Diabetes, that hypertension, episodes of newborns and deliveries to those things kinds of differences hold up when you look at sub groups of the bread and butter . The other part of the question, whatever those differences are, what are some of the unique things were what i might be distinguishing that they do versus all of the other providers in the system that they might be able to say, hey, we here to take down the toughest cases in the biggest challengers. Sure. Your mentioning we did a study that compares users and nonusers. That has to control for a wide yes, we understand some of his diabetic or someone who has Heart Disease i be more expensive than someone who is in good health. We try to control that. Even after average adjusting for insurance status. To the extent possible, we try to make it very simple. Heres the overall average impact. I cant say that we did on a disease basis. Nonetheless, were trying to control to the extent we could. Why they do this, they do not necessa
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That is the committee, fiveplus three equals eight. And you have to have half of eight people is four plus one. And that is your quorum and makes five and we had five people and we had three legislative people and two from the advisory board. And that is five people, that makes up the committee. And that is the quorum. Okay . I ruling on that today, that was a quorum. Do you understand that . I will go over it again. We have the committee consists of 8 people. Five from the advisory board, and three from the commission. Five plus three is eight. Eight people makeup a committee. And you need 4 plus one for a quorum, which is five. We had five people there. And that is the quorum. Okay . That is. There was a quorum. The Long Term Care council committing, any other questions . Good morning. And if it is. That is. , and now that i cant see you 5u8, this is Jessica Lehman and we are going to have a different member of the Long Term Care council giving the report, this month we get me and so
And so the council met on thursday september 11th and there were three major items on the agenda, and the first was the care task force, and which is about looking at the needs in the community and identifying resources and needs. And the council heard the recommendations from the four work groups. And over all, recommendation is to have a care advisory board, and that would operate under the long term coordinating council and one of the cochairs of the task force is our very own anne hinton and if you have questions i am sure that she can help with that. Another issue that came up on the council that actually has been coming up in the community quite a bit is, looking at the group of people who are long term survivors of hiv and aids. And there is a great tag line about envisioning our future we never dreamed of. And so it is for the group of people who are dealing with the issues that people had not planned for and so there a project called community connect, which may be similar to