⁸Contract DHHS 500-88-0055 was from HCFA's Health Standards and Quality Bureau (HSQB) for a project called Develop the Resident Assessment System and Database for Nursing Homes. The project team was led by North Carolina's Research Triangle Institute and included among its subcontractors the Social Gerontological Research Center of the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged (Boston), the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University (Providence), and the Institute of Gerontology at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The key investigators were Catherine Hawes, Brant E. Fries, Vincent Mor, John N. Morris, and Charles D. Phillips. Katharine Murphy was the lead nurse clinician, and Sidney Katz, M.D., headed the clinical panel. Key players at HCFA/CMS included Helene Fredeking, head of HSQB's Office of Long-Term Care; Wayne Smith, head of HSQB during the development of the RAI; Bruce Vladeck, the HCFA administrator; and (sequentially) project officers Allan Friedlob, Elliana Steele-Friedlob, and Sue Nonemaker.[Return to Text]