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Health Reform Implementation at CHPRE

CHPRE Staff — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:06:06 +0000

Health Reform Implementation at CHPRE

We have 2 active health reform implementation projects:

Technical Assistance to Fairfax County ,

Technical Assistance to the Virginia Health Reform Initiative.

They are briefly described with appropriate links. Please contact us to learn more about any or all of them.

Technical Assistance to the Fairfax County Health Reform Task Force

CHPRE Staff — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:39:22 +0000

Implementation of health reform has important national, state, and local dimensions. Fairfax County, large, diverse county and key provider and funder of the health care safety net, will be impacted in profound ways that will force major policy and priority changes at the county level. Len Nichols is leading a team which includes Dr. PJ Maddox, Beth Isaacs, and Che Ngufor a PhD student in Computational Sciences and Informatics, that is developing a set of recommendations or options for the county based on a detailed quantitative analysis of the country’s uninsured today and post-reform, and on a qualitative analysis of peer county programs and responses to reform around the country.

Click here to view the Fairfax Health Department website.

Virginia Health Reform Initiative

CHPRE Staff — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:37:26 +0000

Over the last 17 months, Len Nichols has led a team in support of the Commonwealth’s various health reform planning and implementation activities. At various times that has included Dr. PJ Maddox, Chair of the Department of Health Administration and Policy, as well as CHPRE staff including Health Policy Fellow Beth Isaacs and former graduate research assistants Suchita Madan (‘11) and Ekom Etuk (’11). The activities and products of the Advisory Council, task forces, and technical support team can be found at the following link. Even though GMU’s formal technical assistance contracts with the Commonwealth ended October 1, 2011, because reform discussions in Richmond are ongoing we expect to play other health policy research roles throughout 2012 as well.