I recently had a somewhat frightening experience that required support and care from our health care system.

I’ve always been a numbers person. Dyslexia, which I was diagnosed with at age six, made reading and writing challenging. Math came naturally to me — I was drawn to its clear-cut rules and logic.

I wanted to study math at a higher level, but I wasn’t quite sure where that would lead me.

Over the New Year holiday my family and I went on a road trip to southern California. We spent a day on the beach and a couple days at Disneyland.

Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending the 2019 Patient and Family Centered Care Partners Conference in Los Angeles, California with four patient advisers from our Patient and Family Advisory Council in Utah.

Since being enacted by Congress in 1965, Medicaid has become vital to our country’s health care coverage.

During the last week of January, over 3,000 people gathered in Baltimore for the 2019 CMS Quality Conference. Every year, CMS convenes its contractors and stakeholders to explore innovations in health care quality improvement and discuss new strategic directions and priorities.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports on employment and labor information in more ways than you can imagine and is a goldmine of geekdom for human resources nerds like me.

When we entered Conference Room 1 of the Federal Reserve building in Birmingham, Alabama, rows of brightly colored gift bags greeted us at our seats.