Health Policy

May 2013 • By Kate Darby Rauch
Making the Case for Safer Nursing Homes
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Laura Wagner is on a mission to expose unsafe nursing home practices and develop safer alternatives.
February 2013 • By Andrew Schwartz and Lisa Cisneros
Breaking News: UCSF School of Nursing’s Vlahov and Wong Assume National Leadership Roles
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At a critical time for nursing, nursing education and health care, UCSF School of Nursing has voices in high places.
February 2013 • By Martha Ross
The Ethics Evangelist
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Former nurse and renowned bioethics scholar Barbara Koenig returns to her training ground of UCSF to help the campus become a leader in researching the impact of scientific advances on health and medicine.
August 2012 • By Martha Ross
Nurses Take Center Stage at White House Talk on Affordable Care Act
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Patricia Dennehy and Oisaeng Hong are among national nurse leaders in a discussion with the White House on health care reform.
July 2012 • By Brandie Hollinger
Commentary: From the Supreme Court Steps, a Nurse Assesses the Impact of the ACA Decision
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Pediatric intensive care nurse Brandie Hollinger has spent the summer embroiled in the policy and politics of health care reform. When the Supreme Court handed down its decision on the Affordable Care Act, she was there.
July 2012 • By E. Angel James
Commentary: Midwife Points to Missing Link in Halting Unintended Pregnancies
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Nurse-midwife Angel James believes the ACA’s easing of access to contraception is an important step, but that halting unintended pregnancies depends more on underlying social factors that run deeper than legislative solutions.
June 2012 • By Ruth Malone
Commentary: How Nurses Can Help Grow the Anti-Tobacco Industry
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Nurse scientist Ruth Malone explains how better understanding the tobacco industry can help nurses in their ongoing fight against what she calls a “tobacco disease epidemic that killed 100 million people worldwide during the last century.”
June 2012 • By Kate Darby Rauch
Veteran in Fight for Better Nursing Home Care Makes the Case Against Chains
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Charlene Harrington finds that at the nation’s top 10 for-profit nursing chains there is less nursing coverage and there are more deficiencies and violations than in government-run nursing homes. Why are so few people paying attention?
May 2011 • By Wendy Max, PhD
Valuing Health: How the UCSF School of Nursing Helped One Economist to Thrive
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Economist Wendy Max explains in the 2010 Thirtieth Annual Helen Nahm Research Lecture how UCSF School of Nursing has helped her become a leader in studying the high costs of health care.
November 2010 • By Andrew Schwartz
Expert Resources Lost: Budget Crisis Shrinks Vital Program for Child Care Providers
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The California Child Care Healthline offered an array of research-based services, health information and health education for child care providers and families to help children get a healthy start in life.

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