New Jersey Healthcare Quality Institute Recognizes Bayonne Medical Center During Quarterly Quality Breakfast
Published on TAP into Bayonne Online BAYONNE, NJ – Bayonne Medical Center was recognized by the New Jersey Healthcare Quality Institute (NJHCQI) during their Quarterly Quality Breakfast on Tuesday. The NJHCQI’s quarterly breakfast included an interactive forum and touched on multiple topics including the 2018 performance metrics for The Leapfrog Group’s Top Hospital Ratings, as well as…Read More…
Take Five with Shantanu Agrawal, MD
Shantanu Agrawal, MD, is President and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF). Dr. Agrawal, a board-certified emergency medicine physician, is the former director for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Center for Program Integrity. He spoke with us about how NQF is advancing quality and patient safety. The National Quality Forum brings…Read More…
Share Your Real-World Case Studies of Improving Quality
I urge anyone committed to improving health care quality to read this case study from Texas Children’s Hospital’s Pavilion for Women, which outlines how the organization reduced the use of episiotomies by more than 60 percent in five years. Today, these surgical incisions — which increase complications and maternal deaths — are used in just 3.4…Read More…
Take Five with Timothy P. Lydon, J.S.C.
The Honorable Timothy P. Lydon, J.S.C., works in the Mercer County Courthouse as the drug court judge. He presides over a program that works to address substance abuse as a medical issue, rather than as a crime. Learn more about his work, which is featured in this video by the Financial Times. How long…Read More…
Driving Payment Reform — A Roadmap for 2019
At the Quality Institute, we begin 2019 with a baseline for where we are on payment reform in New Jersey — and a greater understanding of the challenges ahead. As the lead New Jersey partner of Catalyst for Payment Reform’s (CPR) Scorecard 2.0, we worked with CPR as they assessed payment reform activity in New…Read More…
It’s Time to Revamp Prior Authorizations
Earlier this year, we invited primary care physicians, including pediatricians, to join us for dinner and discussion. We wanted to know why New Jersey physicians have low participation rates in both Medicaid and Medicare. We expected to hear a great deal about low reimbursement rates. Instead, we heard about the daily frustrations of physicians. They…Read More…
Take Five with Mayor Gayle Brill Mittler, Mayor of Highland Park
Mayor Gayle Brill Mittler, Mayor of Highland Park, explains how she’s creating a culture of health in her community. The Quality Institute’s Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC) designated Highland Park a “Healthy Town” last year for activities such as free yoga sessions with the mayor; a walking school bus; and downtown outdoor “living rooms.” How…Read More…
14 children have died. We need some answers | Editorial
Star-ledger Editorial, published by NJ.com. In a committee room in Trenton today, a group of lawmakers, hospital administrators, infection experts, and the commissioner of the Department of Health will try to untangle the mystery that took the lives of 14 medically-fragile children and infected dozens more in two long-term facilities over the last few months….Read More…