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School of Nursing and Health Studies Dean to Co-Chair Bipartisan Health Reform Committee

Nilda “Nena” Peragallo, dean of the University of Miami’s School of Nursing and Health Studies, has been named co-chair of the Health Professional Workforce Initiative of the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

“I am honored to serve on the Health Professional Workforce Initiative and look forward to serving along with other dedicated professionals in tackling some of the challenging health care issues of our time,” Dean Peragallo said.

The Health Professional Workforce Initiative has two key goals:

• Identify and analyze challenging workforce issues around how to structure, educate, retain, license, finance, and regulate a health care workforce able to deliver patient-centered, team-based, high quality care.

• Highlight creative and innovative workforce practices in the public and private sector and produce a set of policy options and issue briefs that convey interdisciplinary needs and challenges. Findings will be communicated at the federal, state, and local levels.

Peragallo is joined as co-chair of the initiative by Kavita Patel, a fellow and managing director of delivery system reform and clinical transformation at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution.

In 2007, former Senate Minority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, and George Mitchell founded the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), a nonprofit organization that develops and promotes solutions that draw support from both Republicans and Democrats and generates the necessary political momentum to achieve real progress. As the only Washington-based organization promoting bipartisanship as an effective means of overcoming the challenges facing the nation, the BPC is working to restore civility and respectful discourse to the national debate.

The BPC currently has projects focused on health care, energy, national and homeland security, economic policy, and transportation. Political and business leaders, experts, and academics head each of the initiatives, working closely with policy specialists and former congressional and White House aides to develop consensus-based solutions that both Republicans and Democrats can support. The Bipartisan Policy Center Action Network provides strategic advice and political advocacy to ensure policy recommendations have traction in Congress, the Executive Branch, and the stakeholder community.

 

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