JASA Congratulates our CEO, Kathryn Haslanger, who was Elected to the Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors
The
Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high
performing health care system that achieves better access, improved
quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most
vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority
Americans, young children, and elderly adults.
The
Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on
health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and
policy. An international program in health policy is designed to
stimulate innovative policies and practices in the United States and
other industrialized countries.
Below is the press release from the Commonwealth Fund:
New York, NY, January 7, 2014- Kathryn
D. Haslanger, chief executive officer of JASA (Jewish Association
Serving the Aging), has been elected to the Commonwealth Fund Board of
Directors, effective immediately. Haslanger has spent more than 30 years
in health care policy, research, and delivery, holding leadership roles
in organizations dedicated to ensuring access to health care for New
Yorkers. JASA, a New York-based nonprofit, serves more than 53,000 older
adults each year through its housing and home health divisions. Prior
to her appointment as CEO of JASA, Haslanger served as a senior vice
president for Community Benefit and External Affairs at the Visiting
Nurse Service of New York, from 2006 to 2012. In that role, she led the
development of the organization's community benefit strategy and new
community initiatives, including a Caregiver Support demonstration
project.
Earlier
in her career, Haslanger was vice president for health practice and
policy at Maimonides Medical Center, a 705-bed nonprofit teaching
hospital in Brooklyn, where she developed programs to help ensure safe
transitions across care settings for geriatric patients and advanced
adoption of health information technology, and designed care
coordination models that colocated primary care physicians with
behavioral health clinicians.
Haslanger
was at the United Hospital Fund of New York from 1990 to 2005. While
serving as vice president for public policy, among other roles, she
shaped the organization's policy agenda and identified, developed, and
managed programs in the areas of health insurance coverage, managed
care, health care finance, and Medicaid. She also led a coalition to
support Disaster Relief Medicaid in New York City after September 11, enabling 340,000 people to obtain Medicaid coverage during a four-month period of simplified eligibility.
"Kathryn
Haslanger brings to The Commonwealth Fund Board a wealth of experience
in turning health policy into real improvements in the health and lives
of people, especially the most vulnerable," said Board chairman James R.
Tallon, Jr., who is president of the United Hospital Fund of New York.
"Her knowledge of health systems and health care delivery will be an
invaluable asset as The Commonwealth Fund continues to monitor and
inform the implementation of the Affordable Care Act."
"We
are very fortunate to be able to benefit from Kathryn Haslanger's
practical knowledge and forward thinking as The Commonwealth Fund
continues its work toward a high performance health system, and as we
face the challenges of rising health care spending and growing needs of
our aging population," said Commonwealth Fund President David
Blumenthal, M.D.
Haslanger
earned a J.D. from Boston College Law School and an M.C.R.P. from
Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She is a member of
the New York State Medicaid Managed Care Advisory Panel, appointed by
the Speaker of the Assembly, as well as the National Academy of Social
Insurance and the United Hospital Fund Health Policy Forum.
