Teresa Osborne | |
---|---|
Secretary of Aging of Pennsylvania | |
In office May 13, 2015 –January 4, 2019 | |
Governor | Tom Wolf |
Preceded by | Brian Duke |
Succeeded by | Robert Torres |
Personal details | |
Born | Scranton,Pennsylvania,United States |
Alma mater | Marywood University (B.S.W.,M.H.A.) |
Occupation | Commissioner,Pennsylvania State Civil Service Commission Former Secretary of Aging,Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
Known for | Headed Pennsylvania's successful efforts to enact "Peggy's Law" to combat elder abuse and exploitation |
Teresa Osborne is an American civil service professional and non-profit executive who served as a commissioner on the State Civil Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2019 and 2020. [1]
Previously,Osborne served in the administration of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf as head of the Pennsylvania Department of Aging,having been confirmed by the Pennsylvania State Senate as Secretary of Aging for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in May 2015. [2]
In 2007,she headed a statewide effort to secure the passage of "Peggy's Law" to provide greater protections for Pennsylvania's aging populating against elder abuse and exploitation. [3] [4] [5]
In March 2020,she was appointed as manager of advocacy and outreach by AARP Pennsylvania. [6]
Born in Scranton,Pennsylvania,Osborne earned her Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Health Service Administration degrees at Marywood University. [7] [8]
Prior to her state government tenure,Osborne served as the executive director of the Luzerne and Wyoming County Area Agency on Aging. She was then appointed as chancellor and chief operating officer of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton. [9] [10]
In 2007,she headed a statewide effort to secure the passage of "Peggy's Law," a series of legislative acts that were designed to provide greater protections for Pennsylvania's aging populating against elder abuse and exploitation, [11] and were enacted following the nursing home death from undiagnosed breast cancer of Peggy Rogers. [12] [13]
She also was appointed to the Mayor's Task Force on Law Enforcement &Mental Health in Scranton and played a key role in the planning and launch of the Northeast Behavioral Healthcare Consortium,a non-profit healthcare group that delivers services to more than ninety thousand members receiving medical assistance across a four-county region in northeastern Pennsylvania as part of the commonwealth's mandated managed care system. [14] [15]
In 2015,Osborne was nominated for the position of Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf. She was confirmed by the Pennsylvania State Senate for that post in May of that same year. [16]
Osborne left the Department of Aging in January 2019;her final day of service with the department was officially listed as February 8 of that year. Robert Torres,previously the acting secretary of state,succeeded her as acting secretary of aging on January 15. He was confirmed by the Pennsylvania Senate on June 4. [17]
Osborne was subsequently appointed to a seat on the Pennsylvania State Civil Service Commission and served as a commissioner on that state governing body which oversees the appointment and management of classified service employees across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [18] [19]
In March 2020,she became the manager of advocacy and outreach for AARP Pennsylvania. [20]
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health,safety,and well-being of America". Before the separate federal Department of Education was created in 1979,it was called the Department of Health,Education,and Welfare (HEW).
Scranton is a city in and the county seat of Lackawanna County,Pennsylvania,United States. With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 U.S. census,Scranton is the largest city in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Wyoming Valley metropolitan area,which has a population of 562,037 as of 2020. It is the sixth-largest city in Pennsylvania.
Donald Lewis Sherwood is an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives,representing Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district,from 1999 to 2007. He was defeated for reelection by Democrat Chris Carney in November 2006.
Patrick Joseph Murphy is an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd United States Under Secretary of the Army. He was the first veteran of the Iraq War to be elected to the United States House of Representatives,representing Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 2007 to 2011. Murphy is a former anchor of Taking the Hill on MSNBC. Murphy is currently on the faculty of Wharton Business School and the Distinguished Chair of Innovation at the United States Military Academy.
