Health Affairs Briefing on Community Care For High-Need Patients

Tuesday, June 4, 2019
9:00 am – 1:00 pm Eastern
Conrad Hotel – Washington, DC 

As the population ages and the number of older Americans with serious illnesses grows, a large and diverse workforce will be needed to enable people to live in their homes and communities.  The June 2019 issue of Health Affairs examines this emerging challenge with a special issue devoted to understanding how we can recruit, train and deploy the necessary clinical and non-clinical workforce and fully integrate family caregivers into care processes.

Please join us on June 4 when panels of authors will present their work and participate in a robust discussion of the topic with members of the audience. 

The following authors will present their work: 

• William K. Bleser, Research Associate, Payment and Delivery System Reform, Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University, on “ACO Serious Illness Care: Survey And Case Studies Depict Current Challenges And Future Opportunities”

• Karen Donelan, Senior Scientist, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, on “Health Workforce Roles in Care Management and Social Needs Assessment in Primary Care and Geriatric Practices”

• Carolyn C. Foster, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, and Ann and Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, on “Home Health Care For Children With Medical Complexity: Workforce Gaps, Policy, And Future Directions”

• Taressa K. Fraze, Research Scientist, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, on “Eyes In The Home: ACOs Use Home Visits To Improve Care Management, Identify Needs, And Reduce Hospital Use”

• Lisa I. Iezzoni, Professor, Harvard Medical School, on “Historical Mismatch Between Home-Based Care Policies And Laws Governing Home Care Workers”

• Richard W. Johnson, Senior Fellow, Director, Program on Retirement Policy, Urban Institute, on “The Financial Burden Of Paid Home Care On Older Adults: Oldest And Sickest Are Least Likely To Have Enough Income”

• Arif-Hossain Kamal, Associate Professor of Medicine, Business Administration, and Population Health Sciences, Duke University, on “Policy Changes Key To Promoting Sustainability And Growth Of The Specialty Palliative Care Workforce”

• Perri Morgan, Professor and Director of Research, Physician Assistant, Duke University, on “Impact Of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, And Physician Assistants On Utilization And Costs For Complex Patients”

• Stipica Mudrazija, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute, on “Work-Related Opportunity Costs Of Providing Unpaid Family Care In 2013 And 2050”

• Katherine A. Ornstein, Assistant Professor, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, on “Spousal Caregivers Are Caregiving Alone In The Last Years Of Life”

• Jennifer Reckrey, Associate Professor, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, on “Beyond Functional Support: The Range Of Health-Related Tasks Performed In The Home By Paid Caregivers In New York”

• Diane Schweitzer, Acting Chief Program Officer, Patient Care, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

• Nina R. Sperber, Research Scientist, Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation, Durham VA Health Care System and Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, on “Including Family Caregivers in Seriously Ill Veteran’s Care: A Mixed-Methods Study”

• Joanne Spetz, Associate Director of Research, Healthforce Center, University of California San Francisco, on “Home And Community-Based Workforce For Patients With Serious Illness Requires Support To Meet Growing Needs”

• Brad Stuart, Chief Medical Officer, Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, on “A Large-Scale Advanced Illness Intervention Informs Medicare’s New Serious Illness Payment Model”

• Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Research Scientist, Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation, Durham VA Health Care System and Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, on "A Path To Achieving High Quality Team-Based Care For People With Serious Illness”

• Yingzhe Yuan, PhD Student, Boston VA Healthcare System, on “Users Of Veteran-Directed Care And Other Purchased Care Have Similar Hospital Use And Costs Over Time”

• Leah Zallman, Director of Research, Institute for Community Health, on “Care For America's Elderly And Disabled Relies On Immigrant Labor”

Follow live tweets from the briefing @Health_Affairs, and join the conversation with #homebasedcare.

Health Affairs is grateful to Joanne Spetz of the University of California San Francisco for serving as issue adviser.