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Special Event: Opportunities and pitfalls for health transformation in the new administration.
May 22, 2025, 1-2:30 PM
IPS Student
Open House
June 11th, 2025, 12-2 PM ET
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IPS Convenings
The IPS Convenings series brings distinguished expert guests to the Institute for Policy Solutions to explore, illustrate, and amplify the transformative effects of employing a Nurse-Driven Model of Care to eliminate inequities in health care and health. Collectively, the series highlights the nine components of the Nurse-Driven Model of Care and how the model can reform our health care system by providing a mix of social and clinical care that ensures optimum health for everyone.
SPECIAL EVENT
Opportunities and pitfalls for health transformation in the new administration.
The Boundaries of Health:
Debating the ROI of Programs and Policies that Integrate Social and Clinical Care
May 22, 2025 1-2:30pm
Hybrid Event: Hopkins Bloomberg Center & Virtual
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
Executive Director,
Institute for Policy Solutions
Kate McEvoy
Executive Director,
National Assoc. of Medicaid Directors
Chris Pope
Senior Fellow,
Manhattan Institute
Kody Kinsley
Former Secretary,
NC Dept. of HHS
The new Trump administration is pursuing intense transformation of how our government works. One of the administration’s stated goals, “Make America Healthy Again,” includes objectives that will require new thinking about preventing and treating chronic illnesses and eliminating health inequities. This dynamic panel discussion will debate the philosophical, financial and health implications of a reimagined health care system that pushes the boundaries of traditional care to include investments in mitigating harmful social determinants of health—an approach that has supporting and opposing views.
Support for an integration of social and clinical care argues that combining healthcare services with social support systems—such as housing, nutrition, and transportation—can lead to better health outcomes by treating patients holistically, while also reduce long-term healthcare costs by preventing chronic conditions, reducing hospital admissions, and promoting overall well-being. Opposing views, however, raise concerns about the logistical challenges, increased costs in the short-term, and the difficulty in coordinating diverse systems.
Don’t miss this timely debate featuring some of the leading thinkers on this topic.
IPS STudent Open House – June 11, 2025
In Person and VIRTUAL
Learn more about the IPS mission to eliminate health care and health inequities
Join Johns Hopkins School of Nursing professor and IPS Executive Director Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health, to learn more about the Institute for Policy Solutions at JHSON and how you can get involved!
To attend this open house (in person or virtual), click “RSVP NOW” to contact IPS or email the Institute at [email protected].
IPS Student Open House
June 11, 2025
12-2 p.m. ET
555 Penn Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
IPS is committed to focusing on nurse-driven solutions to health inequities through:
- Identifying, designing, and evaluating new approaches to healthcare delivery
- Developing pathways for nurse-driven policies and programs on a national scale
- Creating more opportunities for nurses as policy leaders and change agents
- Redesigning health and health care by investing in the whole person
- Elevating expertise, knowledge, and insights of nurses in the media
Past Events
How Nurses Can Drive Whole-Person Health and Eliminate Health Inequities within Medicaid
In the United States, the highly skilled and highly trusted nursing workforce constitutes the nation’s largest group of health care professionals. Leveraging the skills and scale of the nursing workforce can meaningfully advance whole-person health and health equity within Medicaid.
Join Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MPH, LCSW, ANP-BC, PMHNP-BC, FAAN, Kody Kinsley, MPP, Linda Elam, PhD, MPH, and Megan Ingraham, MPH, MBA, for this exciting webinar exploring how to harness the nursing profession’s full potential by refining care models, addressing policy barriers, and fostering aligned payments.
This virtual event was recorded live on Thursday Dec. 12, 2024.
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
Executive Director of The Institute for Policy Solutions and Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Linda Elam
Managing Director, Manatt Health
Kody Kinsley
Secretary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Megan Ingraham
Managing Director, Manatt Health
Key topics will include:
- How a nurse-led model of care can address both clinical and social care to eliminate health and health care inequities in Medicaid
- Opportunities for optimizing the nursing workforce in strengthening the safety net
- Policy and financing recommendations that could support greater scale up of nurse-led care.
This discussion will build on a recent paper published in Nursing Outlook coauthored by several participating presenters which considered how the adoption of a nurse-led model of care can improve access to and quality of care for Medicaid members.
