WELCOME NEW MEMBER!

Susan Armiger is President and CEO of Catalight Care Services, one of the largest behavioral health networks in the nation with 8,000+ practitioners serving 12,000 clients and families every day. Backed by more than a decade of experience and a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, Catalight’s goal is ensuring that clients with developmental disabilities receive timely access to evidence-based treatment, including naturalistic developmental and language-based services, applied behavior analysis, occupational and speech therapy. Through the work of affiliate partners, Easterseals Hawaii and Easterseals Northern California, Catalight and its family of companies support their clients and their families across their care journey. At Catalight, Susan’s primary focus is overseeing the continued growth of the organization’s existing scope of services. She also serves as CEO of Xolv Technology Solutions, which provides Catalight with a fully-integrated suite of solutions. Prior to joining Catalight in 2019, Susan was CEO of Easterseals Bay Area, where she led the organization’s growth from a small non-profit to a thriving $300M healthcare company delivering more than one million hours of service each year. Susan has joined the Bay Area Round Table.

UPCOMING ABL HEALTHCARE ROUND TABLES

• 9/06 – Orange County ZOOM Table – “How Do You Prepare for the Unexpected?” – Featuring Larry Blocher, MD, CEO of Bio-Options

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• 9/15 – Los Angeles ZOOM Table – “Against All Odds: How to Fan the Flame of Innovation” – Featuring Naresh Menon, CEO of ChromoLogic LLC

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• 9/21 – Bay Area ZOOM Table – “Top Trends and Changing Players in Your Healthcare Field” – Featuring Kaiser Permanente Health Plan’s Marcos Vasconcelos, Executive Director, Strategic Market Planning and Analytics, and Adam Gall, Director, Strategic Market Planning and Analytics

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BLOG by Mimi Grant, President of ABL Organization

IT’S BACK TO THE FUTURES OF HEALTHCARE

Mimi recently participated in the “Living Longer Festival: Health + Wellness 2050,” held at the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building on the National Mall. Here, Mimi shares a brief photo journal, with captions, of her incredible experience.

In 1879, the “National Museum” – the nation’s first, was “crowned” on the Washington Mall. Last November, after being closed for the past 20 years, the renamed Smithsonian “Arts + Industries Building” (AIB) reopened its doors to host the “FUTURES” exhibit. Over the eight months of the exhibit, FUTURES looked at a number of themes, including the future of AI, Generative Design, Conservation, Energy, Transportation, Work, Fashion, Gaming, and “Healthcare – in 2050.”

On June 25th, the “Living Longer Festival: Health + Wellness 2050,” highlighted a special demonstration entitled, “The Doctor Is In (SPACE),” “demonstrating” how an astronaut using a MedWand on a patient in space could conceivably link with a terrestrial doctor for an exam. MedWand’s Co-Founders, Bob Rose, CEO, and Samir Qamar, MD, CMO, were frequently seen on-hand answering questions from the 12,000 visitors who toured the Exhibit on “Solstice Saturday,” when several of the Smithsonian museums, including AIB, stayed open late – some till midnight.

Later, I had the honor of moderating an outstanding panel of experts, supplemented with questions from the audience who “Interrupted Your Regularly Scheduled Panel” throughout “WIYRSP: Living Longer in the Future.” To kick it off we introduced “Elizabeth,” a great grandmother, who was captured on her grandson’s iPhone for the masses when she demonstrated her impressive moves as she got down to Bruno Mars at her 100th birthday party surrounded by friends and family…

CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF MIMI’S BLOG WITH MORE, LARGER PHOTOS

Mimi Grant’s Vlog:

To Boost or Not to Boost: That Is THE Question

In response to several ABL Tech Members’ musings about whether or not they should get a second COVID booster, Mimi dived into the research. In this video, she reveals the FAQs – and answers – she came up with.

CLICK HERE to watch Mimi’s 4:32-minute vlog.