What’s New!!  White paper for RIPHA membership comments.   This white paper is being posted for comment by members of the Rhode Island Public Health Association before it is widely approved and distributed under the name of the RIPHA.  Kindly respond to Dr. Patricia RISICA mailto:Patricia_Risica@brown.edu within one week of this posting (BY 09/12/08), so that we may have it ready for our annual meeting.

The Rhode Island Public Health Association (RIPHA) and the Advocacy Committee are excited to present to you for your comment a white paper on RIPHA's Position on Long Term Care.  This paper was written to be an educational piece for the public and the Rhode Island General Assembly members in consideration of the impending approval of Rhode Island's Global Waiver petition.  The paper has been prepared with the generous research and writing assistance from Dr. Samantha Sterns and her colleagues of the Gerontology Center of Brown University.  The RIPHA Advocacy Committee and the full Board of Directors of RIPHA have approved the paper.