Joann Ahrens, M.P.A., Research Project Manager, joined the Center for Home Care Policy and Research in January 2002. She is currently managing a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant project, Information Brokering for Long-Term Care, which seeks to strengthen links between research-based data & information useful to policy makers and contribute to productive dialogue between researchers and policy makers.
In addition, Ms. Ahrens is managing a large Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-sponsored project on the work environment and patient safety that is examining the relationships between the organizational work place, the nursing work force, and preventable adverse events in the home health care setting.
Ms. Ahrens also facilitates the Center's communication strategy through increased internal and external publications.
Ms. Ahrens is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and received a Master of Public Administration degree with a concentration in health finance from New York University's Wagner School. Previously, Ms. Ahrens managed a variety of strategic, financial, and policy projects for the CEO of VNSNY. Before joining VNSNY, Ms. Ahrens was a consultant at William M. Mercer.
Ahrens, J. In press.
An important side effect of hospice care: Lower mortality for surviving spouses.
Home Healthcare Nurse.
Vetter, M.J., Bristow, L., & Ahrens, J. In press.
A model for home care clinicians and home health aide collaboration: Diabetes care by nurse case managers and community health workers.
Home Healthcare Nurse.
Ahrens, J. In press.
Home hospitalization benefits stroke patients.
Caring.
Ahrens, J. 2004.
Home care payment changes in a post-BBA world.
Caring, 23(4):
40-44.
Gursen, M.D. & Ahrens, J. 2004.
The key to a new home care protocol: Prospective visits.
Caring, 23(1):
40-44.
Bruno, L. & Ahrens, J. 2003.
The importance of screening for depression in home care patients.
Caring, 22(11): 54-58.
Ahrens, J. and Nadash, P. 2003.
Informal
caregivers: Who are they and how do they differ?
Caring, 22(3):
46-47.
Ahrens, J. 2003.
Combating medication errors
in home health.
Caring, 22(1): 56-58.
Ahrens, J. January 2002.
Giving care &
comfort in the aftermath of tragedy: New York's finest nurses show their
true colors.
Caring, 21(1): 10-11.
Ahrens, J., Feldman, P.H., Frey, D. Fall,
2002.
Preventing Medication Errors in Home Care.
New
York: Center for Home Care Policy and Research, Visiting Nurse Service of
New York.
Raphael, C., Ahrens, J., and Fowler, N. 2001.
Financing end-of-life care in the USA.
Journal of the
Royal Society of Medicine, 94(9): 458-461.
Ahrens, J. 1997.
The learning curve and the
health care industry.
Hospital Cost Management and Accounting,
9(6). (Also published in Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations,
2nd edition, 1999.)
Raphael, C. & Ahrens J.A. 2002.
Home
health therapies
In: Macmillan Encyclopedia on Aging.. Ekerdt,
D. J., Applebaum, R.A., Holden, K.C., Post, S.G., Rockwood, K., Schulz,
R., Sprott, R.L., and Uhlenberg, P., eds. New York, NY: Macmillan
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