‘Sustainability Fair of the Chathams’ returns this Saturday
THE CHATHAMS – The public is being asked to demonstrate its support for sustainability in the Chathams when the 2019 edition of the annual “Sustainability Fair of the Chathams” is held, rain or shine, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 14, hosted for the fifth year by the Chatham Borough Farmers’ Market at…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Christine Nazarenus
Christine Nazarenus is Chief Vision Officer and Co-Founder of Medical Marijuana 411, which provides online resources for medical cannabis education. You were working in a technology company and founded your first start up in 1998. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was your first client and later you developed a company focused on the character driven…Read More…
At the Quality Institute, Change and New Opportunities Ahead
As summer days give way to the renewed energy of fall, I am excited to share some changes here at the Quality Institute, as well as many new opportunities for our members and partners to work with us between now and the end of the year. First, Shereef Elnahal, M.D., M.B.A., has joined our board….Read More…
Quality Institute Statement on Rating the Raters Opinion Piece in the New England Journal of Medicine
Rating the Raters is an opinion piece just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which rates four hospital quality rating systems. The authors awarded The Leapfrog Group a C minus. At the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, a regional leader for Leapfrog, we are proud that in our state every hospital voluntarily…Read More…
Legacy Take Five Interview with Jon Dolan
This week’s newsletter includes our third Legacy Take Five interview. Throughout the year, we’ll interview some of our longstanding members who will share how their partnership with the Quality Institute helps them advance the mission we all share: improving the safety, quality, and affordability of health care for everyone. Jon Dolan is President…Read More…
Momentum to Help New Moms and Babies Must Continue
There’s long been talk about the need to improve outcomes for New Jersey mothers and their babies. Now we’re seeing that talk turn into action. In the past 20 months, new laws and initiatives have advanced to improve maternal-child health, and to address troubling racial inequities. Here are just some of the new laws: Medicaid…Read More…
NEW JERSEY MAY REFUSE TITLE X FUNDING OVER ABORTION ‘GAG RULE’
NEW JERSEY MAY REFUSE TITLE X FUNDING OVER ABORTION ‘GAG RULE’ BRENDA FLANAGAN | NJTV NEWS | AUGUST 7, 2019 ‘Gag rule’ imposed by Trump administration would bar any group that accepts Title X money from even discussing abortion with clients Healthcare providers worry about the roughly 100,000 patients in New Jersey who rely on family-planning centers…Read More…
Only half of us talk to anyone about dying, a new poll finds. We must change the culture around death.
Posted Apr 16, 2019 A New Jersey Health Matters poll with Rutgers Eagleton released Tuesday found that only about half of the state’s residents have talked to anyone about their end-of-life care preferences. New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute urges New Jerseyans to have that conversation before they, or a loved one, becomes too ill….Read More…
Take Five Interview with Joshua Rothenberg, COO of Dialyze Direct
Joshua Rothenberg is the Chief Operating Officer for Dialyze Direct, which is based in Neptune, New Jersey, and provides hemodialysis to people in nursing homes, with plans to expand to residential homes. Recently, President Donald Trump announced an executive order to transform kidney care and shift more than 80 percent of patients on kidney dialysis…Read More…