Keystone Policy Series: Health Advocacy Bio Ann Torregrossa

Ann Torregrossa has over 47 years experience in health policy and Medicaid law. She is the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Health Funders Collaborative, which is made up of more than 40 Pennsylvania health foundations. Previously, she was Director of the Governor's Office of Health Care Reform (GOHCR), where she helped develop Governor Rendell’s comprehensive health care reform initiative, Prescription for Pennsylvania. As Director of GOHCR, she was responsible for coordinating health policy among the state agencies that provide health care coverage or services and for implementing Governor Rendell’s health reform plan. As part of Pennsylvania’s health care reform efforts she oversaw Pennsylvania’s Chronic Care/Patient-Centered Medical Home initiative, which had over 900 primary care providers engaged in improving primary care by participating in regional learning collaboratives. Prior to that position, Ann was Deputy Director and Director of Policy for GOHCR. Before joining the Rendell Administration Ann was a cofounder and the Director of the PA Health Law Project, a public interest law firm that provided free assistance to consumers facing difficulties obtaining needed publicly funded health care. Ann has been the Phyllis Beck Chair at Temple Law School, an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she taught an interdisciplinary graduate course on Publicly Funded Health Law and at Villanova Law School, where she taught Poverty Law. Ann has a J.D. from Villanova Law School and is in process of completing her Master of Liberal Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.