The Marketplace at Steamtown is a shopping mall in Scranton,Pennsylvania. United States. It was conceived in the mid-1980s as the keystone of downtown revitalization,though the project was not completed until 1993. Its opening in 1993 was nationally televised on CNN and attended by then-Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey,Sr.,who was instrumental in securing funding for and initiating development of the mall. The mall is built on approximately half of the former Delaware,Lackawanna and Western Railroad yard that was abandoned by Conrail in the late 1970s. The mall is located on Lackawanna Avenue in the heart of downtown Scranton,and includes a parking garage that stretches the length of the mall between Boscov's and the former The Bon-Ton. The mall has two levels with a food court overlooking Steamtown National Historic Site on the second floor. There is a pedestrian bridge leading from the food court out to Steamtown. The mall was featured several times on the NBC sitcom The Office which was set in Scranton.
Barry Lee Myers is an American attorney and businessman who was the chief executive officer and general counsel for AccuWeather,a privately owned for-profit weather-forecasting company founded by his elder brother,Joel Myers. As an AccuWeather executive,Myers lobbied unsuccessfully to restrict or undermine the National Weather Service,a governmental service which provides free weather forecasting and thus competes with AccuWeather's business model.
David Jonathon Shulkin is an American physician and former government official. In 2017,Shulkin became the ninth United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs and served under President Donald Trump. He was the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health from 2015 until 2017,appointed by President Barack Obama. On March 28,2018,President Trump dismissed Shulkin from his position by tweet,and announced that Physician to the President Ronny Jackson would be nominated as Shulkin's successor,although Jackson's nomination was withdrawn on April 26,2018,after allegations surfaced of misconduct and mismanagement while serving in the White House. He was succeeded by Under Secretary of Defense Robert Wilkie.
John Stanley Rice was an American Democratic politician,farmer and businessman from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Rice served in a variety of appointed and elected political roles over the course of a three-decade political career.
Kathleen Margaret Kane is an American former politician and lawyer who served as the 48th Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 2013 until her resignation in 2016 following her conviction for perjury,obstruction of justice,and related charges for illegal activities while she was attorney general. She was the first woman and first Democrat ever elected to the position.
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas is an American lawyer and politician who has been serving as the seventh United States Secretary of Homeland Security since February 2,2021. During the Obama administration,he also served in the Department of Homeland Security,first as director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (2009–2013),and as deputy secretary of DHS (2013–2016).
Martin Bradshaw Flynn Jr. is an American politician. He is a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate and he previously served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Flynn is a member of the Democratic Party.
Pedro Rivera is the former Pennsylvania Secretary of Education,having been nominated by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and confirmed in June 2015. Previously,he served as superintendent of the School District of Lancaster. Starting October 1,2020,he began a new role as President of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. A Philadelphia native,Rivera spent 13 years at the School District of Philadelphia before accepting the Lancaster position in 2008. During his tenure,Lancaster saw improved graduation rates,better reading proficiency scores and a growth in financial reserve funds. Rivera has been recognized by The Washington Post and the White House for his academic achievements.
Teresa Miller is the president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Health Foundation (KHF),and is also a member of the Kansas Governor’s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice.
Karen Murphy is an American registered nurse and healthcare administrator. She previously served as the Pennsylvania Secretary of Health,having been nominated by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and confirmed in May 2015. Prior to that,she served as Pennsylvania Director of the State Innovation Models Initiative and CEO of the Moses Taylor Health System.
Eileen H. McNulty is a former government official from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States.
Mary Adrian Barrett,I.H.M.,commonly referred to as Sister Adrian,was an American Catholic religious sister,who was a member of the Sisters,Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,an educator and the founder of Friends of the Poor,a nonprofit organization based in Scranton,Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump assumed office as president of the United States on January 20,2017,and his term ended on January 20,2021. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Joe Biden assumed office as President of the United States on January 20,2021. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
The presidential transition of George H. W. Bush began when then-Vice President Bush won the United States 1988 United States presidential election,becoming the president-elect,and ended when Bush was inaugurated at noon EST on January 20,1989.