WEBINAR: Enhanced Opportunities for Nursing in an Evolving Health Care Arena
Enhanced Opportunities for Nursing in an Evolving Health Care Arena
Friday, May 20, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. ET
Speaker: Ellen-Marie Whelan, NP, PhD
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The Center to Champion Nursing in America featured Ellen-Marie Whelan, formerly of the Center for American Progress and now with Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, in a webinar on enhanced opportunities for nursing in an evolving health care arena. Dr. Whelan reviewed the current state of health care in the U.S. and opportunities on the horizon for nursing to help make instrumental improvements in quality and cost containment.
Questions submitted in advance of the webinar were used to guide the topic discussion.
View the webinar slide presentation here. (1) (2) (3)
Watch the webinar video.
Resource: Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
Ellen-Marie Whelan, formerly at the Center for American Progress (CAP), will soon to be with Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
Prior to joining CAP she was a health policy advisor on Capitol Hill for five years, health services researcher, and practiced as nurse practitioner for over a decade. She started an adolescent primary care clinic in a community center in West Philadelphia.
On Capitol Hill, Dr. Whelan was the staff director for the Subcommittee on Retirement and Aging to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions with Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski for four years. Dr. Whelan came to Congress as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow where she served as a legislative aide to Democratic Leader Tom Daschle.
Before coming to D.C., Dr. Whelan was an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, where she held a joint appointment with the Urban Health Institute and the School of Nursing and was on faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, where she founded a primary care teen clinic in an inner-city community center. For this effort she received the Secretary’s Award for Innovations in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, presented by former Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala and was one of the first nurse practitioners in Pennsylvania to practice independently in the State Medicaid program. Her research focused on academic–community partnerships, safety-net providers, and primary care.
Dr. Whelan holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a master’s degree and Ph.D in nursing and health policy from the University of Pennsylvania and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in primary care policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Dr. Whelan will review the current state of health care in the U.S and opportunities on the horizon for nursing to help make instrumental improvements in quality and cost containment. She will discuss nursing’s role in medical homes, Accountable Care Organizations, transition care, home visitation models and more.
Source: Center for American Progress
