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Decembery 21, 1999
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Beverly Malone Appointed to Key Federal PositionNamed Deputy Assistant Secretary at HHS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Beverly L. Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, president (1996-2000) of the American Nurses Association (ANA) has been named deputy assistant secretary for health within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Secretary Donna E. Shalala announced today. Malone was scheduled to end her second two-year term in June 2000, but will vacate her ANA position on January 9, 2000. ANA First Vice President, Mary Foley, MS, RN, will assume the presidency until a new president is elected in June.
In her new role, Malone will serve as the senior advisor to the assistant secretary for health, David Satcher, MD, in substantive program and political matters, in policy and program development, and in setting legislative priorities of the Office of Public Health and Sciences. She will also provide advice and counsel to the Secretary on public health and science issues. "I am extremely pleased that Beverly Malone will become a key member of the HHS team," Secretary Shalala said. "She brings with her a wealth of experience in working with the nation's leaders in health care to formulate policy and to focus on quality issues, especially in minority populations."
As ANA president, Malone served as the official representative of the association and as its spokesperson on public policy. Malone also represented U.S. nurses in the Congress of Nurse Representatives of the International Council of Nurses. During her presidency, Malone served on President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry and in March 1998 she was appointed to the Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting Committee. President Clinton also appointed Malone as a member of the U.S. delegation to the World Health Assembly and she was a participant in the president's roundtable discussion on the Patients' Bill of Rights. Representing nurses in a partnership to prevent medical errors, Malone served on the board of directors of the National Patient Safety Partnership--a collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the American Medical Association and other national health care organizations.
In addition, while president, Malone successfully led ANA through a major change of its organizational structure, approved by the House of Delegates in June 1999. The bylaws changes create a national labor entity within ANA, a task force on workplace advocacy, a congress on nursing practice and economics, and a new federal constituency.
Further, Malone was instrumental in negotiating a new relationship with its research and policy arm, the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), establishing the Academy as a 501(c)(3) corporation with the ANA as the corporate member. AAN was established in 1973 to provide visionary leadership to the nursing profession and the public in shaping future health care policy and practice that optimizes the well-being of the American people through synthesis of scientific and philosophical knowledge as the basis for effective health care policy and practice.
"I am honored to accept my new role," stated Malone, "and I look forward to bringing nursing's perspective to the table at this important policy-setting level." Malone added, "My colleague, Mary Foley, is a seasoned nurse leader who is well prepared to step into the top spot at ANA and lead the association forward."
ANA's Executive Director, David Hennage, PhD, MBA, said, "Dr. Malone's appointment means that a nurse will be able to advocate at the highest level of government. The association takes great pride in seeing Dr. Malone move into this influential position."
Malone's appointment is the latest in a series of appointments of registered nurses to leadership positions at HHS. ANA Immediate Past President, Virginia Trotter Betts, JD, MSN, RN, FAAN, is the senior advisor on nursing policy and senior health policy advisor at HHS, a post she was appointed to in February 1998. Additionally, Patricia Montoya, RN, MPA, serves as commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, and Catherine Dodd, MS, RN, serves as a regional director of HHS.
Since 1996, Malone has served as dean, interim vice chancellor of academic affairs and professor at North Carolina A&T State University, School of Nursing, in Greensboro. In North Carolina, Malone has served on the Governor's Task Force on the Nursing Shortage; commissioner of the North Carolina Commission on Health Services; vice-chair of the Board of Trustees, Moses Cone Health System; Board of Directors, the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program; and president of the North Carolina Council of Baccalaureate Deans and Directors. In her clinical career, Malone has worked as a surgical staff nurse, clinical nurse specialist, director of nursing, and assistant administrator of nursing. Her other accomplishments include: establishment of a fee-for-service consultation department within a hospital setting at the University of Cincinnati; an internship with Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI); a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health; and the ANA Minority Fellowship Program.
Malone is the second African-American to serve as president of the ANA. She has been included in Ebony Magazine's list of the 100 most influential African-Americans. She received a bachelor's degree in nursing form the University of Cincinnati in 1970, a master's degree in adult psychiatric nursing from Rutgers - the State University in 1972 and a doctorate degree in clinical psychology from the University of Cincinnati in 1981. She is the author of many articles on nursing, diversity and health care, and she has published book reviews for various journals, including the Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, American Journal of Nursing and Journal of Psychosocial Nursing.
Malone has received many honors, including Chi Eta Phi's Mabel Keaton Staupers Award; an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Indiana University in Indianapolis; Anthony J. Janetti Award for extraordinary contributions to healthcare; the Distinguished Alumnus Award for outstanding contribution to nursing and society; the Excellence in Nursing Education Award from North Carolina League for Nursing; and the Golden Key National Honor Society's Honorary Member Award, among others.