West-Win is pleased to have Richard Endress as our speaker for the April 23, 2013 General Meeting. His topic will be “The Future of Healthcare in America?”
Richard Endress is President of the DuPage Health Coalition, a collaborative initiative whose mission is to build and sustain in DuPage County a Health Safety Net that manages the health of low-income populations effectively and efficiently across the entire continuum of care. One of the major programs of the DuPage Health Coalition is Access DuPage, which since 2001 has provided access to comprehensive medical services to over 48,000 low-income, uninsured residents of DuPage County. Mr. Endress was instrumental in developing both organizations.
From 1985 to 2001 Mr. Endress was a Vice President of Central DuPage Health (now the Cadence Health System), overseeing such functions as strategic planning, marketing, community outreach, medical staff relations, and a variety of operational units. Earlier in his career he was a Program Director with the American Medical Association’s Department of Practice Management, conducting hundreds of training workshops for physicians across the nation. Mr. Endress has led the development of Access DuPage-like programs in two other counties in Illinois, and the development of a number of other DuPage County coalitions including Positive Parenting DuPage, FORWARD (an anti-obesity initiative), and the DuPage Oral Health Plan. Mr. Endress has extensive teaching experience, including a position as an instructor at Northern Illinois University from 2003-2007. Mr. Endress holds a Masters Degree from Northwestern University, a Ph.D. from Purdue University, and is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow