Appendix A

Committee Meetings and Presenters of Testimony

The Committee on Improving Long-Term Care held a total of eight meetings starting in 1997. These meetings involved segments open to the public, as well as closed sessions for committee deliberation. The dates of these eight meetings are listed below:

November 13–15, 1997, Washington, D.C.
March 12–14, 1998, Washington D.C.
June 11–12, 1998, Washington, D.C.
August 27–28, 1998, Woods Hole, MA
October 1, 1998, Irvine, CA
January 14–17, 1999, Washington, D.C.
April 9–10, 1999, Washington, D.C.
April 27–28, 2000, Washington, D.C.

The second meeting of the Committee, in March 1998, also comprised a public hearing. The committee heard testimony from various constituencies and interested parties at this hearing. The following people testified during this meeting:

Sally White and Sue Whitman, IONA Senior Services

Marsha Greenfield, Consumers United for Assisted Living (CUAL)

Elma Holder, National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform

William Lasky, Assisted Living Federation of America

Cynthia Dunn, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging

Reverend Monsignor Charles Fahey, National Center for Assisted Living

Joanne Schwartzberg, M.D., American Medical Association

Larry Lawhorne, M.D., American Medical Directors Association

Laurie Kennedy-Malone, Ph.D., R.N., National Conference of Geriatric Nurse Practitioners

Peter Rabins, M.D., American Psychiatric Association and the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

Linda Mondoux, M.S., R.N., C.S., American Nurses Association

Mary Ann Wilner, Paraprofessional Health Care Institute

Ingrid McDonald, Service Employees International Union

Toby Edelman, National Senior Citizens' Law Center

Nancy Coleman, J.D., American Bar Association

Faith Mullen, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)

Pamela Nadash, National Council on Aging

Marianna Grachek, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

William Keane, Alzheimer's Association

Karen Pace, National Association for Home Care

Paul Willging, American Health Care Association

Karen Tucker, American College of Health Care Administrators

Douglas Andrews, National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators

Bob Kafka, American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT)

Richard Bringewatt, National Chronic Care Consortium

Heather Bennet McCabe, Family Voices

The Committee also heard from numerous experts at two workshops. Presenters including the following:

Ruth Stein, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Joshua Wiener, Ph.D., Urban Institute

David Stevenson, M.S., Urban Institute

Penny Feldman, Ph.D., Visiting Nurse Service of New York

Jeanette Price, Solomon Smith Barney

Jack Payne, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Gordon Beckwith, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Rosalie Kane, D.S.W., University of Minnesota Long-Term Care Resource Center

John Durso, J.D., Katten, Muchin, and Zavis

Andrew Kramer, M.D., University of Colorado Center on Aging

Marvin Feuerberg, Ph.D., Health Care Financing Administration

Robert Kane, Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Catherine Hawes, Ph.D., Myers Research Institute

Ted Benjamin, Ph.D., University of California in Los Angeles

Brenda Klutz, Deputy Director, California Department of Health Licensing and Certification

Patricia McGinnis, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform

Melvin Matsumoto, Administrator, The Redwoods

Sara Sinclair, CEO, Sunshine Terrace Foundation

David Banks, CEO, Beverly Enterprises