The Department of Social Work presents : “Resilience and Advocacy: Applications to Social Work Policy and Practice” A Panel Discussion to Celebrate Social Work Month

Date: Wednesday March 27, 2013

Time: 1:30pm to 3:30pm

Location: Mason Hall Room D23 Edwin Meese III Conference Room, Fairfax Campus

Panelists: Nannette Bowler,- Fairfax County DFS, Hanna Kane — Employment Justice Center, Vicki Kirsch – George Mason University, James Thur – Virginia Wounded Warrior Program

This event is free and open to the public, please RSVP to vkhov@gmu.edu (703.993.2030)

.2 CEUs available for a fee of $20 payable during online registration or by check on the day of the event.

The School of Nursing Doctoral Student Organization Presents – The Interprofessional Health Science Forum – The Movement Towards Interprofessional Research by Patricia A. Grady, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director, National Insitute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health.

Date: April 29, 2013

Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm

Location: Mason Hall Meese Conference Room

Light Refreshments will be served RSVP to cspinel2@gmu.edu

Aging and Long-Term Care Policy

Mark R. Meiners, Ph.D., is a Professor of Health Administration and Policy in the College of Health and Human Services at George Mason University. Dr. Meiners specializes in the areas of aging and health with emphasis on financing and reimbursement issues. He is nationally recognized as one of the leading experts on financing and program development in long-term care. His most recent work focuses on improving community care coordination between medical and social service providers. He is also working to replicate Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership programs in states across the country.
Among his noteworthy accomplishments is his leadership of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Medicare/Medicaid Integration Program, an initiative designed to help states develop new systems of care that better coordinate acute and long-term care. In addition he has led the RWJF Partnership for Long-Term Care, an innovative state-based long-term care insurance program, since its beginning in 1987. His path-breaking research on long-term care insurance has been a major catalyst to the current interest in this topic and his work on Medicare/Medicaid integration has helped advance chronic care improvement strategies for all aged and disabled populations.

Dr. Meiners presentation will focus on the economics of aging and long-term care as it relates to health reform and highlight new opportunities for multi-disciplinary research. The emergence of chronic illness as a key driver in health care costs has prompted new interest in lessons learned from research on long-term care financing and delivery system reform strategies.  Accountable Care Organizations and Medical Homes are just two examples of strategies supported by  the Accountable Care Act that draw on insights gained over many years of research on Medicare and Medicaid and their uneasy relationship with long-term care. The integration of acute and long-term care, cash and counseling payment strategies, long-term care insurance, and informal support strategies are examples of research and program development threads that are being woven together to improve care for seniors and people with disabilities supported by Medicare and Medicaid.

Click here to view the event flyer: HAP CHPRE Seminar December 3rd.

“Who Really Pays for Employment-Based Health Insurance and Why Does It Matter for Healthcare Reform?”

Do workers bear the cost of health insurance premiums in the form of lower wages?  Brad Herring will present work in which he and his colleagues conduct an empirical test of this question by examining how changes in premiums over time affect changes in wages for a sample of wage‐earners from the four‐year 2004 panel of the SIPP linked to data on average employer contributions to premiums from the MEPS-IC.  Dr. Herring will then highlight the policy significance of this wage/benefit tradeoff by discussing the implications of two particular provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act – the 2014 “play or pay” mandate on employers to offer health benefits and the 2018 “Cadillac Tax” on high-cost plans.

Bradley Herring, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Health Economics and Policy.  Dr. Herring’s research focuses on a number of economic and public policy issues related to private and public health insurance coverage.  He has published articles in the Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, and New England Journal of Medicine, and is co-author of the book Pooling Health Insurance Risks.  His research has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, U.S. Health and Human Services ASPE, and AHRQ.  Dr. Herring earned his Ph.D. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, received a two-year RWJF Scholars in Health Policy fellowship at Yale University, and served for a year with the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers.

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Saturday, October 6, 2012 5:00 – 7:00pm

Meese Conference Room, Mason Hall, Fairfax Campus – George Mason University

$25 Alumni, Faculty and Guests, $15 Students.

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Promising Practices 2012

Date: May 11, 2012
Location: Marriott Fair Oaks, Fairfax, VA
More Information: Download the Event Flyer (includes invited speakers)

More than one in four U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have suffered a service-related head injury and two-thirds reported depression. The great concern is that all the problems we’re seeing with head injury, PTSD, and depression could be the tip of the iceberg. There is an urgent need for services that can promote healing, strengthen relationships, and reintegrate our warriors with their families, communities, schools, and employers.

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Seth Noar, Associate Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Student Union II Meeting Room 1 & 2

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Quality Improvement Awards

The College of Health and Human Services at George Mason University established the Quality Improvement of the Year Award in 2004. The award recognizes quality improvement teams in hospitals or health care systems for their successful improvement efforts and ensures that the hard work of quality improvement teams is appreciated and acknowledged. In doing so, the award brings together quality improvement specialists from different, and often competing, organizations for collaboration.

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Click this link to see recent CHHS faculty research.

The conference looked at the problems associated with childhood obesity and heard information about the problems associated with obesity from various points of view including the schools, business community, faith community and the political community. The task force hopes to have the attendance of 150 – 200 people representing communities throughout the Northern Virginia region.

The 19th Washington Health Policy Institute was a success!  Now it is time to plan for the 20th Washington Health Policy Institute

For 20 years, the Institute has been committed to informing students and interested attendees about Health Policy in America.

Visit this link for information about the upcoming 20th WHPI on June 4th through 8th, 2012

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