What does health care reform do for women? When a majority of women want and use birth control, why are we having a national debate about insurance coverage of contraception? Hear from the National Women’s Law Center’s senior health policy analyst Anna Benyo, as she gives us the scoop on benefits impacting women. Join us Friday morning, March 23, 2012, for Women’s Health Today at 8am MST on KUNM 89.9fm or kunm.org.
Contraception issues, nursing breaks on tap as women’s health advocates discuss health reform at Tuesday UNM event
– Media Advisory –
Groups to highlight nursing breaks and other benefits such as contraception in Affordable Care Act
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 20th – Women’s health advocates will be on UNM’s campus on Tuesday, March 20th, to educate students about important new benefits in the Affordable Care Act for women. These benefits include nursing breaks for new mothers, contraception coverage and new preventative care benefits coming online in 2012. This event is part of a series of events celebrating the two-year anniversary of the passage of ACA this week.
WHO: State of Women’s Health New Mexico and several other community-based women’s health organizations
WHAT: Event calling attention to nursing breaks in health reform law as well as new benefits in 2012
WHERE: University of New Mexico. Student Union Building Atrium
WHEN: March 20, 2012 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
###
Women’s Health Congress 2012
March 16-18, 2012
Washington, DC
Widespread Praise for the Annual Congress on Women’s Health
“The Women’s Health Congress is, year after year, the most exciting and innovative update on the whole gamut of women’s health issues I know. And it’s a tremendous value for CME dollars.”
John Partridge, MD, Richmond, VA
“I can honestly say that it was the best medical conference I have ever attended. The quality of the talks was consistently excellent, and the topics were great and on target. Even though there were various types of providers present, there was something to learn from each presentation for NP’s, docs, primary care, and OB’s.”
Barbara Gottlieb, MD, MPH, Harvard
“Excellent program…I will definitely spread the word to my colleagues.”
Yolanda Hacker, M.D., Atlanta
“The lectures were topical and the discussions were spirited. Befriending some wonderfully dynamic women was an added bonus.”
Cathy Sila, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Foundation
“It was a pleasure to hear cutting-edge information presented by high-powered speakers in such a friendly environment.”
Ann Morrison, R.N., Johns Hopkins
Health and Human Rights Lecture
UNM Public Health Program
Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Lecture
“Moving from Science to Policy and Practice: Building Healthier
Communities based on Human Rights”
Brian Smedley, PhD
Vice President and Director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Washington, DC.
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: National Hispanic Cultural Center (Bank of America Auditorium)
1701 4th Street SW
Seating is limited. Please plan to arrive early.
New Birth Report Shows NM With Lowest Rate of C-Sections
Read the report here.
Women’s Health Today – December Promo
Tune in to Women’s Health Today hosted by Giovanna Rossi on December 23 at 8am on KUNM 89.9fm or online at kunm.org. The show will feature Dr. Saralyn Mark, sex and gender based health expert and NASA medical consultant, who will discuss her new book “Stellar Medicine: A Journey Through Women’s Health”. Also on the show: important information you may not know about the impact of health care reform on women in New Mexico.
Listen to the promo here.
Film Screening: The Business of Being Born
The Feminist Research Institute and the Women’s Resource Center invite you:
Film Screening: The Business of Being Born
Followed by a panel discussion with healthcare professionals
Tuesday, November 8th, 6:30-9:00 pm
Anthropology room 163
Speakers:
Joel Teicher, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Obstetrics Gynecology atUNM
Julie Gorwoda, CNM MSN, Director of Nurse-Midwifery Education at UNM
Kelly Camden, LM on Albuquerque Birth Network Board of Directors
Marie Meakin, RN, BSN, L&D Nurse, Birthing from Within Instructor
Karen Brown, Doula and Leader of Birth Talk, Los Alamos
Connie Koshewa, LM, CPM, MPH
The Business of Being Born:
Filmmaker Abby Epstein and actress Ricki Lake collaborate to explore how
childbirth is treated in America. Is birth a natural, safe process,
or a medical phenomenon with the potential to go seriously wrong? Many
current points of view are explored in this powerful documentary.
The free film screening will be followed by a panel discussion of six local
childbirth professionals. They will discuss their perspectives, relate the
film to the local community, and answer questions from the audience.
Come join us on Tuesday, November 8th at 6:30 p.m. in the Anthropology
Building room 163. See attached flier for more details. For further
information, please email femresin@unm.edu. This event is presented by the
Feminist Research Institute and The Women’s Resource Center.
Profile Provides Data on Women’s Health
This Profile was compiled at the Women’s Health Office in 2009 and provides great information for New Mexico community members and policy makers. WomensHealthProfileFinal
Albuquerque Journal Letter to the Editor
Printed in Talk of the Town October 11, 2011
Finally, Health Care That Works For All
THE NEW health care law is already having a positive effect on health care costs in New Mexico. Part of why premium increases are slowing is because of the protections the law affords.
The health law provides states with funding to help us better evaluate huge spikes in insurance premiums. These dollars provide states with the capacity to bring greater transparency to the insurance market by reviewing rate increases, which ultimately helps to drive down premiums and hold insurance companies accountable.
Ever-rising premiums have hampered women’s ability to afford health insurance. Not only does this new law help to reduce insurance premiums, but it protects women from discriminatory health insurance practices, and makes coverage more secure by ensuring that working families cannot be denied care due to a pre-existing condition.
The law also provides basic preventative health care and women’s health services with no-copy, which reduces the amount of out-of-pocket costs women would have had to spend on needed care. The law not only helps women and families in New Mexico, but it makes good economic sense.
According to the nonpartisan congressional budget office, the health care law will reduce the federal deficit by $143 billion in the first 10 years and by more than $1 trillion in the second 10 years.
GIOVANNA ROSSI PRESSLEY
Albuquerque
Policy Briefing on Women and Health Care Reform
November 2, 2011 9:00-11:30am
Albuquerque Crowne Plaza Hotel
(formerly Albuquerque Hilton)
1901 University Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM
RSVP here.
Policy Briefing with National Women’s Law Center VP for Health, Judy Waxman, J.D.
Judy Waxman is the Vice President of Health and Reproductive Rights at the National Women’s Law Center. She pioneers advocacy, policy and educational strategies to promote the quality and availability of health care, including reproductive choice, for American women. Prior to joining the National Women’s Law Center, Ms. Waxman served as Deputy Executive Director at Families USA for over a decade. She holds a law degree from American University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami, in Florida.
A panel of experts will follow:
Joan LaMunyon Sanford, NM Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and Raising Women’s Voices
Justina Trott, Women’s Health Services and RWJ CHP Women’s Health Policy Unit
Barbara K.Webber, Health Action New Mexico
Jane Wishner, Southwest Women’s Law Center
This event is FREE but RSVP is required.
Event sponsored by:
RWJF CHP at UNM Women’s Health Policy Unit
Gender Impacts Policy, a project of the Center of Southwest Culture
State of Women: A partnership between National Women’s Law Center and Gender Impacts Policy