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Improving Care for Older Adults

The Long-Term Care Experiment Everyone is Watching

Washington State’s First-in-the-Nation Insurance Plan Begins Payouts in Mid-2026, and Researchers Will Weigh its Effect on Care, Costs, and the Long-Term Care Markets

Lin-Chieh Meng, MS

  • PhD Student, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
Hojjat Salmasian

Hojjat Salmasian, MD, PhD

  • Vice President and Chief Data and Analytics Officer , Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Associate Professor, Pediatrics , Perelman School of Medicine