URI nursing professor earns national recognitions

BETTY RAMBUR, a professor of the College of Nursing at the University of Rhode Island, has received national recognition for her work advancing the profession and for efforts addressing the cost and quality of health care, URI announced. / COURTESY BETTY RAMBUR
BETTY RAMBUR, a professor of the College of Nursing at the University of Rhode Island, has received national recognition for her work advancing the profession and for efforts addressing the cost and quality of health care, URI announced. / COURTESY BETTY RAMBUR

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island announced that professor Betty Rambur of the College of Nursing has received national recognition for her work advancing the profession and for efforts addressing the cost and quality of health care. The National Quality Forum recently named Rambur, the College of Nursing’s Routhier Endowed Chair for Practice, to its Cost and Resource Use Committee. In addition, Rambur received a 2017 State Award for Excellence from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

“I am honored … to be recognized by such leading national organizations, whose missions promote quality health care in service to pressing societal needs,” Rambur said in the statement. “I look forward to contributing to the important work of the National Quality Forum and continuing to ensure that nurses and nurse practitioners have a seat at the table on the important health care issues of our day.”

Throughout her career, Rambur has focused on population health, reducing disparities and overtreatment. She is a recognized leader in the area of workforce redesign within alternative payment models, and the linking of measurement and cost to drive change, reported URI.

The National Quality Forum, a nonprofit membership-based organization, works to address the cost of health care across the nation and align those efforts with quality measures; it seeks to achieve better care, affordable care, healthy people and healthy communities. The Cost and Resource Use Project is a multiphase initiative to evaluate and endorse appropriate measures that achieve affordability and maintain quality. As a committee member, Rambur was nominated and selected from a national cohort of health care and quality measurement leaders.

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The American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the largest professional membership organization for nurse practitioners, selected Rambur for a 2017 State Award for Excellence based on her work as the sole nurse on the Green Mountain Care Board, which oversees innovation and regulates health care in Vermont. Before coming to URI in 2016, Rambur had been dean of the College of Nursing and Health Science at the University of Vermont. Rambur will receive the award at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ national conference in Philadelphia in June.

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