SAN FRANCISCO - The CHP is pleased to announce that its Senior Fellow, Jennie Chin Hansen, RN, MSN, has been appointed to serve on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). MedPAC is an independent federal body mandated to analyze access to care, quality of care and other issues affecting Medicare. In addition, it advises Congress on payments to health plans that participate in the Medicare Advantage program and providers in Medicare's traditional fee-for-service program.

Ms. Hansen's appointment recognizes her extensive expertise and leadership in long-term, community-based services for older adults. Until 2005, she served as the executive director of On Lok, Inc., a non-profit family of organizations providing comprehensive primary, acute and long-term, community-based services to well and frail older adults throughout San Francisco. On Lok is the prototype for the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) which was signed into legislation in 1997 making this Medicare/Medicaid program available to all 50 states.

Ms. Hansen joined the Center as a Senior Fellow and is chairing the advisory committee for the Integrated Nurse Leadership Project, a three-year program funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. She also serves on two other CHP advisory groups, the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program and the California HealthCare Foundation Health Care Leadership Program.

In addition to her work with CHP, Ms. Hansen currently serves on the Board of Directors of AARP, chairs the AARP Foundation, is a part-time nursing faculty member at San Francisco State University and participates on the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Future of Aging Services. She was a founding board member of the National PACE Association and a former board president of the American Society on Aging.

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