Excerpt from Kaiser Family Foundation:
The Kaiser Family Foundation will hold a policy briefing at 10 a.m. Monday, February 7, 2011 to examine provisions in the health reform law designed to improve long-term services and supports. The event will feature opening remarks by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, as well as a panel discussion on Medicaid’s role and Kaiser’s latest data findings regarding long-term services and supports for seniors and people with disabilities.
The briefing will include a presentation of new data and findings on home- and community-based services and Money Follows the Person transition grants by Molly O’Malley Watts, a former Senior Policy Analyst for the Foundation’s Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU). It also will include perspective from Barbara Edwards, Director, Disabled and Elderly Health Programs Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Mercedes Witowski, Associate Executive Director, Community Access Unlimited in New Jersey, as well as one other state-based expert to be announced. Diane Rowland, Executive Vice President of The Kaiser Family Foundation and Executive Director of the KCMU, will moderate.
WHAT: Briefing, “Opportunities for Long-Term Services and Supports in the Health Reform Law”
WHEN:
Monday, February 7, 2011
10 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. ET (Registration and breakfast beginning at 9:30 a.m.)
WHERE:
Barbara Jordan Conference Center (Kaiser Family Foundation Office)
1330 G Street NW, Washington, DC (one block west of Metro Center)
RSVP:
Please register online to attend this event in person.
CONTACT:
For further information, please contact Chris Lee at 202-347-5270, or Craig Palosky at (202) 347-5270.
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