Payne Leaving Health

January Payne is leaving the Health section to become the editor of Managed Care Week, which specializes in providing news, data and strategic information about the evolving business of health care. We’ll miss her warmth and unerring common sense, but she will be working just a couple of blocks from here and promises to stay in touch.

January leaves a hole in our staff. Since she started here in 2004 as a Kaiser intern, she has focused readers’ attention on economic disparities in the provision of health care, she’s tracked the development of health-related Web sites, she’s alerted us to the health concerns of younger readers–and she’s always kept the consumer in mind.

With January’s imminent departure, Health has an opening for an energetic reporter to build on those interests.