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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: Episode 86: The New Patient Advocacy Super Group You Should Know About with Mary Richards from Partners For Better Care
Description: Partners for Better Care is proud to introduce its Executive Director, Mary Richards. Mary joins the team with nearly twenty years of patient advocacy, policy, lobbying, and Congressional experience. For five years, Mary led the Alzheimer's Association's federal policy agenda on Capitol Hill and with the Administration, which included efforts on medical innovation, aging, care delivery, and long-term care. Kicking off a period of intense activity and successes for the Alzheimer's community, Mary worked to draft and enact the National Alzheimer's Project Act – the first Alzheimer's-specific bill to be enacted in 18 years. Research funding remained a top-priority fo...