Symposium Speaker

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Terry Hill

FOUNDER, NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER; EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RURAL HEALTH INNOVATIONS

Terry Hill is the Founder, former CEO and current Senior Advisor for the National Rural Health Resource Center.  Hill is also the Executive Director of Rural Health Innovations, a small business affiliate of the Center. Hill has made more than a hundred fifty presentations at national and state conferences, written extensively for health care journals, testified at the White House and before seven Congressional committees, led nine national demonstration projects, and facilitated the development of regulations for three federal rural health payment models, including the Medicare Flex program (which created critical access hospitals (CAHs) , The Frontier Extended Stay Clinic (FESC) model, and the Community Health Integration Program (FCHIP).  Hill currently teaches leadership and strategic planning to rural health leaders at both the College of St. Scholastica and the National Rural Health Association, and has also taught at the University of Minnesota Medical and Pharmacy schools.  His lifetime achievement awards have come from the Minnesota Department of Health, the Minnesota Public Health Association, the Minnesota Rural Health Association, and the National Rural Health Association.  Hill was born and raised in Central Alaska and now lives in Northern Minnesota and Northern Arizona with his wife, a grandson, three dogs and two cats.