LDI Health Policy Seminar with Charles Ornstein

“What we can–and cannot–learn from health care outliers”

12:00p.m. – 1:20p.m. November 4, 2016

Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk

Charles Ornstein is a senior reporter at ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization in New York.

Prior to joining ProPublica in 2008, he was a member of the metro investigative projects team at the Los Angeles Times. In 2004, he was a lead author on a series on Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, a troubled hospital in South Los Angeles. The articles won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service. In 2009, he co-authored a series of stories that detailed serious failures in oversight by the California Board of Registered Nursing and nursing boards around the country. The work was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He previously worked at the Dallas Morning News, where he covered health care on the business desk and worked in the Washington bureau. Ornstein is a past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists and an adjunct journalism professor at Columbia University. Ornstein is a 1996 Penn graduate.

Also see:Health Care System Insights of an Investigative Journalist” for more background.

This event is free and open to the public, but please register.