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In the Hands of Strangers: Are Nursing Home Safeguards Working?

Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 10:00 a.m.
2123 Rayburn House Office Building


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Panel I
Mr. Lewis Morris
Chief Counsel to the Inspector General
Office of the Inspector General
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
330 Independence Ave., SW,
Room 5527
Washington, DC 20201
The Honorable Richard Blumenthal
Attorney General
State of Connecticut
55 Elm Street
Hartford, CT 06106
Mr. Luis Navas-Migueloa
Long-Term Care Ombudsman
Commission on Aging and Retirement Education
City of Baltimore
10 N Calvert Street, Suite 300
Baltimore, MD 21202
Mrs. Susana Aceituno
White Plains, NY
Panel II
 
Mr. Tom Debruin
President
Pennsylvania Service Employees
International Union
1800 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

David Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis
University of Wisconsin-Madison
610 Walnut Street, Room 1163
Madison, WI 53726

Powerpoint presentation slide

Andrew Kramer, M.D.
Head, Professor of Medicine
Division of Health Care Policy and Research
University of Colorado-Denver
13611 E Colfax Avenue, Suite 100
Aurora, CO 80045
Mr. Neil L. Pruitt, Jr.
Chairman and CEO
UHS-Pruitt Corporation
1626 Jeurgens Court
Norcross, GA 30093
Mary Jane Koren, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Vice President
The Commonwealth Fund
One East 75th Street
New York, NY 10021

 
Panel III
 
Mr. Kerry Weems
Acting Administrator
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW,
Room 314G
Washington, DC 20201
 

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