The SCAN Foundation

The SCAN Foundation’s vice president of operations Rene Seidel is Featured in a Long Beach Business Journal Article on the Philanthropic Work of Local Foundations

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The SCAN Foundation's August 2010 policy brief highlighting opportunities in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that could lead to improvements in California’s long-term services and supports infrastructure received broad media coverage throughout Californa and around the country.

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Dedicated exclusively to the CLASS Act, the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of Public Policy and Aging Report was picked up in media throughout the country.  The issue, which was funded by The SCAN Foundation, featured seven articles that recount the origins of the CLASS Act, analyze the legislation's key provisions, and explore potential hurdles of implemtation.

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The SCAN Foundation's Director of Policy Dr. Lisa Shugarman penned an August 9, 2010 blog for the Altarum Institute, a nonprofit health systems research and consulting organization. Titled, "Health Care Reform and Long-Term Care – The Beginning of System Redesign," the piece, featured in the Institute's Health Policy Forum, discusses how the Affordable Care Act establishes a framework for care coordination and a future where connections between medical care and supportive services are strengthened for the betterment of the end users: persons with disabilities and older adults with chronic health conditions and functional impairment.

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