Join colleagues and partners from across the state to network, reflect, and work toward health policy solutions in North Carolina. The 2024 North Carolina Institute of Medicine Annual Meeting, will center on long-term services and supports, recognizing our state’s aging demographics and the workforce needed to meet their needs.
Robert Espinoza, MPA, is our 2024 annual meeting keynote speaker and a prominent advocate and thought leader in the fields of workforce, aging, and caregiving. Mr. Espinoza is the Chief Executive Officer of National Skills Coalition, which fights for a national commitment to inclusive, high-quality skills training so that more people have access to a better life, and more local businesses see sustained growth. Prior to his role at the National Skills Coalition, Robert served as the Executive Vice President of Policy at PHI, the nation’s foremost organization focused on the direct care workforce. For nearly a decade, he directed the organization’s award-winning national advocacy, research, and public education division. In recognition of his innovative contributions, Robert was selected for the inaugural CARE100 list in 2020, recognizing him as one of the most forward-thinking individuals reshaping the landscape of caregiving in America. Robert serves as the Board Chair of the American Society on Aging and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
The NCIOM Annual Meeting will offer a deep dive into innovations in care delivery, innovations in payment, Medicare and Medicaid, multigenerational challenges, and much more. A legislative roundtable featuring state lawmakers will provide participants the opportunity to hear from policymakers regarding their priorities for action.
The 2024 NCIOM Annual Meeting will take place on November 21, 2024 from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm at the McKimmon Conference and Training Center in Raleigh, NC.
Sponsorship for the 2024 annual meeting is now available. Please click here to learn more!
NCIOM's 2023 annual meeting highlighted the factors that influence the health and well-being of our state’s children, from social drivers of health to protective supports at the family, individual, and community levels.
NCIOM's 2022 annual meeting focused on the challenges of recruitment, retention, and support for North Carolina’s workforce for health.
The NCIOM's 2021 Annual Meeting explored the behavioral health goals identified by the Healthy NC 2030 initiative. The meeting featured expert speakers on topics including substance use and overdose, access to behavioral health services, suicide prevention, and adverse childhood experiences.
The NCIOM's 2020 Annual Meeting explored research on the long-term potential impacts of foregone care due to COVID-19 on population health and the health system. Panelists and speakers discussed the factors that drove these impacts, such as changes in insurance coverage, capacity of the health system, changes to models of care and payment models, and drivers of health.
The NCIOM's 2019 Annual Meeting discussed Medicaid transformation in North Carolina. Discussion topics included the Healthy Opportunities Pilots, the NCCARE360 resource platform, navigating the transition, monitoring, oversight, evaluation, and special populations, as well presentations by representatives from each of the Medicaid Prepaid Health Plans.
The NCIOM's 2018 Annual Meeting explored how practices and systems across the state are evolving from coordinated care to team-based care models. While coordinated care has been widely embraced and implemented across North Carolina, true team-based care is still an elusive target for many health systems and providers. Team-based care has the potential to improve efficiency, effectiveness, value, outcomes, and patient and provider satisfaction. However, profound changes in culture and organization of care, education and training, financing, the fundamental nature of interactions.
The NCIOM's 2017 Annual Meeting focused on how community organizations, health systems, insurers, and others can share responsibility for the health of our communities using an accountable care communities model. Accountable care communities address health from a community perspective, pulling multiple stakeholders together in a coalition that shares responsibility for addressing multiple determinants of health. Accountable care communities use collaborative and integrated strategies to promote health, prevent disease, and ensure access to quality services.