Apr 20 2010
The Associated Press/ABC News: "President Barack Obama has nominated Harvard medical professor Donald Berwick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid. Obama had signaled his plans in March and made them official Monday." The nomination must be confirmed by the Senate (4/19).
Politico 44: Berwick "is also the president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a nonprofit that seeks to improve patients' medical treatment." In a statement, President Obama noted that Berwick has dedicated his career to improving health outcomes and "providing better care at loser cost. ... That's one of the core missions facing our next CMS Administrator, and I'm confident that Don will be an outstanding leader for the agency and the millions of Americans it serves" (4/19).
Related earlier KHN coverage, From The KHN Archives: Checking In With Dr. Donald Berwick, (Galewitz, 11/12).
Kaiser Health News also summarized the earlier press coverage of Dr. Berwick's expected nomination, including reports about the challenges he will face at CMS and his interest in the U.S. health delivery system.
 This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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