Joint Hearing of Senate
Aging and Youth
Appropriations
Health and Human Services
and
Intergovernmental Operations Committees
Examining the Proposed Consolidation of the Departments of Aging, Drug and Alcohol Programs, Health, and Human Services
April 13, 2017, 11 am to 3 pm
Reading Hospital Conference Center
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Committee Chairs
11:15 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.
Panel I
Mary Kay Bernosky, CEO
Safe Berks
Constance Morrison, President and CEO
Berks Visiting Nurses
11:35 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Panel II
Edward B. Michalik, Executive Director
Berks County Area Agency on Aging
John R. Morahan, President and CEO
Penn State Health St. Joseph
12:05 p.m. – 12:25 p.m.
Panel III
Richard Edley, President and CEO
Rehabilitation and Community Providers Association
Jim Bobeck, President and CEO
Step by Step, Inc.
12:25 p.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Panel IV
Senator Gene Yaw
23rd Senatorial District
12:40 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Panel V
Richard Conaboy, CEO
Clearbrook Treatment Centers
Michael Donahue, Executive Director
Wyoming County Human Services
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Panel VI
George J. Vogel, Jr., Executive Director
Council on Chemical Abuse
Brett Lechleitner, President
PA Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence
Regional Director, Acadia Healthcare
BK McDonough, Government Affairs Specialist
Caron Treatment Centers
1:30 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.
Panel VII
Brinda Penyak, Deputy Director
County Commissioners Association of PA
Cheri Rinehart, CEO
PA Association of Community Health Centers
Bridgette McGivern, CEO
Community Health and Dental Care
Christian Leinbach, Chair
Berks County Board of Commissioners
2:10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Panel VIII
Rick Seipp, President
PA Association of Chain Drug Stores
Vice President of Pharmacy, Weis Markets
Eric Esterbrook, Past President
PA Pharmacists Association
Owner, Esterbrook Pharmacy