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Jennie Chin Hansen, R.N., M.S., F.A.A.N., of San Francisco, CA, recently was elected by the Board to serve as AARP President-Elect for the 2006-2008 biennium and will automatically succeed to AARP President in 2008. In addition, Ms. Hansen serves on the Board Audit and Finance Committee, the Governance Review Committee, and the AARP Services, Inc. Board. She previously chaired the AARP Foundation Board and was vice chair of the Board Membership Committee.
In 2005, Ms. Hansen transitioned after nearly 25 years as executive director of On Lok, Inc., a nonprofit family of organizations providing integrated and comprehensive primary and long-term care community based services in San Francisco. On Lok is the prototype for PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), which was signed into federal legislation in 1997 making this Medicare/Medicaid program available to all 50 states. She currently is teaching nursing at San Francisco State University and chairs a nurse leadership grant focused on acute care hospitals and safety at UCSF's Center for the Health Professions.
Ms. Hansen serves in various leadership roles that include Commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee (MedPAC), board member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program. She also serves on boards of the Effective Healthcare Stakeholders Group of AHRQ, Lumetra (California's Quality Improvement Organization) and the California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO). She is past president of the American Society on Aging. In 2006, Ms. Hansen served as a national juror for the first-ever Purpose Prize sponsored by Civic Ventures.
Among Ms. Hansen's awards are the 2005 Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator's Achievement Award; the 2002 Gerontological Society of America's Maxwell Pollack Award for Productive Aging; the Women's Healthcare Executive Woman of the Year of Northern California in 2000; and the 1997 Women Who Could Be President Honoree from the League of Women Voters of San Francisco. In 2005, Ms. Hansen was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing. | 