September 23, 2021

Arrowwood Resort & Conference Center

1500 Shoreline Drive

Oacoma , SD 57365

10am--4pm

Objectives for this event include:

1. Creating additional awareness while identifying Rural Health Inequities affecting the entire state of SD
2. Cultivating meaningful discussion about rural healthcare delivery
3. Discovering how current health inequities are impacting the health of rural residents
4. Producing a road map of interventions/policy changes to address the rural healthcare inequity identified as most affecting the state

Agenda Items

9:30am—10:00am Registration

10:00am—11:00am Keynote: Dean Ridgway, USD Sanford School of Medicine

11:00am—11:30am DOL H-1B Grant Award: Dr. Matt Owens and Stephanie Mayfield

11:30am—12:00pm EMS Pathways for HS Students: Brock Rops and Travis Spier

12:00pm—12:30pm EMS Research Presentation: USD Med Students Riley Schaap

and Carl Lang

12:30pm—1:00pm Lunch Provided

1:00pm—2:00pm Rural Healthcare Q&A Panel:

2:00pm—3:00pm Table Topics—brainstorm rural health challenges in SD

3:00pm—4:00pm Each table shares and large group identifies priorities for 2022