Conference Call to Discuss Women’s Access to Needed Care and Services

Jul 21, 2011

 Affordable Care Act Improves Women’s Access to Needed Care, Services

Please join Tina Tchen, Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls and Mayra Alvarez, Director of Public Health Policy in the Office of Health Reform at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on a conference call to discuss the impact of the recently released Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report on Women’s Preventive Services on women’s access to preventive services. 

WHO:                    Tina Tchen, White House

                                  Mayra Alvarez, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

WHEN:                 Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. PT

DIAL-IN:               800-369-2141

PASSCODE:         IOM

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