The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University officially launched the Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy on Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Institute will aim to “broaden access to quality health care for everyone and to create a more just health care system,” according to the official press release. Leslie Margolin will co-chair the Institute alongside Steven Walerstein, executive vice president for medical affairs and medical director at NuHealth.
On March 8, Leslie Margolin brought her insight into Affordable Care Act policy and procedure to a panel discussion titled, “The Education Sector as a Health Care Partner: Schools’ Role in Improving Student Health Outcomes” hosted by Dickerson Employee Benefits Insurance Services.
On April 26th, Leslie Margolin addressed ProVisors—the nation's preeminent professional resource organization of senior level health care advisors. In her address titled, “The Virtues of Virtually Integrated Health Care...With or Without Health Care Reform,” Margolin outlined the health care crisis in the United States and offered a solution to tackle skyrocketing costs despite the possible repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Laurel G. Kaufer, Senior Advisor to The Margolin Group, will receive the 2012 "California Lawyer" Attorney of the Year Award along with Douglas E. Noll. For 3 years, Kaufer and Noll have led a pro bono project, Prison of Peace, providing inmates at maximum security Valley State Prison for Women with training in mediation, peacemaking and communication skills. Inmates who participate often experience dramatic personal transformations. Graduates of the program are instrumental in de-escalating and resolving conflicts among fellow inmates and between inmates and staff.
Joanna and Leslie are among 6 top business innovators profiled in the current edition of "CSQ," a southern California publication covering business leaders and entrepreneurs.
In a speech entitled “The Virtue of the Virtual”, Margolin described her concept of virtually integrated Care Innovation Corridors. Addressing hundreds of attendees at the annual conference of the Southern California Chapter of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a cause-based, not-for-profit organization providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology and management systems for the betterment of healthcare, Margolin invited her listeners to think beyond their individual silos and beyond their quarterly returns.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A total of 18 California hospitals, health systems, clinics and physician groups – including many serving underserved populations – will receive grants totaling nearly $20 million from Blue Shield of California to help them participate more effectively in accountable care organizations (ACOs).
September 24, 2011 – NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian today announced it has elected three new Board members with extensive experience in the health care and financial sectors. Leslie Margolin, Karen Linden, R.N., and George Wood, CFA, joined the Hoag Board of Directors for the 2011 – 2012 fiscal year, beginning October 2011.
by Duke Helfand
August 23, 2011
Scores of California hospitals, under pressure to reduce infections that kill an estimated 12,000 patients every year, say they have managed to cut costs and save lives through an initiative that has nurses and doctors redoubling efforts to prevent deadly germs from taking root. Click here for the full article.
Leslie Margolin has worked to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, accessibility and affordability of health care for 26 years, which could make her one hot political ticket in light of America’s national health care shortcomings and the passionate debates about how to fix the system.
But for the moment, politics are the last thing on her mind, although that was not how her career started. “Since I was in junior high, I wanted to go to law school as a foundation for becoming a U.S. Senator,” Margolin says.
