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Quality Institute Co-Leading the Essential Jobs, Essential Care New Jersey Coalition
Everyone cared for at home, in a group home, or in a long-term care facility, is supported by a workforce that often is unseen or undervalued. Yet without these direct care workers, our health care system would collapse. At the Quality Institute, we know that achieving safer, more accessible, and higher-quality health care must include…Read More…
Mental Health First Aid: Stepping into the Work
In our personal and professional lives, we often prepare ourselves for emergencies: fire drills, CPR certifications, and stocking first aid kits. We’re trained to respond quickly when someone is physically injured or in danger. But how prepared are we to respond when someone is experiencing a mental health crisis? This week, I had the…Read More…
How Quality Institute Members Shape Policy and Will Inform New Jersey’s Next Governor
With New Jersey’s gubernatorial primaries next week, the Quality Institute, supported by our members, is finalizing a report that identifies the greatest health care challenges we face and identifies actionable solutions. We will share the report with our members and the candidates soon. We regularly count on the expertise and perspective of our members —…Read More…
QUALITY INSTITUTE NAMED ‘HEALTH CARE HERO’ FOR DEVELOPING PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING
For Immediate Release Contact: Carol Ann Campbell cacampbell@njhcqi.org (973-567-1901) June 4, 2025 TRENTON, New Jersey — The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute has been named a 2025 NJBIZ Health Care Hero for its leadership in creating the nation’s first perinatal focused Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) trainings. The Quality Institute is offering the Perinatal MHFA…Read More…
Take Five Interview with George Helmy
George Helmy, Executive Vice President, Chief External Affairs and Policy Officer of RWJBarnabas Health, a member of the Quality Institute’s Leadership Council. You worked as State Director to U.S. Senator Cory Booker, and were appointed by Governor Phil Murphy to briefly fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Senator Bob Menendez. What lessons did you learn…Read More…
Quality Institute New Board Chair and Officers Announced
I am pleased to share that at our board meeting this week, John Leyman, an active Quality Institute partner for over a decade, was elected Board Chair. John has been instrumental in our work — from Medicaid 2.0 to the Quality Institute/Vitale Health Care Reform Work Group and to our reform initiatives around the small…Read More…
Strategies to Drive Mission in Challenging Times
Recently I was asked to speak to a gathering of nonprofit leaders and address, Sustainability Planning in the Current Climate. The thoughts I shared have applicability, beyond the nonprofit world, to those working in health care or related fields during this time of tremendous upheaval and uncertainty. For the last decade, much thought, training, and…Read More…
Take Five with Michael Schmidt, LCSW, M.A.
Michael Schmidt, LCSW, M.A., Executive Director/CEO of The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, a generous funder of the Quality Institute’s work on Perinatal Mental Health. What brought you to The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey? I have always been drawn to mission-driven organizations. I began my career working with older adults, then managed a homeless…Read More…