US: SCAN Health Plan Forms Geriatric Advisory Board

  SCAN Health Plan announced today that it has tapped six of the nation’s foremost geriatric, clinical and health policy experts to help guide the health plan in its offering of geriatric health management programs to seniors in Southern California.   ;   The newly created geriatric advisory board, unique in its composition and charter, will review programs currently offered by SCAN, make recommendations regarding new programs under consideration, and provide SCAN leadership with broad and unfettered perspective into pressing geriatric health policy issues.   ;   The first meeting of the new advisory board will be held in January in Long Beach, California.   « We are very fortunate to have such a highly respected group of individuals agree to share their expertise for the benefit of our nation’s rapidly growing senior population, » said Timothy Schwab, M.D., M.H.A., chief medical/information officer at SCAN Health Plan.   ;   « Today’s seniors are confronting confusing and complex issues as it pertains to healthcare, and it is our responsibility to make sure that their needs are met with dignity and attentiveness. This advisory board will play an important role in helping us achieve this, particularly as it pertains to serving the health management