Mary Kaschak – Executive Director
Ms. Kaschak is Executive Director of the Long-Term Quality Alliance in Washington, DC. She comes to the Alliance with ten years of experience in aging and health policy, most recently as Deputy Director of the Aging and Disability Business Institute at the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a). At the Business Institute, Ms. Kaschak played a lead role in advancing the readiness and business acumen of community-based organizations (CBOs) to successfully engage in the design and delivery of integrated care systems for older adults and younger adults with disabilities. Ms. Kaschak’s responsibilities at the Business Institute included business development, grant management, and oversight of day-to-day operations.
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Claire Jensen – Manager, Policy and Communications
Claire Jensen is Policy and Communications Manager of the Long-Term Quality Alliance, where she supports LTQA research and manages member engagement and communication. Ms. Jensen brings several years of experience in policy, research, and advocacy spaces both domestically and internationally. She previously worked at LTQA as a Policy Analyst in 2016-17.
Prior to her current role at LTQA, Ms. Jensen supported public health policy research projects at the African Institute for Development Policy in Malawi after completing a Global Health Corps fellowship there. She was also a 2015 National Academy of Social Insurance intern at the Social Security Advisory Board. Ms. Jensen has a Master of Social Work with a concentration in Policy Practice from Columbia University School of Social Work and Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College in East Asian Studies with a minor in Sociology.
G. Lawrence Atkins – Consultant
Dr. Atkins is a Consultant for the Long-Term Quality Alliance in Washington, DC. He is a Board member and immediate past-President of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He was recently the Staff Director of the federal Commission on Long-Term Care, which issued its final report in September 2013. Prior to that, he was Executive Director, U.S. Public Policy at the global pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck.
Dr. Atkins is a veteran of more than 30 years of health and social policy analysis, policy development, and legislative representation at the local, state, and federal levels. He directed Public Policy at Schering-Plough Corporation; was founder and President of Health Policy Analysts, Inc., a firm providing consultation on pharmaceutical, health benefits, and health care reimbursement issues; was Executive Director of the Corporate Health Care Coalition, an alliance of Fortune 100 companies on federal and state health reform issues; and headed a health and benefits policy practice in the Washington office of the New York law firm Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts. During the 1990s, Dr. Atkins served on two quadrennial Social Security Advisory Commissions – 1991 as a Commission member and 1995 as a member of the Technical Panel.
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Dr. Atkins holds a Ph.D. from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, where he is currently a member of the Board of Overseers. He holds master degrees from the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky, and an undergraduate degree from Kenyon College.
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Anne Tumlinson – Consultant
Anne Tumlinson has over two decades of research and consulting experience in post-acute and long-term care financing and delivery. Her consulting firm, Anne Tumlinson Innovations, helps organizations respond to demographic changes and delivery system reform, with a special emphasis on addressing gaps in financing for long-term services and supports for older adults with long-term care need. Her research focuses on measuring the impact on Medicare acute spending of managing the long-term social supports and services needs of frail older adults. Anne has testified before Congress and appeared before the Long-Term Care Commission, and the Bipartisan Policy Center.
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Anne served previously as a Senior Vice President at Avalere Health, where she founded and led Avalere’s post-acute and long-term care consulting practice for 14 years. There she created, developed and launched a data-based provider navigation tool to improve collaboration and coordination between hospitals and post-acute care providers in making discharge placement decisions for frail older adults. She led many analytic and modeling projects that analyzed the impact of functional impairment on health care spending. Prior to that, she led Medicaid program oversight at the federal Office of Management and Budget, conducted health services research at LifePlans, Inc and worked as a health and aging policy aide for Congressman John Lewis (D-GA). She earned a Masters in Human Services Management from the Heller School at Brandeis University.
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Henry Claypool – Consultant
Henry Claypool is the former Director of the Health and Human Services Office on Disability and a founding Principal Deputy Administrator of the Administration for Community Living. He also served as a presidentially-appointed member of the Federal Commission on Long-Term Care, advising Congress on how long-term care can be better provided and financed for the nation’s older adults and people with disabilities, now and in the future, and was Executive Vice President of the American Association of People with Disabilities, which promotes equal opportunity, economic power, independent living and political participation for people with disabilities. He is Affiliated Faculty at the Institute for Health & Aging at UCSF and principal of Claypool Consulting.