Dr. Jones is an Instructor in the Division of General Internal Medicine. Her proposal is titled ‘Private equity acquisition of home health and hospice: disparities in health outcomes for older adults with advanced cancer’. Her mentors will be: Sean Morrison, MD, Jenny Lin, MD, MPH, Melissa Aldridge, PhD, MBA, and Bian Liu, PhD.
Dr. Jones is a clinician scientist whose program of research focuses on health disparities for seriously ill older adults. As an in-patient palliative care and oncology social worker, she witnessed firsthand how gaps in current care models negatively and inequitably impact older adults and their families. Dr. Jones pursued her PhD because she wanted to conduct research that would lead to improvements in the quality and equity of serious illness care received in the home. To date, her research has contributed to our understanding of disparities in dementia, cancer, and serious illness care, and she has a burgeoning focus on the impact of ownership models on health disparities. Dr. Jones has a strong scholarly track record – 12 articles published (6 as first-author)); 6 local, regional, national presentations, and 2 first-author manuscripts in preparation. The objective of the accepted KL2 proposal was to evaluate the trends and impact of private equity ownership of Medicare home health and hospice agencies on health disparities for people with advanced cancer, examining health outcomes of visit frequency, hospitalizations, ED visits, and discharge disposition.
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