Research Brief: Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program Fails to Lower Hospital Readmissions
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Featured Research Updates
Our work addresses some of the most pressing health and health care challenges facing our nation today.
For-Profit Hospitals Invest Less in Nursing Services
As States Consider Reforms, Study Finds Sharp Disparities in Staffing and Safety Between For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Hospitals
Black Maternity Patients More Likely to Experience Clinical Communications Failures
New Penn LDI Study Is Based on Hospital Incident Reports Rather Than Electronic Health Records
Better Care at Home: Family Plus Formal Help Makes a Difference
Economist Norma Coe’s Caregiving For Relatives Informed Her Research
Penn SUMR Scholars Arrive at 2025 AcademyHealth Research Meeting
Minneapolis Event Immerses Them in the National Health Services Research Community
Upcoming Events
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Decoding the Moment: Health Impacts of the “One Big Beautiful Bill”
A Conversation with Eric Roberts, PhD, Aditi Vasan, MD, MSHP, Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD, and Dan Gorenstein
Our Experts
Our 500+ Fellows are national experts and thought leaders who bridge all of Penn’s schools, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Kristan Scott, MD
- Fellow, Pediatrics/Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
George Lin
- PhD Student, Psychology/Clinical Psychology , School of Arts and Sciences
Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
- Director, Opportunity for Health Lab , Perelman School of Medicine
Sankey Williams, MD
- Professor Emeritus, General Internal Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor Emeritus, Health Care Management , Wharton School
Jose Reyes, MD
- Clinical Fellow , Perelman School of Medicine
Catherine Ishitani
- PhD student, Health Care Management and Economics , Wharton School
Austin DeChalus
- Fellow, Pediatric Hospital Medicine , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Ernesto Ulloa-Pérez, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
What We Do
As Penn’s hub for health care delivery, health policy, and population health, we connect and amplify over 500 Fellows across the University, and train the next generation of researchers.
Fast Facts
$160M+
Awarded in External Grant Funding
11,300+
Journal Articles Published (2020–2024)
$400K+
Awarded in Research Grants from LDI