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{ timecode: 0, handler: 'blob', id: 1, data: {text: 'DAVID WHITE: Good morning! Could everybody please take their seats? I think it says it’s 9 o’clock, by at least my watch and that clock up there, so I guess we should get started. My name '}},
{ timecode: 19, handler: 'blob', id: 2, data: {text: 'is David White. I am the president of Coordinated Transportation Solutions, a not-for-profit mobility manager in Ansonia, Connecticut. We provide Medicaid nonemergency medical transportation services '}},
{ timecode: 37, handler: 'blob', id: 3, data: {text: 'in Connecticut and New York, other areas that might need it. We provide services to about 300,000 Medicaid clients in Connecticut and New York as well as special education transportation services and '}},
{ timecode: 55, handler: 'blob', id: 4, data: {text: 'injured worker services throughout really the eastern part of the United States. I am also, the other hat I wear, and very proud of it, is that I am the New England representative on the CTAA board of '}},
{ timecode: 71, handler: 'blob', id: 5, data: {text: 'directors and have been now for I think about 14 years. It’s a position I hold and feel very good about. I want to welcome you to today’s Partnerships Wellness Conference here at CTAA. '}},
{ timecode: 90, handler: 'blob', id: 6, data: {text: 'This is a great crowd. I think we’re going to have about, I think we have about 130 registrations. Some people still coming in, very pleased to have you here. It really shows how important a '}},
{ timecode: 104, handler: 'blob', id: 7, data: {text: 'subject this is to all of you. I was talking to Valerie Miller a few minutes ago. We’ve been, CTAA has really taken on the whole medical transportation issue over the last five or ten years and '}},
{ timecode: 120, handler: 'blob', id: 8, data: {text: 'I think, we’ve had a number of session at Expos or conferences around the country concerning medical transportation and they have always been a sellout. It has been just a burning issue for our '}},
{ timecode: 135, handler: 'blob', id: 9, data: {text: 'members and folks that work with us and they’ve always been really well attended, as I think obviously this conference will be. So, we’re very pleased to have you here. Couple of '}},
{ timecode: 149, handler: 'blob', id: 10, data: {text: 'housekeeping issues to clear up before we get going. First, I want to thank Charles Dickson, Valerie Miller, Pamela, and Ginger, and Janice from the CTAA staff for their help getting this conference '}},
{ timecode: 167, handler: 'blob', id: 11, data: {text: 'off. We couldn’t have done it obviously without them and if everyone would please, let me ask them to please stand up first, let’s do that, so everybody knows where they are. Okay. Give '}},
{ timecode: 177, handler: 'blob', id: 12, data: {text: 'them a round of applause. They’re going to be around, obviously for the next couple of days and, I know Valerie’s got her business cards in the back, I think. On the back table. '}},
{ timecode: 195, handler: 'blob', id: 13, data: {text: 'They’ll be available for questions or any help you need during the conference. They’ve been really great, and they’re a wealth of knowledge about this subject and certainly will be '}},
{ timecode: 207, handler: 'blob', id: 14, data: {text: 'able to help you with any logistics that you have over the next couple of days. I want to thank also, starting today, thank all of our moderators and panelists for joining us today and tomorrow. '}},
{ timecode: 224, handler: 'blob', id: 15, data: {text: 'You’ll get to know them. And then, obviously one of the number ones, let’s either put on vibrate or turn off all of our cell phones, and I’ll be the first to check mine. And mine is '}},
{ timecode: 242, handler: 'blob', id: 16, data: {text: 'still on, so let’s do that and get that out of the way. And there’s a ring. Restrooms, I know are on this floor. I think they’re out and down to the left, if anyone should require '}},
{ timecode: 259, handler: 'blob', id: 17, data: {text: 'them. This is the first time, I think, that our conferences are being videotaped, so if anybody wants to like go out and change and come back, you have like five minutes to do it. Also, like no '}},
{ timecode: 278, handler: 'blob', id: 18, data: {text: 'jumping up on the tables or anything like that. Remember we’re on camera. Those video tapes will be available on the web at some point, I believe, is that what I heard Valerie? Two weeks after '}},
{ timecode: 296, handler: 'blob', id: 19, data: {text: 'the conference they’ll be out on the web so that you can see what we’ve all accomplished over the next couple of days. Lunch today is on your own. Tomorrow we have the conference luncheon '}},
{ timecode: 310, handler: 'blob', id: 20, data: {text: 'that will not only include this conference, but everything else that is going on over the next couple of days. There are, for today, a number of great restaurants, of course around Providence within '}},
