Speakers: Donna Graham, Vice President, Revenue Cycle, MetroHealth Medical Center; Kinsey Jolliff, Principal, Health Policy & Payment Innovation, The MetroHealth System. Staffing shortages, rising expenses, supply chain issues and limited bed availability are major problems for the healthcare industry. All this leads to funding challenges. How does it affect the average patient?
Speaker: Tom Sutton PhD, Director, Community Research Institute, Baldwin Wallace University Inflation, gas prices, guns violence abortion and democracy itself. All are on the ballot. The party that occupies the White House historically loses an average of 25 seats in the midterms. Gerrymandering is often the deciding factor. Will money and slogans determine the outcome? … Continue reading Midterm Elections: Meltdown, Referendum or Party Switching?
Speaker: Kristin Hall, Executive Director, Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District; Judy Huichun Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, CWRU Lake Erie is an asset of Ohio that is taken for granted. Gov. DeWine signed into law HB 175 that exempts from pollution regulations of all Ohio tributaries not protected by the Clean Water … Continue reading Water: You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘til It’s Gone
Speaker: Bethia Burke, President, Cleveland-based Fund for our Economic Future; Jacob Duritsky, Vice President, Strategy & Research, Team Northeast Ohio (Team NEO) Studies show that labor shortages are still prevalent despite that the pandemic is under better control. Do they contribute to the downturn in the economy? What are the causes? What does the future … Continue reading Labor Shortage: What’s the Future in NE Ohio and Beyond?
Speakers: Brian Hoffman, Esq., Executive Director, Ohio Center for Strategic Immigration Litigation; Patrick Kearns, Executive Director, The Refugee Response Normally, 3,000 immigrants come to Cleveland annually. In 2019 there were … Continue reading Immigration, Refugees, DACA and the Future
Speakers: Mark Weber, Retired KSU Dean, Library Services, and Activist Leader of Jewish, Secular and Labor Organizations. Hatred of Jews, Muslims and any other group is wrong. How can we … Continue reading Anti-Semitism: Beliefs and Facts
Speakers: Darcy Freedman, PhD, Professor, CWRU School of MedicineJulie Johnson, CEO, The Hunger Network. Food insecurity has increased since the pandemic, with an estimated 226,000 people hungry in Cuyahoga County … Continue reading Food Insecurity Challenges & Solutions
Speaker: Sadeer Al-Kindi, MD, Cardiologist, University Hospitals. In the 1930s, banks began drawing red lines around neighborhoods that were at higher risk for defaulting on mortgage and business loans. Recent … Continue reading Impact of Redlining & Hospital Closures
Speaker(s): Meryl Johnson, retired teacher and member, Ohio Board of Education, District 11; Felton Thomas, Executive Director & CEO, Cleveland Public Library; Owen Ganor, Student, Rocky River High School. Moderator: Margaret Nash, PhD, educator, author of Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights In 1974, an Ohio guidance school counselor was … Continue reading Censorship
Speaker: Alex Czayka, Chief Conservation Officer, Western Reserve Land Conservancy Natural lands that could fall prey to commercial developers can be conserved and restored for future generations with the assistance of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy. The Conservancy has permanently protected almost 70,000 acres of land, helped create and expand more than 200 public parks … Continue reading Western Reserve Land Conservancy
Speaker: J.B. Silvers, PhD, CWRU Weatherhead School of Management and School of Medicine Medicare is being “privatized” via Medicare Advantage (MA), the corporate alternative to traditional Medicare. MA is publicly financed but run by private insurance corporations. The administrative cost of Medicare: 2%; MA’s administrative cost: 20-40%. MA is used by almost 50% of the … Continue reading Medicare Privatization
Speaker(s): Randi Pokladnik, PhD, retired Research Chemist, Environmental Activist; Emily Obringer, Conservation Program Coordinator, Sierra Club In an attempt to move from carbon-based fuels, including Ohio-fracked natural gas and oil, the petrochemical industry is offering Ohioans an opportunity to utilize excess fracked material for manufacturing products such as plastic and resins on the Ohio River … Continue reading Plastics Are in Us
