ALL IN: CARING FOR NEW JERSEY’S CAREGIVERS INITIATIVE LAUNCHES TO IMPROVE HEALTHCARE WORKERS’ MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Leading New Jersey Healthcare Organizations Collaborate to Make New Jersey the Best State for Our Healthcare Workforce’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Charlottesville, Va. – In recognition of Mental Health Action Day, the Medical Society of New Jersey, New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, New Jersey Hospital Association, New Jersey State Nurses Association, and Johnson & Johnson…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…
Thirty-Six Hospitals in New Jersey Earn an “A” on the Spring 2025 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Media Contact: Carol Ann Campbell www.HospitalSafetyGrade.org Thirty-Six Hospitals in New Jersey Earn an “A” on the Spring 2025 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade Five More “A” Grades than Last Round; 18 New Jersey Hospitals have Sustained “A” Grades on the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade for Five or More…Read More…
Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Grades Released: Transparency Key to Quality Health Care
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades for Spring 2025 were released this morning. The Quality Institute is the Regional Leader for Leapfrog in New Jersey and, as many of you know, I serve as the national organization’s board chair. Once again, New Jersey was number one in hospital participation for the 2024 Leapfrog Hospital Survey at…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Stefanie Simmons
Stefanie Simmons, MD, Chief Medical Officer at the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation. The Quality Institute is partnering with the Foundation on the initiative, “ALL IN: Caring for New Jersey’s Caregivers.” What is the story behind the creation of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation? Lorna was a department chair of emergency medicine, at the top…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…
Milestone for mental health care in New Jersey
Long-delayed regulations would allow medical and behavioral health services in same office Lilo H. Stainton, Health Care Writer | April 14, 2025 | Health Care After at least a decade of discussion and years drafting regulations, New Jersey is poised to revise its license requirements for outpatient treatment to allow for truly integrated outpatient care. “This is…Read More…