Ellen Schultz

Ellen Schultz is a program manager at CHP/PCOR who focuses on quality measurement and care coordination. In collaboration with members of the CHP/PCOR Quality Indicators team, she has developed quality indicators for a variety of patient populations, conditions, and processes. Her research on care coordination includes both conceptual work around a framework and definitions, exploration of the evidence base for care coordination, and extensive searches for measures of care coordination. She and her colleagues also developed the Care Coordination Measures Atlas, a compendium of care coordination measures. She also serves on the National Quality Forum Care Coordination Steering Committee. Ellen is interested in the potential for using health information technology, such as electronic health records, to both facilitate coordination and measure coordination processes, as well as other novel approaches to quality measurement. She is also interested in using emerging data sources, such as All-Payer Claims Databases, for quality measurement and reporting.

Other recent projects include supporting the AHRQ Quality Indicators program and developing AHRQ Emergency Department Prevention Quality Indicators. In past work, she developed indicators of the health and well-being of Medicaid home and community-based services beneficiaries, investigated hospital readmissions in California, validated the AHRQ Prevention Quality Indicators, and investigated timeliness of lung cancer care within the Veteran’s Health Administration.

Ellen joined CHP/PCOR in November 2005 after completing an MS in Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has previously studied media influences on adolescent smoking and pigment patterns in zebrafish.  She received a BA in biology and French from Washington University in St. Louis.