C-TAC Blue Chair Fund Lifetime Achievement Award: Amy Berman
The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) announced that Amy Berman, Senior Program Officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation, has received the Blue Chair Fund Lifetime Achievement Award for her commitment and dedication to improving the lives of older adults, especially those living with serious illness.
Amy Berman is well known for her work to increase access to palliative care and for leading the development and dissemination of innovative, cost-effective models of care that improve health outcomes for older adults. Ms. Berman helped launch the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, which has now spread evidence-based practices that reduce harm and focus on what matters to older adults to over 3,000 care settings. Ms. Berman is a stage 4 breast cancer patient who openly shares her experiences and continues to speak out about her health care choices, palliative care, and implications for patients, practice, and policy.
Amy Berman, along with fellow Blue Chair Fund awardees, Mona Negm and Brad Rosen, were honored at a ceremony on October 24 at the C-TAC/CAPC Leadership Summit. The C-TAC Blue Chair Fund was founded to honor the legacy of Shirley Roberson, a patient advocate, who envisioned the day when our health system provides high-quality care based on patient-clinician connection and empathy.
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