Mary Takach is a program manager at the National Academy for State Health Policy where she works on projects focused on primary care, specifically medical homes, federally qualified health centers, workforce, and quality issues. She is the staff lead on a project that is helping states advance medical homes in their Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs. She also is the lead staff on a National Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Health’s Health Resources and Service Administration that is seeking to inform state policy makers about issues that affect federally qualified health centers. Mary joined NASHP in 2007 with a background in health policy and clinical care and has worked on Capitol Hill as a Legislative Assistant to two Congressmen, where she focused on health care, welfare, veterans’, and aging issues and in a wide variety of health care settings for nearly 15 years as a Registered Nurse. She holds a Master’s in Public Health degree from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Northeastern University.
