Dear Colleagues
The following seminar here at the LSE next week may be of interest to some list members.
More info from Kate Henderson at [log in to unmask]
David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care
Developments in long-term care services in the USA
Speaker: Carol Raphael, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Visiting Nurse Service (VNS) of New York
Date: 30 July 2003
Time: 11:00am - 12:15 pm, light lunch to follow
Venue: London School of Economics, J116, Cowdray House, Portugal St, WC2
Carol Raphael is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Visiting Nurse Service (VNS) of New York, the largest nonprofit home health care organization in the United States. Her responsibilities include managing its post-acute, long-term care, maternal and child health, rehabilitation, hospice, mental health and public health programs, which provide care to 24,000 patients daily. Under Ms. Raphael's leadership, VNS has created VNS Choice, a Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care Health Plan, the Medicare Community Nursing Organization, a community-based health care program for Medicare beneficiaries and Centers of Excellence specializing in cardiopulmonary, diabetes, asthma and cancer care. She established the Center for Home and Policy and Research, a research center to advance knowledge about the costs and outcomes of home and community-based care and multicultural programs to ensure access for the Hispanic and Asian populations.
Prior to joining the Visiting Nurse Service, Ms. Raphael was Director of Operations Management at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Before that, she worked at the New York City Human Resources Administration for 10 years, ending in the position of Executive Deputy Commissioner of the Income and Medical Assistance Administration. In this capacity, she was responsible for managing the Medicaid, Income Maintenance, Food Stamps, HIV services and home health care programs.
Ms. Raphael is a member of MedPAC, the commission that advises Congress on Medicare payments and policies, the New York State Hospital Review and Planning Council and chairs its Fiscal Policy Committee and its Work Group on Subacute Care. She is on the Boards of Lifetime Healthcare Companies, the American Foundation for the Blind, Pace University and the Staten Island University Health System. She chaired the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation's National Advisory Committees on Building Health Systems for People with Chronic Illnesses, and The Better Jobs/Better Care Demonstration Program. She is a member of RWJ's National Advisory Committees for Improving Care at the End of Life, HMO Workgroup and Home Care Research Initiative. She was an Issues Expert at the White House Conference on Aging, is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and a recipient of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Alumni of the Year and the YWCA's Academy of Women Achievers awards. She has authored papers and presentations on post-acute, long-term care and end of life care, and co-edited the book "Home Based Care for A New Century."
Ms. Raphael holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and completed its Senior Executive Program.
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