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On Wednesday, February 27th
at 6:00pm, Antioch University Midwest will be hosting the first Ohio screening of
the award-winning new documentary film, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American
Healthcare, to be followed by a panel discussion featuring some of the
Miami Valley’s most important voices on healthcare.
Produced and directed by Matthew
Heineman and Oscar nominee and Emmy-winner Susan Froemke, Escape Fire is a
feature-length documentary that examines the powerful forces maintaining the healthcare
status quo, a medical industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention,
for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. After decades of
resistance, a movement is gaining ground to bring innovative high-touch,
low-cost methods of prevention and healing into our high-tech, costly system.
This film follows dramatic human stories as well as leaders fighting to
transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and
even the U.S. military. Escape Fire is about finding a way
out. It’s about saving the health of a nation.
Antioch Midwest is committed to
education and conversation about topics that deeply affect the lives of Miami
Valley residents, so to help bring the issues raised by the film closer to
home, Dr. Kent De Spain, Chair of Midwest’s Healthcare Consumer
Advocacy/Patient Navigation program, has invited Bryan Bucklew, Dr. James
Hardy, and Dr. Sharon Sherlock to join him in a panel discussion following the
film. Formerly the Vice President of Public Policy for the
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce, Bryan Bucklew is now the President and CEO of
the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association. Dr. James T. Hardy is presently
the Chief of Staff at the Dayton VA Medical Center. Dr. Sharon Sherlock is an
Assistant Professor of Community Health at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at
Wright State University and also serves as the Executive Director of Reach Out
of Montgomery County, a clinic providing access to health care services for
Dayton’s underserved/uninsured population.
The event will take
place in PNC Bank Auditorium at Antioch University Midwest in Yellow Springs.
The screening will begin at 6:00pm with the panel discussion to follow. Coffee
and tea will be available in the AUM lobby beginning at 5:30pm. The event is sponsored
by Antioch’s Healthcare consumer Advocacy/Patient Navigation program, supported by the generosity of Greene and Soin Hospitals,
and is free of charge.
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