Benefit is and what you get through the smile way benefit. So that is why there is the difference in the flyers. But we have been promoting these at the health fair. I actually helped two of your retirees in role at the health fair just recently. They were really excited to learn about the program and that was really the conversation that we had during the Health Affairs the next slide is what you are currently doing. You are promoting on your plan resource section the delta dental wellness highlight. So both of the flyers are on your website and you also have a smile way Program Section and it actually gives the instructions to members on how they can and role in the plan. And then what i didnt put on here, and im so sorry, but you did promote smile way. You have, both in the retiree and the active benefit guides for 2020. You have a paragraph and there is a smile way pattern on there. And also there is a little footer on the benefit summary page in case they didnt read the content. T
Behaviors as a result of addiction. The Ripple Effect is pretty large. So many, many City Employees are experiencing the stress of their work today. So, like, three those three employees cant handle too many people, so do they refer to your health plan . Do they have contacts within the health plan that they send people do . They do. So thats the health plan liaison where we have direct phones, direct lines, and all three of our e. A. P. Counselors do utilize those. I am somewhat familiar as a Police Officer with the model there. I imagine that the model that im familiar with is is, from what it sounds like, trying to mirror for all members, which would be helpful to have a list of what is my understanding acceptable vendors to provide these services. I understand that three people cant provide these services to every member that might have a need. Is that the model that were trying to replicate for all City Employees . So right now, what were trying to make sure is the care that they
Welcome to the texas book festival. Im joined today by two incredible authors who are going to help us unpack American Health care. Katherine eban, who whens an investigative journalist, a Fortune Magazine contributor and an Andrew Carnegie fellow. Her articles on pharmaceutical counterfeiting, gun trafficking and coercive interrogations by the cia have Won International attention and numerous awards. She lectures frequently on the topic of pharmaceutical integrity, bottle of lies the inside story of the generic drug boom, her second book, was published bihar per collins in by harpercollins in may. Based on a decade of reporting, the book takes readers into manufacturing plants where the majority of our low cost generic medicine is made. Educated at Brown University and oxford where she was a rhodes scholar, eban lives in brooklyn with her husband, two daughters and newfoundland dog romeo. Dr. Marty makary works at Johns Hopkins university and author of the New York Times bestseller un
Information that is on procedural changes training, general information, and messages from the chief of police. Will submit the d. G. O. Change form that will lay out the actual changes to the d. G. O. Specifically. And then that bulletin is valid for two years, and then the d. G. O. Has to be reopened i imagine the commission would want to adjust at that time. Otherwise, just a reminder this is the document in front of you. It first came to the commission january 2018, approved in february of 2018 and then we revisited it in january 2019. Talking about adding m. O. U. s to the scope, we made a small additional change related to this matrix and the written directors annual work plan. Written directors will develop an annual plan. We have this fiveyear plan, as you see it tonight. The annual plan will solidify each year, which d. G. O. Needs to come up we have to adjust the fiveyear plan according to d. G. O. s, or bulletins that are about to expire. Such that we have to change a d. G.
Actual changes to the d. G. O. Specifically. And then that bulletin is valid for two years, and then the d. G. O. Has to be reopened i imagine the commission would want to adjust at that time. Otherwise, just a reminder this is the document in front of you. It first came to the commission january 2018, approved in february of 2018 and then we revisited it in january 2019. Talking about adding m. O. U. s to the scope, we made a small additional change related to this matrix and the written directors annual work plan. Written directors will develop an annual plan. We have this fiveyear plan, as you see it tonight. The annual plan will solidify each year, which d. G. O. Needs to come up we have to adjust the fiveyear plan according to d. G. O. s, or bulletins that are about to expire. Such that we have to change a d. G. O. So we will have to address that in the annual work plan as well. The idea being the Commission President would approve that plan, and then we will make the current five