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Pressure on state to streamline ‘inefficient’ licensing rules for health services
LILO H. STAINTON, HEALTH CARE WRITER | OCTOBER 31, 2023 | HEALTH CARE Providers urge revamp of process they say stigmatizes mental health, addiction diagnoses Integrity House is one of the largest nonprofit addiction treatment organizations in New Jersey. But to offer cancer screenings and other basic primary care at the same site as it provides mental…Read More…
$25K Grant Will Help Paterson Launch Mental Health Ambassador Program
By Gabriella Dragone Published October 11, 2023 at 9:44 AM PATERSON, NJ – Paterson’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in partnership with the Mayor’s Wellness Campaign, has entered into an agreement to receive a grant from the New Jersey Health Quality Institute (Quality Institute) and Walmart Inc. The grant, valued at $25,000, will support the launch of…Read More…
Quality Institute’s Mayors Wellness Campaign Awards $127,500 To 10 New Jersey Towns Funded By Walmart, Grants Support Mental Health Programs, Education
PRINCETON, New Jersey — The Quality Institute’s Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC) has awarded a total of $127,500 in grants to 10 New Jersey communities to support local initiatives supporting community mental health. The grants are in partnership with the League of Municipalities and funded by Walmart. The Quality Institute recognizes the need for mental health…Read More…
Maternal mental health training, a success in NJ, to go nationwide
LILO H. STAINTON, HEALTH CARE WRITER | SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 | HEALTH CARE A training module for caregivers in New Jersey is being deployed across the US Credit: (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, File)File photo Poor mental health is the leading underlying cause of pregnancy-related deaths, the federal government announced last year, with suicide attempts, drug use and other behavioral health…Read More…
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…
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
The Prevalence of Racial Disparities in HealthcareRead More…
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…
“Economic Doubts & Downturn?” A New Jersey Business Magazine Featuring Linda Schwimmer
We invite you to read George Saliba’s economic forecast on health care, featuring our President & CEO, Linda Schwimmer, in the latest issue of New Jersey Business Magazine. The article can alternatively be viewed directly on New Jersey Business Magazine’s website via Home Page / Virtual Issue / Page 20.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…