{ timecode: 322, handler: 'blob', id: 21, data: {text: 'walking, and this is from 12:00 to 1:30, there are a couple of great pubs within a couple of blocks from here that I’m sure the folks in the registration area can help you with. But, I do want '}},
{ timecode: 336, handler: 'blob', id: 22, data: {text: 'to remind you that on behalf of all your employers I’m sure drinking of alcoholic beverages while you’re on duty, as I’m sure you all are, is strictly prohibited. I think that '}},
{ timecode: 350, handler: 'blob', id: 23, data: {text: 'probably covers all of the housekeeping items that I should go over. So, to get us started I always kind of like to figure out who’s in the room. You know, what everybody’s up to, where '}},
{ timecode: 365, handler: 'blob', id: 24, data: {text: 'they’re from, that kind of thing. So, could everybody from the six New England states raise their hand? Okay, so we got a pretty good representation. That’s great. Okay. Could everybody '}},
{ timecode: 378, handler: 'blob', id: 25, data: {text: 'from the West Coast raise their hands? Okay, great. Now, could everybody from the six New England states make sure that everybody from the West Coast has a lot of coffee available to them, because '}},
{ timecode: 393, handler: 'blob', id: 26, data: {text: 'they’re probably all on jet lag. Okay. Is there anybody that’s farther away than the West Coast? Okay. Somebody’s registered from Hawaii. This gentleman here. So, I think maybe '}},
{ timecode: 408, handler: 'blob', id: 27, data: {text: 'you’ve may have won the longest distance award. Sir. Well, I’ll tell you what, Mr. Birney, let’s make sure you don’t get any coffee and if you want to just go to sleep, that '}},
{ timecode: 431, handler: 'blob', id: 28, data: {text: 'would be okay. Welcome, Doug. And thanks for that comment. Okay. Let me ask you a couple of other questions. How many public or not-for-profit transportation providers do we have in the audience? And '}},
{ timecode: 450, handler: 'blob', id: 29, data: {text: 'if you guys could write those down, sort of take a little poll on that. Public or not-for-profit transportation providers. Just a quick sort of summary. Doesn’t have to be too scientific. Okay. '}},
{ timecode: 485, handler: 'blob', id: 30, data: {text: 'Do we have any private providers of transportation services? Okay, we have a couple of those guys. I really want to welcome you all, the private providers to the CTAA Expo and to this conference. '}},
{ timecode: 507, handler: 'blob', id: 31, data: {text: 'It’s been my experience as a transportation broker or mobility manager for 12 years now in the Medicaid arena especially that the private sector plays an absolutely critical role in the '}},
{ timecode: 526, handler: 'blob', id: 32, data: {text: 'provision of transportation services in the health care system and I’m very pleased to have you here and thanks for coming. Okay. How many social service providers, social service agencies are '}},
{ timecode: 541, handler: 'blob', id: 33, data: {text: 'here? Put up high so we can……you may provide transportation services but also provide social services to your members, to clients. Great. Okay. Great. And, how many, we know one anyway, '}},
{ timecode: 568, handler: 'blob', id: 34, data: {text: 'how many federal, state, or local DOT, DSS, or HHS representatives do we have in the audience? Ahh. Okay. Could you guys all keep those hands up. Now, everybody else turn around, take a look, because '}},
{ timecode: 588, handler: 'blob', id: 35, data: {text: 'they’re the ones paying’ the bills and they’re probably the only ones paying the bills today. So, that’s great, and thank you, thank you all for coming. We really do appreciate '}},
{ timecode: 598, handler: 'blob', id: 36, data: {text: 'it. Welcome. Okay. Few other questions, a little survey we’re taking here. Well, first I want to do a definition and then we have another survey we’re going to take, and then I’m '}},
{ timecode: 613, handler: 'blob', id: 37, data: {text: 'going to introduce our morning speaker. I went to the dictionary, I have a hard copy dictionary of Webster’s dictionary back home and I forgot to bring it, so I had to go online of course and I '}},
{ timecode: 630, handler: 'blob', id: 38, data: {text: 'went to Webster’s and I looked up two words, partnerships and wellness. And it popped up and it gave me the date of the, I guess of when the words were made up or discovered, or whatever. And it '}},
{ timecode: 648, handler: 'blob', id: 39, data: {text: 'turned out the partnerships was discovered or made in 1576 and I don’t know if Valerie or Charlie meant it this way, but what popped up with partnerships was all this legal stuff, you know, '}},
