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House
Healthcare Committee Meets in Sylvania
Committee Discusses Healthcare Models with Professionals from Around
Ohio
COLUMBUS—The Ohio House Healthcare Efficiencies Study Committee today
held its first hearing at the ProMedica Flower Hospital in Sylvania.
The committee, chaired by State Representative Dr. Steve Huffman
(R-Tipp City), held a graduate medical education panel to discuss
healthcare models in Northwest Ohio that the Ohio House can help
support and promote.
"I was very appreciative of the discussion between the committee and
our expert panel on Graduate Medical Education," Huffman said. "We
learned about the need for more primary care physicians in Ohio, and
the intricacies of GME funding. Today was the first step to discovering
how Ohio can work to make healthcare more efficient."
In addition to House members serving on the committee, healthcare
professionals from around the state joined the discussion. Dr. Robert
Frederick (ProMedica), Dr. Christopher Cooper (University of Toledo),
Dr. Andrew Thomas (The Ohio State University), Dr. Ken Bertka (American
Academy of Family Physicians), Dr. Robert E. Kose (Ohio State Medical
Association) and Dr. Timothy Barreiro (St. Elizabeth Youngstown
Hospital) participated in the panel.
The next meeting of the Ohio House Healthcare Efficiencies Study
Committee, the second of four planned meetings around the state, will
take place on Tuesday, September 8th at 1:00 p.m. at Shawnee State
University in Portsmouth, Ohio.
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