Quality Institute Announces Mayors Wellness Campaign New Jersey “Healthy Town” Winners for 2021
For media requests: Carol Ann Campbell 973-567-1901 or cacampbell@njhcqi.org. PRINCETON, New Jersey — The Mayors Wellness Campaign has announced eight 2021 “Healthy Town” winners that are addressing food insecurity, supporting COVID-19 testing and vaccinations, and organizing programs to promote physical and mental health throughout their communities. The Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC) is a program…Read More…
Mayors Wellness Campaign 2021 ‘Champion of Health Award’ Goes To Deerfield Township Administrator
For Immediate Release Contact: Carol Ann Campbell cacampbell@njhcqi.org (973-567-1901) Mayors Wellness Campaign ‘Champion of Health Award’ Goes To Deerfield Township Administrator Quality Institute Program Recognizes People Who Work to Strengthen The Health of Their Communities PRINCETON — January 17, 2022 — The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC) has awarded the…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Christopher Koller
Christopher Koller is president of the Milbank Memorial Fund, a 117-year operating foundation that improves population health by connecting leaders with the best information and experience. Before joining the Fund, Koller was Rhode Island’s first health insurance commissioner. Koller was the keynote speaker at the Quality Institute’s recent conference on increasing investment in high quality…Read More…
Op-Ed: New Jersey must increase its Medicaid investment in primary care
LINDA SCHWIMMER | FEBRUARY 23, 2022 | OPINION, HEALTH CARE Here’s when, and by how much, the Legislature and governor should increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care Linda Schwimmer New Jersey’s Medicaid program serves 2.1 million residents in our state, including half of all our children. Yet Medicaid recipients still struggle with access to care, including primary…Read More…
Hackensack Meridian Health Launches Program to Address the Physical, Emotional and Social Needs of Children Facing Behavioral and Physical Challenges
Hackensack Meridian Health, in partnership with Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, and the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, this month began seeing patients through a transformative initiative to improve care for children through prevention, early identification, and treatment of complex behavioral and physical health challenges. The new model of care focuses on the whole…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Dana Gelb Safran, ScM and ScD
Dana Gelb Safran, ScM and ScD, is President and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF). NQF serves as the steward of the nation’s portfolio of quality measures, and, in this role, is responsible for convening and leading consensus processes to evaluate health care quality measures to determine their scientific and clinical merits for endorsement…Read More…
Recognizing 293 Garden State Leaders in Hospital Safety and Quality
We held our annual Leapfrog Quality Briefing last week. In advance of the event, we asked every hospital CEO or senior quality officer to identify their quality and safety team members so we could recognize and celebrate them. The 293 hospital professionals we honored have been working throughout the pandemic, have modified protocols as needed,…Read More…
Alternative Payment Model Launching to Support Children and Families
By Kate Shamszad, MS, MPH, Director of the Quality Institute’s Medicaid Policy Center (MPC) At the Quality Institute, we support alternative payment models that move away from fee-for-service and toward better coordinated care that pays for better quality and outcomes. Most of the existing alternative payment models focus on chronic conditions or a specific…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Steven Kairys, MD
Steven Kairys, MD, is Principal Investigator of New Jersey Integrated Care for Kids (InCK), a new pilot program in Ocean and Monmouth Counties, and a pediatrician at Hackensack Meridian Health, a member of the Quality Institute. The NJ InCK pilot is led by Hackensack Meridian Health with the Quality Institute and VNA Health Group as co-leads. …Read More…