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Goal of ‘Team Birth’ program is to improve outcomes for women, infants
JOANNA GAGIS, SENIOR CORRESPONDENT | SEPTEMBER 19, 2023 | HEALTH CARE The program is central to first lady Tammy Murphy’s Nurture NJ initiative Health care leaders gathered at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick on Tuesday for the official launch of Team Birth, a program aimed at improving outcomes for women and infants in New Jersey….Read More…
New Jersey’s FY24 Budget Invests in Children and Families, Including Funding for Evidence-Based HealthySteps Program
Washington, D.C. – July 11, 2023 – ZERO TO THREE, the nation’s leading nonprofit working to ensure all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life, applauds New Jersey’s recently approved FY 2024 budget, which includes $500,000 in state dollars eligible for federal match—a $1 million investment—in the evidence-based HealthySteps program. As a result of this investment, the…Read More…
6-21-23 Adelisa Perez-Hudgins Interview with NJSpotlight: C-sections Decline in New Jersey
C-sections Decline in New Jersey Medical experts are applauding efforts to decrease the number of unnecessary C-sections performed in New Jersey. The state Department of Health’s latest hospital maternity care report card shows cesarean delivery rates have declined in recent years. Data shows New Jersey’s cesarean delivery rate in 2020 was 32.9%, a 1% drop…Read More…
6-24-23 Linda Schwimmer Think Tank with Steve Adubato Interview
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The racist stigma of midwifery, and how the profession’s return could help solve New Jersey’s maternal health care crisis
By Tennyson Donyéa March 8, 2023 Listen 1:52 File photo: A midwife at Sisters in Birth, a Jackson, Miss., clinic that serves pregnant women, uses a hand-held doppler probe on a patient from Yazoo City to measure the heartbeat of her fetus in 2021. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP) The policing of Black bodies in America dates back…Read More…
Maternal Infant Health Hub Launched to Strengthen Midwifery Practice in New Jersey
For Immediate Release Contact: Carol Ann Campbell cacampbell@njhcqi.org (973-567-1901) PRINCETON— (December 5, 2022) — The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, in partnership with the Burke Foundation, is launching the first New Jersey-based Maternal Infant Health (MIH) Hub, an innovative policy and learning collaborative to help improve maternal/infant health and reduce racial/ethnic disparities by advancing…Read More…
Tackling the Social Determinants of Health
New Jersey Business Magazine Collaboration across the state aims to alleviate the negative impacts that environmental and social factors have on residents’ healthcare. BY JIM PYTELL, MANAGING EDITOR ON NOV 1, 2022 According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 84% of health outcomes are attributable to a combination of factors that fall under the…Read More…
Data Expert and Entrepreneur Joins Quality Institute’s Board
For Immediate Release Contact: Carol Ann Campbell cacampbell@njhcqi.org (973-567-1901) Gary Mann, Founder of Newark-based JASFEL Analytics, Brings His Expertise To Quality Institute’s Mission to Improve Health Care Quality, Safety, Access PRINCETON — October 17, 2022 — A computer scientist and entrepreneur committed to using data to improve the delivery of health care has joined the board of…Read More…
NJ’s first lady continues push on maternal, infant health initiatives
By: Matthew FazelpoorSeptember 19, 2022 12:01 am Over the last few weeks, Tammy Murphy has continued her efforts to highlight the issue of maternal and infant health, an initiative at the center of her work as the state’s first lady. Earlier this month, Murphy took part in the launch of the TeamBirth NJ initiative, which is an…Read More…