Jocelyn Guyer, Co-Executive Director
Jocelyn Guyer is co-executive director at Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families (CCF) and a senior researcher at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. At Georgetown’s CCF, she has worked extensively on child and family health issues, including on the implications of the health reform law for children and families, reauthorization of CHIP, and the role of Medicaid in covering families. She joined Georgetown’s CCF from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, where she served most recently as an associate director. At the Commission, she led analysis of several emerging issues in health care for vulnerable Americans, including the implications of the Part D Medicare drug benefit for impoverished seniors and people with disabilities, and major proposals to restructure Medicaid.
In the past, she has served as a senior health policy analyst on health and welfare policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where she designed policy initiatives to expand coverage to low-income parents and worked with several states to implement family-based coverage expansions. She has also served as legislative research assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. She holds a Master of Public Affairs in economics and public policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Brown University.
Wraps up the Maximizing Enrollment National Briefing on Eligibility and Enrollment System Redesign: Lessons Learned for Implementing the Affordable Care Act

For individuals living with complex, often chronic conditions, and their families, palliative care can provide relief from symptoms, improve satisfaction and outcomes, and help address critical mental and spiritual needs during difficult times. Now more than ever, there is growing recognition of the importance of palliative care services for individuals with serious illness, such as advance care planning, pain and symptom management, care coordination, and team-based, multi-disciplinary support. These services can help patients and families cope with the symptoms and stressors of disease, better anticipate and avoid crises, and reduce unnecessary and/or unwanted care. While this model is grounded in evidence that demonstrates improved quality of life, better outcomes, and reduced cost for patients, only a fraction of individuals who could benefit from palliative care receive it. 























































































































































