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New Team Members for the Tough Work Ahead
Welcome Sarah and Jamie! I’m excited to introduce two new members of our team who bring direct clinical experience to our policy and quality work. As we expand our work on evidence-based, innovative models of care and payment reform, we have a growing need for team members with direct experience at the bedside and designing…Read More…
New Staff Spotlight: Take Five with Sarah Wolf, MAS, RN, BSN, CCM & Jamie Agunsday, MA, MSN, RNC-OB, FAWHONN
Take Five with Sarah Wolf, MAS, RN, BSN, CCM, Senior Program Officer – Policy at the Quality Institute, and Jamie Agunsday, MA, MSN, RNC-OB, FAWHONN, Program Officer – Quality at the Quality Institute. Take Five with Sarah Wolf, MAS, RN, BSN, CCM What drew you from clinical care originally into health care quality and policy?…Read More…
Take Five with Lori Feldstein
Lori Feldstein, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey (GOCCNJ), a member of the Quality Institute’s Consumer Council. New Jersey’s new Medicaid Community-Based Palliative Care benefit officially launched on April 1. Can you explain what this benefit is, who it is designed to support, and why this…Read More…
Rowing In the Same Direction on Children’s Mental Health
Earlier this week, we gathered for breakfast at the Mercer County Boathouse with the many experts who served on our Children’s Mental Health Mapping Advisory Committee, along with child and family advocates, educators, funders, and clinicians, to celebrate the release of the report and discuss next steps to ensure implementation of the recommendations. At the…Read More…
What 18 Months of Research Revealed About Children’s Mental Health Care
Last week, at the New Jersey State House, we released the Children’s Mental Health Mapping Report, the product of 18 months of research, interviews, and monthly meetings with our external advisory group of experts. Joining us were the legislative sponsors of the bill to commission the work, many of our partners in producing the report,…Read More…
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…