Rozensky involved in health care reform recommendations
Ronald H. Rozensky, Ph.D., a professor in the department of clinical and health psychology and associate dean for international programs, recently co-authored a set of recommendations for health care reform legislation sent to Congress and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Rozensky is chair-elect of the Health and Human Services' Bureau of Health Professions' Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary Community Based Linkages.
The recommendations were written in conjunction with three other Bureau of Health Professions committees: the Council on Graduate Medical Education, the Advisory Council on Nursing Education and the Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry. The recommendations state that future education and training dollars in Title VII and Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act and Graduate Medical Education be focused on inter-professional education to assure that the health care workforce of tomorrow is prepared to work together as a team.
"This letter to Congress and the Secretary represents a strong consensus across all health care disciplines and highlights what is best for patient care in a truly integrated health care system," Rozensky said. "We believe that Congress will see this patient-centered, non-guild approach, as a cooperative model for a system that must assure access to ongoing quality care with cost-effectiveness that can only come about with true, inter-professional, team-based health care."