{ timecode: 667, handler: 'blob', id: 40, data: {text: 'contracts and all that kind of thing. Oh, let me ask you this first. How many lawyers in the room? Oh, we have one. Okay, well, then he probably understands this. All this stuff about contract and all '}},
{ timecode: 682, handler: 'blob', id: 41, data: {text: 'that kind of thing. I said, ohh I don’t know if I really want to focus on that too much. So, I’m going to focus on involving close cooperation between partners. That’s what '}},
{ timecode: 696, handler: 'blob', id: 42, data: {text: 'partnerships in my mind is about. Close cooperation. And then wellness, I looked up wellness and that came into being in 1653. About the same time the great state of Rhode Island and some of these '}},
{ timecode: 714, handler: 'blob', id: 43, data: {text: 'colonies here in New England and some of the ones to the south of us came into being as well. That’s defined as the quality or state of being in good health, especially as an activity, actively '}},
{ timecode: 738, handler: 'blob', id: 44, data: {text: 'sought goal. Especially, as an actively sought goal. So, it seems, that’s what we are about these two days to use some very good old words in order to work in close interdisciplinary cooperation '}},
{ timecode: 759, handler: 'blob', id: 45, data: {text: 'to seek a goal of good health for our communities, because what I think we’ve shown here is that we’ve got funders and providers and social service agencies hopefully coming together to '}},
{ timecode: 773, handler: 'blob', id: 46, data: {text: 'promote a common good in our communities. And I think that’s what this conference, I hope, is about. Let’s go on to this little survey now, that I’ve come up with. What I’d '}},
{ timecode: 790, handler: 'blob', id: 47, data: {text: 'like to ask is if everybody, the folks, if you would raise your hand. If you transport, pay for the transportation of or care for the following; pregnant moms. Okay. Just a rough count. Infants. Okay. '}},
{ timecode: 819, handler: 'blob', id: 48, data: {text: 'Great. Okay. Children. Wow, a lot of kids. Yeah. Okay. Behavioral health programs, you know after school, methadone, not that they’re synonymous, but. Although, sometimes I wonder. Injured '}},
{ timecode: 843, handler: 'blob', id: 49, data: {text: 'workers. Okay a few of those. Am I going to fast, guys? Sorry. Okay. Dental visits. Dental. Wow. Hold them up for a second. Okay, got them Valerie? Dialysis. Oh man, okay. Cancer care. Cancer '}},
{ timecode: 887, handler: 'blob', id: 50, data: {text: 'patients. Just about everybody. Dialysis and cancer. Okay. Preventative care. Wow. Okay, just about everybody. Veterans, care for our veterans. Half the room. Okay. Specialty care. You know, '}},
{ timecode: 912, handler: 'blob', id: 51, data: {text: 'specialists, just going to specialists. Just about everybody. Okay. Nursing homes. Half the room I guess, little over half maybe. Hospice care, end of life care, hospice, end of life…..a third, '}},
{ timecode: 934, handler: 'blob', id: 52, data: {text: 'quarter, third of the room. Okay. Well I guess what really is going on here I think, the message, the point is that we as transportation providers, managers, funders, caregivers, is that we’re '}},
{ timecode: 955, handler: 'blob', id: 53, data: {text: 'involved in the proverbial cradle to the grave. And we are a critical component of the health care business. And that business is changing. You know, very quickly, and I just will quickly mention this '}},
{ timecode: 976, handler: 'blob', id: 54, data: {text: 'and then I’m going to introduce our morning speaker. I’m sure you all got in your room this morning the USA Today, and at the bottom of the front page the headline was, ‘Hazards '}},
{ timecode: 990, handler: 'blob', id: 55, data: {text: 'Remain and Push to Revamp Health care, and the second paragraph says that, “this year’s fast track time table on health care calls for leaders of key congressional committees to unveil '}},
{ timecode: 1005, handler: 'blob', id: 56, data: {text: 'legislation this month, debate it next month and pass it before leaving for summer recess in August. Final passes would follow in September or October before next year’s elections start to '}},
{ timecode: 1016, handler: 'blob', id: 57, data: {text: 'complicate things”. It appears and Senator Max Baucus from Montana is quoted in here, my senator, Senator Dodd from Connecticut and of course Senator Kennedy from Massachusetts is heavily '}},
{ timecode: 1032, handler: 'blob', id: 58, data: {text: 'involved in this. It appears that health care; this may be the year for health care reform. Now, what that means is open to anybody’s definition, but it’s coming and I think we as '}},
{ timecode: 1049, handler: 'blob', id: 59, data: {text: 'transportation providers and constituents, it’s incumbent on us to be part of that discussion and part of that, because it’s going to impact all of us and all of our programs.'}},
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