LAKE PLACID — More than 200 health care professionals and other stakeholders from nine North Country counties and beyond explored regional health issues at Adirondack Health Institute’s 11th annual Leadership Summit on Thursday at the Lake Placid Conference Center.

Among those who participated and presented at the event was Dr. Eugene Heslin, first deputy commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, who gave the keynote address. A group of regional leaders broached the topic of advancing whole-person care in our rural region during a panel discussion titled “Collaborative System of Health.”

AHI is an independent nonprofit organization licensed under New York State Public Health Law as an Article 28 Central Services Facility. Since 1987, it has supported hospitals, physician practices, behavioral health providers, community-based organizations and others in the region in sharing a mission of transforming health care and improving population health. AHI is a joint venture of Adirondack Health, Glens Falls Hospital, Hudson Headwaters Health Network, St. Lawrence Health System and the University of Vermont Health Network-Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital.