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Legacy Take Five Interviews Highlight Health Leaders’ Vision for Tomorrow’s Health System
Our Take Five interviews share insight from health care leaders making a difference in the state and the nation. Take Five is one of the most popular features of our newsletter and explores topics critical to our mission to improve the safety, quality, and affordability of health care for everyone. Recently we’ve run what…Read More…
Legacy Take Five Interview with Kevin Conlin
Kevin Conlin, President & Chief Executive Officer of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has been a member of the Quality Institute for almost 20 years and is one of our earliest members. Can you tell us why the organization values its membership? Improving…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Donald Parker, MSW
Donald Parker, MSW, President and CEO of Carrier Clinic. Parker addressed the need for more mental health services in New Jersey and other issues in the field in this newsletter’s Take Five interview. What drew you to lead an organization that specializes in psychiatric and addiction medicine? My academic background has been in social…Read More…
Quality Institute Outlines Five Key Principles For Price Transparency to Succeed
Only in health care do Americans routinely purchase services and then learn about the price weeks or months later. For too many Americans, opening a medical bill is a moment of trepidation. At the Quality Institute, we’ve supported transparency from our earliest days — in quality and in cost. So we support the parts…Read More…
Legacy Take Five Interview with Alfred F. Tallia, MD, MPH
Alfred Tallia with Quality Institute Board Member. Alfred F. Tallia, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University. You recently were named Chair of the National Board of Medical Examiners. What critical differences do you see between your medical school…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Jim Towey
Jim Towey, Founder of Aging With Dignity and President of Ave Maria University in Florida, will deliver the keynote address at the Conversation of Your Life (COYL) Quality Breakfast on June 13 (open to Quality Institute and COYL Task Force members only, including Mayors participating in COYL). Towey also is co-author of the Five Wishes…Read More…
Tackling Racial Bias in Health Care
We titled our Spring All Council Conference last week, “Racial Bias in Health Care: A Diagnosis and Treatment Plan.” Our audience — indeed, all of us in the room — did not always find the topic easy. No one who went into health care to help others wants to learn that their own biases could…Read More…
Diagnosing and Treating Racial Bias in Health Care
Originally Published on NJBiz.com Disparities in health care based on racial bias is a problem and striving toward equity remains a challenge. Dr. Tiffani Johnson. – ANTHONY VECCHIONE That was the theme of New Jersey native Dr. Tiffani Johnson’s keynote address at the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute’s Annual Meeting & Spring All Council Conference…Read More…