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Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news organization committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics.

KHN’s mission is to provide high-quality coverage of health policy issues and developments at the federal and state levels. In addition, KHN covers trends in the delivery of health care and in the marketplace.

We provide new opportunities for health care journalists to produce in-depth work and a new vehicle to distribute it through collaborations with major news organizations and on this website. This website also features daily summaries of major health care news from across the nation, as well as original videos and a broad range of perspectives from contributing writers and issues.

KHN is an editorially-independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit private operating foundation, based in Menlo Park, Calif., dedicated to producing and communicating the best possible analysis and information on health issues.

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KHN's coverage of aging and long term care issues is supported by a grant from The SCAN Foundation, based in Long Beach, Calif. The SCAN Foundation is an independent nonprofit foundation dedicated to advancing a sustainable continuum of quality care for seniors that integrates medical treatment and human services with the greatest likelihood of a healthy, independent life.

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EDITORS  

John Fairhall, Editor-In-Chief, was a reporter and editor at the Baltimore Sun for 27 years. As an assistant managing editor, he oversaw health and science coverage as well as projects.

Peggy Girshman, Executive Editor, is a former managing editor of National Public Radio, an Executive Editor at Congressional Quarterly and also worked as a producer for Dateline NBC and several PBS series. She has won two Peabody Awards for health policy coverage.

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NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

KHN has a distinguished National Advisory Committee who include:

• Chairman: Leonard Downie, Jr., vice president at large, The Washington Post, and former executive editor of the Post;
  
  
• Jim Brady, editor-in-chief, Digital First Media
  
  
• Karen Dunlap, president and trustee of the Poynter Institute;
  
  
• Mark Katches, editorial director for the Center for Investigative Reporting and California Watch;
  
  
• Kevin Klose, professor and former dean of the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and former president of National Public Radio, Inc.;
  
  
• Bill Kovach, founding chairman of Committee of Concerned Journalists, former executive editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution;
  
  
• Diana Mason, Rudin professor of nursing at Hunter College-Bellevue School of Nursing, City University of New York, and director of the Center for Health Media and Policy;
  
  
• Arlene Morgan, associate dean, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism;
  
  
• Tom Rosenstiel, director, Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism;

• Evan Smith, CEO and editor-in-chief of the Texas Tribune; 

• Cathy Trost, vice president, Exhibits, Programs & Media Relations, Newseum, founding director of the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families.

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