Valentine Group Health
Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, JD
CEO, National Nursing Centers Consortium
Philadelphia, PA
Eunice S. King, PhD., RN
Senior Program Officer and Director, Research and Evaluation
Independence Foundation
Philadelphia, PA
Background:
Tine Hansen-Turton has over 15 years of experience in providing executive management and has led several national movements using nurse practitioners in a primary care provider role.
Tine, known to be an effective change agent, systems-thinker and effective policy advocate, assists organizations in building capacity, including developing and setting up health centers; provides technical assistance in the areas of fundraising and program development, policy development, health education, advocacy, program planning and health center management; conducts health policy research and outcome evaluation; establishes quality care indicators for nurse practitioner care; represents retail-based convenient care clinics and nurse-managed health centers at local, state and national executive and legislative branch levels; and gives regular public health testimonies.
Tine Hansen-Turton is the CEO the National Nursing Centers Consortium (NNCC), a non-profit organization supporting the growth and development of over 250 nurse-managed health centers, serving more than 2.5 million vulnerable people across the country in urban and rural locations. Tine has also been instrumental in positioning Nurse Practitioners as primary health care providers globally. She has raised over 300 million dollars to date from local, state, and government contracts and grants, Congressional appropriations, foundations, corporations, and individual and donor contributions.
Tine Hansen-Turton also serves as Chief Strategy Officer for Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC). In her CSO capacity, she provides executive management and oversight of several public health initiatives and affiliate organizations and serves as the founding Executive Director for the Convenient Care Association (CCA), a national trade association of over 1250 emerging private-sector based retail clinics with the capacity to serve over 17 million people with basic health care services.
Tine’s accomplishments include, but are not limited to ensuring that Advanced Practice Registered Nurses and Physician Assistants were defined as primary care providers in state laws; negotiating changes in managed care reimbursement policies nationally for nurse practitioners and physician assistants; ensuring that Nurse Practitioners receive prescriptive privileges in many states; developing and implementing various nationally-recognized health promotion and primary prevention programs; and securing over 300 million dollars in direct support to community-based health centers. Most recently she played an instrumental role in the inclusion of nurse-managed health clinics in the federal Affordable Care Act.
Tine writes and publishes for many peer-review professional healthcare and legal journals and is a regular presenter at local, state and national health care conferences. She is Co-Author of“Community and Nurse-Managed Health Centers: Getting them Started and Keeping them Going,” an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award Winner, “Nurse-managed Wellness Centers: Developing and Maintaining Your Center,” both published by Springer Publishing Company, and “Conversations with Leaders,” published by Sigma Theta Tau International. In 2009 she co-founded Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal, anonline publication that brings a public focus to social innovators and their nonprofit organizations, foundations and social sector businesses in the Greater Philadelphia area.
Tine Hansen-Turton is a member of several organizations such as The Forum for Executive Women and the American and Pennsylvania Public Health Associations. She was recently inducted as a Fellow in the Philadelphia College of Physicians and an honorary Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She is a Trustee at the Greentree Community Health conversion Foundation. Tine Hansen-Turton also serves on the board directors of the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Health Promotion Council, Healthy Philadelphia and Beck Institute of Cognitive Therapy Foundation. She also serves on numerous local and state-wide advisory boards.
Tine Hansen-Turton has received several advocacy and leadership awards. In 2005 she received the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship, through which she traveled to New Zealand to support the growth and development of nurses providing primary care and subsequently organized a successful global healthcare conference in 2008. She also recently received the Philadelphia Business Journal 40 under 40 Leadership Award and was named one of the 101 emerging Philadelphia connectors by Leadership, Inc. In 2010 she was named American Express NextGen Independent Sector Fellow. Tine serves as a Presidential Advisor to the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Health Science Products and Services.
Tine received her BA from Slippery Rock University, her Master’s in Government Administration from University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute and her Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Eunice King is the Senior Program Officer and Director of Research and Evaluation for the Independence Foundation, where she has overseen the foundation’s grant making under the nurse-managed health care initiative for the past 14 years. The Independence Foundation provided the initial financial support for establishing the National Nursing Centers’ Consortium, which has remained an Independence Foundation grantee. During the past 14 years, Eunice has worked collaboratively with Tine Hansen-Turton, NNCC Executive Director, on several projects, one of the most important being the selection and successful implementation of an electronic practice management and health record software system used in six NNCC member nurse-managed health centers. In 2005, Eunice King completed an analysis of the challenges faced by the Philadelphia area nurse-managed health centers between 1993 and 2003 and the strategies employed to address them.
Overview:
Nurse managed clinics have been in existence since the later 1890’s and started when nurse met the needs of the immigrant population in NYC and nurses rode horseback in Kentucky to bring nurse midwifery services to the poor. Today, with the advanced in education for nurses and the shortage of primary care physicians, nurses will be the major providers of primary care in the future. This is not a “second best” approach, but rather one that is comprehensive and of the highest quality with impressive outcomes.
3 Key Points:
- Consumers need to get comfortable with the idea that nurses can lead a first quality primary care operation in partnership with all other health disciplines as they establish Medical Homes for patients in the community.
- The model is high quality care that everyone wants in the US as it is team based and very focused on patient education.
- States are slow to change legislation that creates barriers for advanced practice nurses to function at the extent of their education and these laws will need to change in order to bring health care to the population.
