2013 Summit Keynote Speakers: Jennie Chin Hansen
Jennie Chin Hansen is CEO of the American Geriatrics Society, the nation’s leading membership organization of geriatrics healthcare professionals whose shared mission is to improve the health, independence and quality of life of older people. Prior to this she served for two years as president of AARP. In 2005, Hansen had spent nearly 25 years with On Lok Inc., a nonprofit family of organizations providing integrated, globally financed and comprehensive primary, acute and long-term care community-based services in San Francisco. The On Lok prototype became the Program of All-Inclusive Care to the Elderly (PACE) program, which was signed into federal legislation in 1997 making this Medicare/Medicaid program available in all 50 states.
Hansen has just completed a six-year term as a federal commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). In 2010 she served as an IOM member on the RWJ Initiative on the Future of Nursing. She currently serves as a board member of the SCAN Foundation and a board officer of the National Academy of Social Insurance. She has just been appointed as a board member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the American Hospital Association Equity of Care Committee, and she is the co-chair of the steering committee for the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC).
Hansen has received multiple awards over the years, including the 2003 Gerontological Society of America Maxwell Pollack Award for Productive Living, a 2005 Administrator’s Achievement Award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and an honorary doctorate from Boston College in 2008.
