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…
Community is Key to Addressing Health Equity
I’ve been thinking about community these days, and what makes a community a good place to live. There are the essentials such as clean air and water and, also important, good schools and open space. Yet community is also about the familiar — faces, places, signs, smells, and sounds. Maybe your favorite bagel shop, pizza place,…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Andy Anderson, Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health
Andy Anderson, M.D., is the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer for Quality Institute member Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health. Where do you think you can make the biggest impact in your new role as Chief Medical and Quality Officer for RWJBH? The mission of our health system is to achieve healthier communities….Read More…
Leapfrog Announces Fall 2022 Hospital Safety Grades
PRINCETON – November 16, 2022 – The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit representing hundreds of employers and purchasers of health care — and driven in New Jersey by the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute — today announced the Fall 2022 Hospital Safety Grades. The independent grading system assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,”…Read More…
Let Pharmacists Provide Birth Control to Advance Good Health
Last year, I was in California visiting family and stopped into a CVS. Waiting in line, I noticed a sign saying you could see a pharmacist for a consultation and prescription for birth control there without a doctor’s prescription. The cost was $39. I was intrigued, then impressed, that California streamlined access to birth…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Jackie Cornell
Jackie Cornell is the new Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Action Fund of NJ and the Chief Government Relations Officer of Planned Parenthood of Northern, Central, and Southern NJ (PPNCSNJ). Tell us about your new role with the Action Fund and your overall focus at PPNCSNJ. I hold a dual role. As Chief Government…Read More…