Partners in Care Foundation Honored for Exceptional Service by the National Council on Aging
For Immediate Release News release: National, California
April 9, 2008
For more information, contact: Kathy Abbott-Mayer, Director of Strategic Communications, Partners in Care Foundation, 818-837-3775 ext. 137
Partners in Care Foundation Honored for Exceptional Service
by the National Council on Aging
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 28, 2008 - The Health Promotion Institute (HPI) of the
National Council on Aging (NCOA) has presented the Molly Mettler Award to W. June Simmons, President/CEO of Partners in Care Foundation and MSW, LCSW, for her outstanding leadership of Partners in Care in the areas of health promotion and aging. The award was presented to Ms. Simmons at the annual conference of the NCOA and the American Society on Aging (ASA), in Washington, D.C.
The Mettler award recognized Ms. Simmons and Partners’ visionary work and innovative approaches to healthcare under her leadership. Partners has been instrumental in creating, funding, and operating cutting edge health and social services research and programs, with special focus in Health Promotion for Older Adults.
The Mettler award recognizes Partners in Care’s most significant current work which features evidence-based approaches for prevention and enhanced self-management of the development of major chronic health conditions such as diabetes and cardiac conditions. Targeted to those in need of prevention, Partners in Care evidence-based programs help individuals find powerful proven ways to adjust their lifestyles through better nutrition, physical activity and properly prescribed medications; to optimize self-care, resulting in much slower progression of chronic conditions and avoidance of the most harmful effects of these and other diseases.
“The Board and staff of Partners in Care Foundation firmly believe that delivery of health care and social services must change, especially in community and home settings,” noted Ms. Simmons. “As we enter our 10 Year Anniversary, we at Partners in Care continue to take an active role in developing initiatives and programs that meet the needs of individuals, of specific patient populations, and providers/health care delivery networks. These new approaches encourage prevention, early intervention, self-care management practices, and cost-effective, patient-friendly integration of care from hospital to home and community. Our purpose is to reduce suffering and improve quality of life.”
Ms. Simmons, representing Partners in Care, serves on many national and local technical committees, think tanks and advisory boards, including American Society on Aging’s National Board; National Council On Aging’s national Leadership Council; the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) Triple Aim Initiative, designed to better understand new models of care that can improve the individual patient experience and the health of entire communities, at a reasonable per capita cost; the Practice Change Fellows Program; the City of LA Area Agency Team for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Hispanic Elders Health Initiative; and others. She has served in a leadership capacity for the Los Angeles County Long Term Care Coordinating Council and the California Department of Health Services Community Choices Grant Advisory Committee.
NCoA’s Health Promotion Institute (HPI) is devoted to promoting optimal quality of life including good physical, mental, and emotional health and social and spiritual well-being for older adults. HPI’s Molly Mettler Award is presented to an individual or organization for outstanding leadership in the field of health promotion and aging.
CONTACT: For additional information contact Kathy Abbott-Mayer, Director Strategic Communications, Partners in Care Foundation, 818-837-3775 ext 137. kabbott-mayer@picf.org
About Partners in Care, www.picf.org: Partners in Care is a leading non profit which creates, tests and implements healthcare program innovations. Partners’ new models of care improve “Quality of Life” for those served, while reducing the cost burden on healthcare delivery systems. Based in San Fernando, California, Partners has followed its mission of “Changing the Shape of Healthcare” for the last 10 years. Currently Partners is taking many of its program innovations national as models of care that are targeted to change and improve healthcare delivery in the U.S. ###
