DHFS Secretary Nelson to Speak at BQA Focus 2005
Helene Nelson, the Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, will be speaking over lunch at the BQA’s “Focus 2005 – Collaborating for Quality, Wisconsin Working Together” conference in Appleton on August 10. Secretary Nelson has served under five governors, and has a great deal of experience working with health care public policy. She is also a co-founder of the Center for Patient Partnerships at UW-Madison, which promotes more patient-centered health care. Secretary Nelson is a graduate of Oberlin College; she and her husband, Jim Arts, reside in Madison. (Biographical information from the DHFS website.)
If you have not registered for the conference, the deadline was Tuesday – but we have heard from BQA that they will be accepting registrations through the end of the day TODAY (Thursday, July 28). Register here.