Jami DelliFraine

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration

Contact Information

604Q Ford Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

(814) 863-2861

jld40@psu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Children's health/hospital research, quality of care, underserved and uninsured populations, safety-net facilities, volume-outcome relationships.

Teaching Interests

Organizational theory and management, health care quality.

Publications

Robert Carden and Jami DelliFraine. (2004). “An Examination of Hospital Satisfaction with Blood Suppliers” Transfusion, 44(11), 1648-1655.

Murray J. Côté, Donald F. Van Enyde, Jami DelliFraine, and Stephen L. Tucker. “Computer Skills for the Next Generation of Health Care Executives” The Journal of Health Administration Education, forthcoming in Winter, 2005.

Robert Carden and Jami DelliFraine. “An Examination of Blood Center Structure and Hospital Customer Satisfaction: What Can Centralized and Decentralized Blood Centers Learn from Each Other?” Health Marketing Quarterly, forthcoming in volume 22 (3), 2005.

Jami DelliFraine (2004). An Examination of Specialization and Outcomes of Care in Children’s Hospitals: Are Children’s Hospitals Better Qualified to Care for Children? Doctoral Thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, VA.

Winner of 2004 Academy of Management, Health Care Management Division, Best Paper Based on a Dissertation

Education

Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, May 2004, Health Services Organization and Research, Department of Health Administration

M.S., Trinity University, December 2000, Department of Health Care Administration

B.A., University of South Florida, May 1997, Department of Philosophy