About the Summit
Keynote SpeakerWe are pleased to announce that Mr. Richard Browdie is the keynote speaker for the 5th Annual Show Me Summit on Aging and Health.
Mr. Browdie has a 30-year history in the coordination of care through organizations that have as their mission the improvement and maintenance of the health and well being of older adults. As President/CEO of Benjamin Rose, a non-profit, non-sectarian organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for older people through community-based and residential care, research, education and advocacy, he assures the current and long-term viability of the organization in keeping with its mission.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania and his Master's in Business Administration from Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Featured Speakers
J. Bradley Jones Brad Jones has served as the NFIB/Missouri state director for the past fifteen years. Jones oversees all of the legislative, political and member activism activities of NFIB on behalf of its small business members in Missouri. NFIB Missouri presently has over 9000 members in the state.
Prior to serving as NFIB/Missouri state director, Jones worked as director of education and environmental affairs for Associated Industries of Missouri. AIM represents around 1500 manufacturers around the state. After eight years with AIM he took over as the executive director of the Missouri Mining Council.
Jones has a B. S. degree in Political Science from the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Scott Lakin Scott Lakin is President of Lakin Consulting, LLC, a consulting firm in the areas of Insurance, Government, Education and business. He also serves as a board member and President of Keystone Mutual Insurance Company, a Missouri medical liability company which he helped create.
Lakin served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. During his time as a state representative, Lakin was appointed Chairman of number of important and influential committees including the Joint Committee on Health Care Policy and Planning (1994-1997), the committee on Social Services and Corrections Appropriations (1997) and the committee on Education, Public Safety and Judiciary Appropriations (1998-2001). In addition, he served as Chairman of the Missouri Certificate of Need Committee and the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan for state employees.
Among Rep. Lakin’s many legislative accomplishments he is known as the original sponsor of Missouri’s SCHIP program known as MC+ for Kids (1998). He also was chief sponsor of a bill to improve Missouri’s immunization rates for children age 0 to 5. This bill increased the rate of properly immunized children ages 0 to5 from 51% to 90% in less than 3 years.
After an unsuccessful run for Missouri State Treasurer in 2000, Rep. Lakin was appointed in March of 2001 by Governor Bob Holden to be the states’ XX Director of the Missouri Department of Insurance. As Director, Lakin was responsible for a Department of 225 employees and a budget of $13.7 million.
During his service as Insurance Director, Lakin was known for his emphasis on consumer services, helping the state handle a St. Louis hailstorm which was the largest property and casualty loss in state history. He also dealt with multiple incidents of severe tornado destruction and the crisis in the states’ medical liability markets.
Lakin also brought improvements within the department with the development of systems that produced more efficiency in both the policy approval process and the agent licensing division and made major strides in improving consumer services. Lakin and his insurance department were also instrumental in passing legislation to require “prompt pay” to Missouri physicians and other providers by insurance companies. Lakin left the department in January of 2005 to pursue his work in consulting.
Steve Renne is vice president of FRA and Children's Health Policy with the Missouri Hospital Association.
Steve has responsibilities for monitoring all state regulations, state and federal Medicaid issues, which include the Federal Reimbursement Allowance Program, along with children’s hospitals’ state and federal issues.
Prior to joining MHA, he was interim director of the MO HealthNet Division (formerly the Division of Medical Services). Previously, he served as deputy director for the department, a position he had held since 1989. Steve has 25 years of experience in state government, including the State Auditor’s Office, Missouri House of Representatives and the Department of Social Services.
Steve is a Certified Public Accountant. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri – Columbia with a degree in Business. He also attended the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Andrea J. Routh Andrea Routh is currently serving as Executive Director of the recently established Missouri Health Advocacy Alliance, a non-profit organization providing a consumer voice for quality affordable health care choices in Missouri.
Ms. Routh is an attorney with extensive experience in health policy and senior issues. She has served in policy and research staff positions with the Missouri General Assembly, was Governor Mel Carnahan’s Director of Policy Development and served as Director of the Missouri Division of Aging from September 1997 to February, 2000.
Ms. Routh also served as a Division Director for Consumer Affairs and later as Assistant Department Director of the Missouri Department of Insurance.
Prior to joining the Missouri Health Advocacy Alliance, she operated her own business, providing consultant services to state agencies and non-profit organizations for about four years.
Keeping with her commitment to develop high-powered leaders in the world, Ms. Routh spends much of her free time training leaders for Landmark Education, a global cutting- edge training and development company.
Honored Guests
Ms. Senior MO -- Christine LeBlaine DeHart Christine lives in Ballwin and is married to husband Glen. They have four children ranging in age from 40 to 19 years of age. They have been blessed with five grandchildren. Christine helps with fundraising programs for "Whole Kid Outreach." She created the Women's Celebration Weekend in Ellington, Missouri for "Whole Kid Outreach." She also hosts and helps with year-round parties, auctions, and walks that provide baby items for the rural poor. Her passion in life is dance. She owned her own dance studio in Wisconsin for 15 years and was also part-owner of a theatre production there. For the last 12 years she has taught women's classes at a local dance studio, and in September 2007 she started an adults only dance studio, "Dancing Thru Life." She is the manager, choreographer, and teacher for more than 80 adults who love to dance. She also spends time each week with her children and grandchildren. She enjoys traveling, interior decorating, beading, and reading.
MHCA Ms. Nursing Home Queen Lucyle Benne, Tiffany Heights Lucyle Benne was born on March 26, 1918 in Jefferson County, Nebraska. Her father was a farmer and her mother a housewife. By the time she was two her family had moved to Florida. Things were great until the Stock Market crashed in 1929. As the years of the Depression began they returned to the farm and started over. Lucyle, being a tomboy, helped with the outdoor chores and field work. She says she was lucky and graduated high school and was able to attend a two year teachers college. During her first year of teaching she attended a teachers institute and that is where she met Max, her future husband. In 1941 they were engaged. In 1942 after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, Max enlisted in the Navy and was sent to San Diego. After three tries to get a marriage license they succeeded and were married in July 1942. Max was sent to the West Pacific and Lucyle came back to Kansas to teach. Eventually Max would receive a Law Degree and he and Lucyle would relocate to Missouri to be near her sister. They have since moved to Mound City and have made it their home for the past 51 years. Max and Lucyle have been married for 65 + years, she says Max is her LIFE! Lucyle was chosen as Grand Marshall for the home town 4th of July Parade & she and Max were selected as the 4th of July, Senior King and Queen.
History
In 2004 the Missouri Alliance of Area Agencies on Aging (MA4) held its first Missouri Show Me Summit on Aging and Health.
With what was formerly the Governor’s Conference on Aging and Health, MA4, a not-for-profit organization, in collaboration with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, re-organized and renamed the conference.
Currently, the Show Me Summit on Aging and Health meets the need for seniors, senior care providers and senior specialists to network, receive continuing education, and distribute new information and technology to Missouri residents.
The conference is not supported by Missouri tax dollars. Instead, it depends solely on donations and registration fees to fund the educational opportunities awarded to its participants.
- Pre-Conference Brochure (Complete Conference Details!)
- 2008 Save the Date Postcard
- 2007 Conference Slide Show
