New Jersey Takes a Critical Step to Improve Children’s Mental Health Access
New Report Maps the System, Identifies Barriers, and Charts a Path Forward TRENTON, NJ — The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute (Quality Institute) today released the Children’s Mental Health Mapping Report, a report commissioned by the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF) in response to a legislative directive that recognized the growing…Read More…
New Jersey Health Matters Poll Release – Children’s Mental Health
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Take Five with Amy Fisher
Amy Fisher, Program Director at Rutgers Project ECHO, a member of the Quality Institute’s Education Council, Institutes of Higher Learning. Project ECHO expands access to specialty knowledge to frontline health care providers in New Jersey. How has the program evolved to address New Jersey’s most pressing health needs? Since our inception, Rutgers Project ECHO has…Read More…
Tracking the Human Toll of Federal Health Policy Changes in New Jersey
Leading the Quality Institute means working on improving health care safety, quality, and affordability for everyone. Our work includes tracking policies that either help or harm that mission and working with you, our members, to make things better. With federal assaults on public health, including attacks on evidence-based science and medicine, cuts to insurance subsidies…Read More…
Celebrating 20 Years of the Mayors Wellness Campaign and the Value of Local Leadership
On Tuesday we brought together mayors, health care leaders, funders, government officials, and community advocates to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC) — a milestone that recognized two decades of local leadership advancing health and wellness in communities throughout New Jersey. The underlying theme of our gathering was the extraordinary importance of local leadership in building healthier communities…Read More…
Take Five with Dovid Friedman, MD
Dovid Friedman, M.D., CEO of CHEMED Health Center, an FQHC and member of the Quality Institute’s Provider Council. How do you describe CHEMED’s role in its community and the breadth of its services? First, we have an incredibly cosmopolitan community: a large Jewish Orthodox community, a large Hispanic community, and Italian, Korean and Vietnamese communities…Read More…
Quality Institute Names Three Leaders to Board of Directors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 13, 2026 Tyla Minniear New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute tminniear@njhcqi.org Quality Institute Names Three Leaders to Board of Directors Strengthening expertise in behavioral health, finance and policy TRENTON — May 12, 2026 — The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute today announced the appointment of Frank A. Ghinassi, Ph.D, ABPP,…Read More…
Twenty-Nine Hospitals in New Jersey Earn an “A” on the Spring 2026 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
Media Contact: Carol Ann Campbell New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute cacampbell@njhcqi.org (973-567-1901) Twenty-Nine Hospitals in New Jersey Earn an “A” on the Spring 2026 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade Six Fewer “A” Hospitals Than Last Round of Leapfrog Reports TRENTON, New Jersey — May 6, 2026 – The Leapfrog Group today released its Spring…Read More…
Take Five with Stephanie Bell
Stephanie Bell, Medicaid Innovation and Policy Strategist, Vimo. Vimo is a member of the Quality Institute’s Professional and Technology Council. Vimo supported New Jersey’s launch and technical operations of its state-based insurance Marketplace — Get Covered NJ. The launch was smooth and uneventful. What lessons do you draw from that success? First, we had a strong state partner. Get Covered…Read More…