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Improving Patient CarePowerful Patient, 2009 Week 14Host: Joyce Graff, http://powerfulpatient.org, editor@vhl.org 800-767-4845
Mary Andrus from Easter Seals and the Partnership to Improve Patient Care will speak with Joyce about the new efforts in Washington to compare effectiveness and improve patient care.
About Our Guest
Mary Andrus lives and works in the Washington, D.C. area.
Mary served for 23 years “On the Hill” with Representative James Albert Smith Leach (R-IA), a fifteen-term Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the 2nd district of Iowa in the state's east central and southeast area. Before redistricting, Leach served the 1st district from 1977-2003.
Before that, she was a social worker and respiratory therapist. So she has seen health care from the hospital side as well as from the government side.
She is currently the Assistant Vice President for Government Relations at Easter Seals. In this role she advocates for better patient care with government offices and members of Congress, and provides current information to the patients she serves. She is active in a number of coalitions, including the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC). http://www.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=OPA_Medicare_Issue_Page
Mary Andrus
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