Professor Beth Marfeo was recognized by the American Occupational Therapy Association

Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Beth Marfeo was nominated by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) to represent the OT profession on the CMS Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for the Refinement of Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)/Nursing Facility (NF), and Home Health (HH) Function Measures. Beth’s nomination was approved by the CMS TEP panel committee and she will serve on this panel in July. As a member of the TEP she will be providing guidance to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) related to the development of post-acute care (PAC) quality measures related to function.

Marfeo also had a recent manuscript accepted and is ‘in press’ at the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation journal. Marfeo, E., Ni, P., Wang, C., Weiss, D., & Cheville, A. L. (2021). Identifying Clinically Relevant Functional Strata to Direct Mobility Preservation among Patients Hospitalized with Medical Conditions. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.