Welcome . . .
           from Great Basin Primary Care Association

As we planned our fifth biennial Symposium, we realized that 2008 is not the first time Nevada has faced the enormous financial challenges related to health care.  What lessons can be learned from our past in which Nevadans addressed the challenges of difficult times and still were able to make progress?  Can we strategically do it in such a way that we do not destroy our capacity to preserve and to rebuild?  

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A wise old farmer once said:
 “Don’t eat the seeds no matter how hungry you get because you are going to need them when the rains come again.”   

 

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A Walk to Remember . . .
                               why take the walk?

Wisdom from the past can inform the present and the future.  Why take the walk?  Because the timeline is a pathway through our history - a history of challenge and overcoming challenge  - of barriers and navigating barriers – of successes and celebrations.  This can be an opportunity to remind ourselves this is just a drought in the history of droughts.   

We invite and honor key leaders in our State's past, our "healthcare pioneers" to come share with us their experience in walking through our previous droughts in access to healthcare.  We will all explore together ~

• What have we done in the past?

• How did we survive the droughts?

• What has been the cost when the seeds were eaten?

• How did we prosper when we preserved them?

• How did we recognize the seeds?

• What is the seed and what is the chaff?

Answers to these and other questions will be recorded, analyzed and published as a reference tool for us all as we discover how lessons from previous droughts might teach us how to preserve the seeds for the time the rain comes back - and the first - is to know it will come back.

 

Uniquely peaceful and refreshing setting:

We will be meeting at the Zephyr Point  Conference Center at beautiful Lake Tahoe.  Lodging & food is included!