Sponsorship Opportunities

2009 CHA Annual Meeting

Tuesday, June 23, 2009The Aqua Turf Club, Southington, CT

Uncertain Times—Unwavering Commitment

The Premier Annual Gathering of Connecticut’s Healthcare Leaders

Scenes from the 2008 CHA

Annual Meeting

CHA Annual Meeting

The Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) has represented hospitals and health-related member organizations for more than 90 years. From its Wallingford, Connecticut headquarters, CHA strives to advance the health of the citizens of Connecticut by representing and serving hospitals and their related healthcare organizations.

The CHA Annual Meeting, held in June, is the premier annual healthcare gathering in Connecticut, with hospital CEOs, physicians, and other key hospital and healthcare decision-makers in attendance. Each year, nearly 600 of the state’s most influential healthcare leaders gather at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington, Connecticut to celebrate Connecticut hospitals’ accomplishments, discuss the challenges of the future, enjoy first-rate entertainment, and network with one another.

The 91st CHA Annual Meeting will feature the Association’s annual awards, including the Healthcare Heroes Awards, the Community Service Award, the John D. Thompson Award, and the prestigious T. Stewart Hamilton Award, which recognizes an individual for contributions to Connecticut healthcare and service to CHA. The meeting also features entertainment, which this year will be a keynote address by Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist (see below).

Keynote Speaker, Carl BernsteinFew journalists in America’s history have had the impact on their era and their craft as Carl Bernstein. Mr. Bernstein has written—among other works—the definitive accounts of three of the most remarkable figures of the past half-century: Richard Nixon, Pope John Paul II, and Hillary Clinton. In the early 1970s, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke the Watergate story for The Washington Post and set the standard for modern investigative reporting, for which they and The Post were awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Mr. Bernstein’s most recent book is the national bestseller A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham, acclaimed as “a model of political biography” by the Los Angeles Times, “balanced and convincing” by the New York Times, and chosen by Amazon.com readers as one of the 10 best books of 2007.

Since Watergate, in books, magazine articles, commentary, television reporting, and as editor of an award-winning website, Mr. Bernstein has continued to build on the theme he and Woodward first explored in the Nixon years—the use and abuse of power: political power, media power, financial power, and spiritual power. Together, they wrote two classic bestsellers: All the President’s Men (also a movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman), about their coverage of the Watergate story; and The Final Days, about the denouement of the Nixon presidency.

Mr. Bernstein is a political analyst for CNN, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair Magazine, and a former Washington Bureau Chief and correspondent for ABC News.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Platinum Sponsor - $15,000Recognition on Program Agenda• Promotion in CHA weekly • Update newsletter (circulation 2,600) prior to the meetingComplimentary table (10 tickets) with premium location• Table tent cards on all tables• Logo printed chocolate favor on tables for all attendees• Full-page advertisement in program materials• Logo on floor-to-ceiling screen prior to meeting• Sponsor name badge• Display table at entrance during the meeting• Poster in lobby during the meeting• Recognition on CHA website after the meeting• Recognition poster in CHA lobby• Sponsorship recognition in CHA’s pre- and post-event • press releasesSponsorship of two CHA major education forums or • summits scheduled in the September 2009 - April 2010 timeframe

Silver Sponsor - $3,750Five complimentary tickets• Half-page advertisement in program book• Sponsor name badge• Shared poster in lobby during the meeting•

Gold Sponsor - $7,500Complimentary table (10 tickets) with premium location• Full-page advertisement in program materials• Sponsor name badge• Display table during the meeting• Shared poster in lobby during the meeting• Recognition poster in CHA lobby• Sponsorship of a CHA major education forum or summit • scheduled in the September 2009 - April 2010 timeframe

Contributing Program Sponsor - $1,200 (half-page ad); $800 (quarter-page ad)Advertisement in Annual Meeting program materials• One complimentary ticket to Annual Meeting•

To reserve your sponsorship level, complete the enclosed form and return it by fax to (203) 284-9318 or by mail to CHA, 110 Barnes Road, Wallingford, CT 06492

For more information on sponsorship opportunities for the CHA Annual Meeting, please contact Christine Froias, Coordinator, Education and Sponsorship Services, at (203) 294-7257 or froias@chime.org.

The premier annual gathering

of Connecticut healthcare leaders

110 Barnes Road, P.O. Box 90Wallingford, CT 06492-0090

www.cthosp.org203-265-7611

CHA’s Past Annual Meetings