AGENDA

VOR Annual Membership Meeting

Saturday, June 11, 2005

Holiday Inn on the Hill

415 New Jersey Ave., N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20001

202-638-1616

Note: For Mary Jean Duckett and the afternoon panel discussion, there will be about

45 minutes reserved for questions from the audience.

8:00 am                       Registration

                                                **Register and pick up your name badge

                                                **Enjoy a continental breakfast

                                                **Participate in the VOR Annual Raffle

                                                **Network with families from across the country

9:00 – 9:15 am            Welcome address

9:15 – 9:45 am            Mary McTernan, Ph.D.

                                    President Message: Update on VOR’s 2004-2005 Initiatives

10:00 - 11:45 am     Mary Jean Duckett, Deputy Director of the Disabled and Elderly Health Programs Group, Center for Medicaid and State Operations/Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 

12:00 - 1:00 pm           Catered lunch for all participants

1:15 - 2:45 pm             “Achieving Quality in the Community: Promise and Problems”

                                    Sybil Finken, VOR Board Member, Moderator

                                    Panelists:      

                                    Kevin Walsh, Ph.D., Dir. of Quality Mgt., DD Health Alliance

                                    Janice Zalen, Dir. of Special Programs, American Health Care Assoc.

                                    Michael Strouse, Ph.D., Executive Director, Comm. Living Opportunities

2:45 - 3:00 pm       Break

3:15 - 4:30 pm             State Reports/Open Discussion

6:30 pm                       Evening Networking Dinner -- Optional

                                    An informal buffet has been arranged for all interested VOR meeting participants. The buffet will be available at the Hyatt Regency (Park Promenade Restaurant) directly across the street from the Holiday Inn. Cost is $25 per person (this total includes tax, tip, full buffet and one non-alcoholic beverage). The Hyatt wait staff will collect payment. See enclosed flyer for more details.

VOR * 836 S. Arlington Heights Rd., #351 * Elk Grove Village, Illinois * 60007

877-399-4VOR ph. * 847-258-5273 fax * tamie327@hotmail.com