The Health Workforce Dream Team: Who Will Provide the Care?

Many providers and policymakers envision team-based care as an important way to improve quality and maximize resources. The “dream team” includes nurses and many other non-physician providers. But how will we ensure enough health care workers for a growing, aging population with ever-increasing chronic care needs? This December 2 briefing, sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, explored the question, focusing on a new report from the Institute of Medicine on the Affordable Care Act.

For more information, please visit Alliance’s event page.

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Speakers for this session:

The panel is co-moderated by Ed Howard of the Alliance for Health Reform and Sue Hassmiller of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

  • Linda Burnes Bolton, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • Joel Teitelbaum, George Washington University
  • Bob Konrad, Cecil G. Sheps Center
  • Catherine Dower, Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco

 

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