“Perhaps before we begin to talk about building a seam-less health delivery system, we should start by perfecting a seam-full health delivery system.”
~ Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH

Influencing Policy

  • Colorado Senator Michael Bennet’s July 2009 speech for the kick-off of the Northwest Denver Care Transitions Program®.


  • Wyoming Public Radio’s May 4, 2009 interview with Dr. Eric Coleman on Care Transitions.


  • The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have contracts to launch the Care Transitions Intervention® at 14 sites nationwide. A November 8, 2008 article in the Brownsville Herald highlights the implementation of the CTI® at sites in the Rio Grande Valley.


  • The New York Times’ Science Times podcast on September 16, 2008, featured an interview with Dr. Coleman about care transitions. In the same edition, an article on patient discharge from the emergency room included quotes from Dr. Coleman on care transition issues.
    *Please note: the podcast is a zipped file. To access it, click “save” on the pop-up window and save the folder to your hard drive. When the download is complete, click “close” on the pop-up window. Locate the “NYTimes_Podcast_2008.zip” folder on your hard drive, right click on it, and select “extract all”.


  • Dr. Coleman testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging during the July 23, 2008 hearing on Person-Centered Care: Reforming Services and Bringing Older Citizens Back to the Heart of Society.
    Link to the video of the hearing         Written transcript of Dr. Coleman’s testimony.
    * Please note, Real Player is required to view the video in the link above; free downloads are available at www.real.com


  • Dr. Coleman’s editorial on post hospital transitions: How Can We Ground the Frequent Fliers? Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2007;55(3):467-468. Link to article on journal’s website


  • The June 2007 MedPAC Report (specifically Chapter 5)


  • The Commonwealth Fund’s Interview with Dr. Coleman, published in the November/December 2006 issue of the Fund Digest.


  • McKnight’s Long-Term Care News interviewed Dr. Coleman on transition issues for their May 2005 “60 Seconds With…” feature.


  • Coleman EA, and Berenson RA. Lost in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities for Improving the Quality of Transitional Care. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2004;140:533-536.
    Abstract
    •        National Health Policy Forum presentation

  • Colorado Public Radio broadcast with Dr. Eric Coleman on Care Transitions
    An 18 minute broadcast, aired originally on November 22, 2004 and again on March 25th, 2005


  • Coleman, EA and the Care Management Workgroup. One Patient, Many Places: Managing Healthcare Transitions. A Report from the Robert Wood Johnson Care Management Workgroup. February 2004.


  • The American Geriatrics Society position statement: Improving the Quality of Transitional Care for Persons with Complex Care Needs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003;51(4):556-557.


  • Proceedings from the Aspen Transitional Care Conference September 18-20, 2002. Aspen, CO.

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