Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care (2001)
Chapter: Appendix A: Committee Meetings and Presenters of Testimony
APPENDIX A
Committee Meetings and Presenters of Testimony
The Committee on Improving Long-Term Care held a total of eight meetings starting in 1997. These meetings involved segments open to the public, as well as closed sessions for committee deliberation. The dates of these eight meetings are listed below:
November 13–15, 1997, Washington, D.C.
March 12–14, 1998, Washington D.C.
June 11–12, 1998, Washington, D.C.
August 27–28, 1998, Woods Hole, MA
October 1, 1998, Irvine, CA
January 14–17, 1999, Washington, D.C.
April 9–10, 1999, Washington, D.C.
April 27–28, 2000, Washington, D.C.
The second meeting of the Committee, in March 1998, also comprised a public hearing. The committee heard testimony from various constituencies and interested parties at this hearing. The following people testified during this meeting:
Sally White and Sue Whitman, IONA Senior Services
Marsha Greenfield, Consumers United for Assisted Living (CUAL)
Elma Holder, National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform
William Lasky, Assisted Living Federation of America
Cynthia Dunn, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
Reverend Monsignor Charles Fahey, National Center for Assisted Living
Joanne Schwartzberg, M.D., American Medical Association
Larry Lawhorne, M.D., American Medical Directors Association
Laurie Kennedy-Malone, Ph.D., R.N., National Conference of Geriatric Nurse Practitioners
Peter Rabins, M.D., American Psychiatric Association and the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
Linda Mondoux, M.S., R.N., C.S., American Nurses Association
Mary Ann Wilner, Paraprofessional Health Care Institute
Ingrid McDonald, Service Employees International Union
Toby Edelman, National Senior Citizens' Law Center
Nancy Coleman, J.D., American Bar Association
Faith Mullen, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
Pamela Nadash, National Council on Aging
Marianna Grachek, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
William Keane, Alzheimer's Association
Karen Pace, National Association for Home Care
Paul Willging, American Health Care Association
Karen Tucker, American College of Health Care Administrators
Douglas Andrews, National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators
Bob Kafka, American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT)
Richard Bringewatt, National Chronic Care Consortium
Heather Bennet McCabe, Family Voices
The Committee also heard from numerous experts at two workshops. Presenters including the following:
Ruth Stein, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Joshua Wiener, Ph.D., Urban Institute
David Stevenson, M.S., Urban Institute
Penny Feldman, Ph.D., Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Jeanette Price, Solomon Smith Barney
Jack Payne, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Gordon Beckwith, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Rosalie Kane, D.S.W., University of Minnesota Long-Term Care Resource Center
John Durso, J.D., Katten, Muchin, and Zavis
Andrew Kramer, M.D., University of Colorado Center on Aging
Marvin Feuerberg, Ph.D., Health Care Financing Administration
Robert Kane, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Catherine Hawes, Ph.D., Myers Research Institute
Ted Benjamin, Ph.D., University of California in Los Angeles
Brenda Klutz, Deputy Director, California Department of Health Licensing and Certification
Patricia McGinnis, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
Melvin Matsumoto, Administrator, The Redwoods
Sara Sinclair, CEO, Sunshine Terrace Foundation
David Banks, CEO, Beverly Enterprises
