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Author: Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, JD
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Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, is currently the Executive Director of the National Nursing Centers Consortium (NNCC), a professional organization that grew from 11 regional health centers to a national representation of over 100 nurse-managed health centers in the U.S. that provide quality primary health care, health promotion and disease prevention services to one million vulnerable families annually.
She has a strong policy development background and has been instrumental in changing health policies and regulations at the state and national level, I.E., prescriptive authority and defining nurse practitioners as primary care providers in the law.
Tine Hansen-Turton also teaches health policy, program planning, and outcome evaluation to nursing students in the Public Health Masters Program at La Salle University, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, and is a frequent guest speaker at the Temple University, Jefferson University, and University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing, Philadelphia.
Prior to joining the NNCC, she was Vice President of Program Development for a geriatric company where she developed, planned, and implemented health care programs for seniors in the Philadelphia region.
Earlier, she was the Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the Philadelphia Housing Authority, where she implemented and directed comprehensive health care programs for 100,000 residents.
Tine Hansen-Turton is a member of several organizations, such as the Forum for Executive Women, American and Pennsylvania Public Health Associations, and has published in several journals and books.
She is currently President of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials.
Tine Hansen-Turton has published in several journals and is a regular presenter at local, state, and national conferences on health care and housing.
Ms. Hansen-Turton is a 2005 Eisenhower Fellow and NNCC received a Community Impact Award from GlaxoSmithKline in 2005.
She has received several awards such as the State Excellence Award, awarded by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 2002, the Champion Award, awarded by the University of Pennsylvania, Health Annex 2002, the Annual Writers Award, awarded by Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA in 2001, and the John Heinz Friend of Nursing, awarded by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association in 1999.
She is currently pursuing a law degree at the James E. Beasley Law School at Temple University.