Leadership Day on Capitol Hill 2009

Cover memo

Introductory Information

• Tentative Program Agenda
• Map of Capitol Hill

Tab 1: Leave-behinds

• ACP Fact Sheet
• Key Messages on Top Four Priority Issues
• Guarantee Access to Affordable Health Insurance Coverage
• Enhance Care Coordination through the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
• Enact Comprehensive Payment Reforms to Align Incentives with Value
• Establish a National Workforce Policy
• Reduce Medical Student Debt
• Support Comprehensive Legislation to Address Crisis in Primary Care
• Improve Funding for Primary Care Workforce and Health Care Research and Quality in FY 2010

Tab 2: Background

• Achieving Health Care Coverage for All Americans
• Enhance Care Coordination through the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
• Support Comprehensive Reform of Physician Payments
• Primary Care Workforce Crisis: The Need for Multi-Faceted Solutions
• Preserving Patient Access to Primary Care Act, H.R. 2350
• Improve Funding for Primary Care Workforce and Health Care Research and Quality in FY2010
• Internal Medicine Workforce Data

Tab 3: Advocacy

• Advocacy Information
• Tips for effective advocacy
• Checklist for delivering your message
• 111th Congress, 1st session, calendar, Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
• Thank you/follow up letter to members of Congress
• Frequently mispronounced names of members of Congress, Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
• Physicians and relatives, 111th Congress, 1st session
• Other health care professionals, 111th Congress, 1st session
• Key Contact program
• Key Contact enrollment form
• Congressional Seats in Transition, Congressional Quarterly, Inc.

Tab 4: Election Guide

• Senate
• Senators up for re-election in 2010
• 2010 Senate Race Ratings, The Cook Political Report
• House
• 2010 House Summary, The Cook Political Report
• 2010 Competitive House Race Chart, The Cook Political Report

Tab 5: Media

• The Importance of Media Relations in Advocacy
• Media Tips
• Sample Press Release
• Sample Media and Communications Placements
• "Yul D. Ejnes: We must bail out primary care, too" The Providence Journal, by Yul D. Ejnes, MD, FACP
• "A Primary Concern" Albany Times Union (NY), by Linda A. Lambert
• "Real 'change' is necessary in primary care" Providence Business News, by N.S. Damle, MD, FACP
• "Congress must act on primary care physician crisis in U.S." The Clarion-Ledger, by Samuel H. Peeples, MD, FACP
• "Millwood doctor attends gathering" The Winchester Star, with quotes from Jeffrey Harris, MD, MACP
• "What a difference 15 years makes!" entry from The ACP Advocate Blog by Bob Doherty, by Bob Doherty, Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs and Public Policy at the American College of Physicians