Charlene Harrington, Phd

Charlene Harrington, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, is Professor of Sociology and Nursing in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Harrington served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Nursing Home Regulation whose l986 report led to the passage of the Nursing Home Reform Act of l987, and she was elected to the IOM in 1996. Her team of researchers designed a model California consumer information system website for nursing homes funded by the California Health Care Foundation (launched in October 2002) that she continues to maintain and expand. Since 1994, she has been collecting and analyzing trend data on Medicaid home and community based service programs and policies. In 2003, she became the principal investigator of a five-year $4.5 million national Center for Personal Assistance Services funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. She is Associate Director of the John A. Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence and Director of the new doctoral program in nursing and health policy at UCSF. She has served on several IOM committees and has testified before the US Senate Special Committee on Aging, and has written more than 200 articles and chapters and co-edited five books while lecturing widely in the U.S. and the U.K.

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