Dr. Monica O’Reilly-Jacob is an assistant professor at the Columbia University School of Nursing. She is a family nurse practitioner and nationally recognized nursing health services researcher, with a focus on the primary care nurse practitioner workforce, value-based payment models and (re)emerging delivery system innovations such as NP-owned practices and NP home-based primary care. A nursing health services researcher, O’Reilly-Jacob provides evidence to support policy changes that maximize the capacity of the nurse practitioner (NP) workforce to meet the demand for primary care in underserved areas. Through Medicare claims analysis and survey research, Dr. O’Reilly-Jacob examines NP scope of practice and the cost and quality of NP care. With funding from the American Nurses Foundation, O'Reilly-Jacob is leading a multidisciplinary team to examine the readiness of NP-owned practices to engage in value-based payment. She holds a PhD in Social Policy from Brandeis University, an MSN from Boston College and BSN from the University of Portland.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, she was the first to examine the effects of temporary full practice authority on NPs, indicating that organizations had a greater impact on NP autonomy than did state policy. Her earlier work demonstrates that NPs effectively utilize healthcare resources and are ideally suited for inclusion in value-based payment models. O’Reilly-Jacob’s work has been published in nursing and interdisciplinary journals, and she serves on national and state advisory councils. The overarching goal of her research is to capitalize on the cost-effective practice style of nurse practitioners to improve the appropriate utilization of primary care.

For ten years prior to her doctorate in health policy, Dr. O’Reilly-Jacob provided primary and urgent care to vulnerable populations in federally qualified community health centers and rural clinics of Central America. And, notably, she was in the inaugural cohort of Maragert Flinter’s Nurse Practitioner Residency Program at the Community Health Center, Inc in Meriden, CT.

Dr. Monica O’Reilly-Jacob is an assistant professor at the Columbia University School of Nursing. She is a family nurse practitioner and nationally recognized nursing health services researcher, with a focus on the primary care nurse practitioner workforce, value-based payment models and (re)emerging delivery system innovations such as NP-owned practices and NP home-based primary care. A nursing health services researcher, O’Reilly-Jacob provides evidence to support policy changes that maximize the capacity of the nurse practitioner (NP) workforce to meet the demand for primary care in underserved areas. Through Medicare claims analysis and survey research, Dr. O’Reilly-Jacob examines NP scope of practice and the cost and quality of NP care. With funding from the American Nurses Foundation, O'Reilly-Jacob is leading a multidisciplinary team to examine the readiness of NP-owned practices to engage in value-based payment. She holds a PhD in Social Policy from Brandeis University, an MSN from Boston College and BSN from the University of Portland.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, she was the first to examine the effects of temporary full practice authority on NPs, indicating that organizations had a greater impact on NP autonomy than did state policy. Her earlier work demonstrates that NPs effectively utilize healthcare resources and are ideally suited for inclusion in value-based payment models. O’Reilly-Jacob’s work has been published in nursing and interdisciplinary journals, and she serves on national and state advisory councils. The overarching goal of her research is to capitalize on the cost-effective practice style of nurse practitioners to improve the appropriate utilization of primary care.

For ten years prior to her doctorate in health policy, Dr. O’Reilly-Jacob provided primary and urgent care to vulnerable populations in federally qualified community health centers and rural clinics of Central America. And, notably, she was in the inaugural cohort of Maragert Flinter’s Nurse Practitioner Residency Program at the Community Health Center, Inc in Meriden, CT.