October 3, 12:15 – 1:15 pm, Chinook Room 126
Capacity: 26 Mr. Gallagher is the Director of Communications and Development for the Puget Sound Health Alliance. Join this interactive training about how you can recognize quality health care and build a successful partnership with your health care team. Additional Reading:
Panel – King County Employee Health and Well Being Progress Report Thursday, October 20, 12:45 – 1:45, King Street Center 8th Floor Conference Center
Capacity: 100
Rsvp to brooke.bascom@kingcounty.gov Dr. John Scoggins, King County Healthcare Economist, Karleen Sakumoto, Program Director, King County Employee Health and Well Being, and Kerry Schaefer, Strategic Benefits Planning, King County Employee Health and Well Being. We are getting older and healthier. And our costs are moderating. Hear from this panel about how the King County Healthy Incentives program is providing measurable results. Additional Reading:
 Dr. Wellesley Chapman – How to Get the Most out of Your Primary Care Doctor
Tuesday, November 8, Noon – 1:00, Chinook Rooms 121 and 123
Capacity: 100
View this presentation in a video (total 1hour, 1 minute long) Dr. Wellesley Chapman is a Family Physician and Medical Center Chief at Group Health’s Burien Medical Center. He graduated from the University of Washington Medical School and did his residency in Family Medicine at Swedish Hospital. His philosophy of care is “Very simply, I put my patients at the center of their health care and work with them to define and achieve their health goals.” Additional Reading:
Panel – Patient Centered Medical Home, a promising new practice modelDue to lack of rsvp's, this Lunch and Learn is cancelled. Dr. Marty Levine, Medical Center Chief, Group Health Northgate Medical Center.
Dr. Reena Koshy, Project Coordinator Medical Home Pilot, Puget Sound Health Alliance.
Additional Reading:
Panel – King County Employee Health and Well Being Progress Report Wednesday, November 16, 12:15 – 1:15 Chinook Room 115
Capacity: 25
Rsvp to brooke.bascom@kingcounty.gov Dr. John Scoggins, King County Healthcare Economist, Karleen Sakumoto, Program Director, King County Employee Health and Well Being, and Kerry Schaefer, Strategic Benefits Planning, King County Employee Health and Well Being. We are getting older and healthier. And our costs are moderating. Hear from this panel about how the King County Healthy Incentives program is providing measurable results. Additional Reading: | 
