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Transforming the Health Care Landscape

written by Todd McLeish

Rambur recently turned her attention to the topics of health and payment reform, and her insights have been well received. Rambur’s 2017 guide to understanding the Affordable Care Act was — within 10 days — the most downloaded article in the history of the journal Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice , with the editor calling the manuscript, “one of the best overviews ever written on this complex and often controversial topic.”

Transforming health care to better serve people’s needs — that is Betty Rambur’s mission. It’s a mission that has taken her in multiple directions, but all stem from her core focus on heath policy and the changing needs and skills of the health care workforce. The Routhier Endowed Chair for Practice in the University of Rhode Island (URI) College of Nursing,

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