During a virtual seminar featuring top experts and U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Research Associates Mary Ersek and Rachel M. Werner emphasized the need to grapple with inadequate quality measures and inequitable patient care as part of a plan to improve nursing home quality. Ersek and Werner are among 12 co-authors of a consensus study published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents, Families, and Staff. The seminar was organized by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.
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Rachel M. Werner (PARC Research Associate) and Mary Ersek (PARC Research Associate) co-authored a National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report calling for sweeping reorganization of the nursing home industry entitled, "The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality." The report points out that despite nursing home residents making up less than half of one percent of the U.S. population, as of October 2021, they accounted for approximately 19 percent of all COVID-19 deaths. The report shows “the pandemic also highlighted the pervasive ageism evident in undervaluing the lives of older adults.” Read more in the LDI Research Update.
Killebrew-Censits Chair in Undergraduate Education
Professor of Medicine
Ph.D., Nursing Science, University of Washington, 1991
