Health Care Quality and Innovation

Mentor Areas

Dr. Naylor has led an interdisciplinary program of research designed to improve the quality of care, decrease unnecessary hospitalizations, and reduce health care costs for vulnerable community-based elders. As the chief architect of the Transitional Care Model, Dr. Naylor’s work is elucidating the unique needs of chronically ill older adults and their family caregivers and offering high quality, cost-effective, evidence-based solutions to address a major health concern in the U.S. and across the globe. Her team is also providing a roadmap for others who seek to bring empirically tested research into health care organizations, to improve the quality of health care and to advance the policy changes essential to sustain such approaches to care.

Description:

We welcome students in our research center who wish to learn about how organizations adapt, implement and adopt evidence-based innovations into clinical settings. Data are being explored from multiple National Institutes of Health and foundation studies, as well as, ongoing translational efforts of the Transitional Care Model in diverse health systems across the U.S. Students will have the opportunity to learn about various research methods, participate in data processing and management and dissemination activities. Curated datasets are available from National Institutes of Health sponsored trials and longitudinal studies from which additional research questions are being explored.

Preferred Qualifications

We welcome students at all preparation levels in our research center who are interested in learning about the unique challenges experienced by hospitalized older adults as they transition home and better understand the changes in health and health care experienced by this population. A student may propose a new study and must identify a faculty mentor from our team who will collaborate with the student to complete the project.