Take Five with Adrian Diogo
Adrian Diogo is a new Community Health Associate at the Quality Institute, where he works on the Mayors Wellness Campaign, and the Healthy Communities Create Healthy Citizens project. You were in the first graduating class of Public Health at The College of New Jersey. What do you know about how and why that program got…Read More…
Youth Teams Will Put Poor Communities In Touch With Better Health
Originally published on www.njspotlight.com by Lilo H. Stainton. A team of 15 dedicated high school students in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, spent last summer getting paid to build their leadership skills, connect low-income families to nutritious, free food, and improve the health and welfare of their struggling South Jersey city. The project — fueled in part…Read More…
Take Five with Elena Cromeyer, MPH, Project Director of Transforming Communities Initiative-Trinity Health, Trenton Health Team
In February, Trenton City Council voted to raise the minimum legal age to purchase cigarettes and any other tobacco-related products in the City of Trenton. What role did the Trenton Health Team play in making that change happen? We received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from Trinity Health in 2016 to address population health issues….Read More…
Hanover Township wins healthy town award
Published on the Hanover Eagle HANOVER TWP. – Hanover Township has won the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute 2016 Mayors Wellness Campaign Healthy Town to Watch Award. The institute’s Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC) supports its mayors’ efforts to make their towns a Healthy Town. The “Healthy Town” designation recognizes communities in which mayors have…Read More…
Stone Harbor named ‘2016 New Jersey Healthy Town’
Published by David Benson in The Gazzette of Middle Township STONE HARBOR – The borough has been named the “2016 New Jersey Healthy Town” by the state’s Mayors Wellness Campaign, according to the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute. The Mayors Wellness Campaign was begun in 2006 in partnership with the New Jersey State League…Read More…
Stone Harbor Designated as 2016 NJ Healthy Town Winner
Published in the Cape May County Herald STONE HARBOR – The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute announced yesterday that Stone Harbor has been named the 2016 New Jersey Healthy Town by the Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC), a program of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute (NJHCQI) in partnership with the New Jersey State League of Municipalities. The…Read More…
Stone Harbor named ‘2016 N.J. Healthy Town’ by statewide program
Published by Nicole Leonard in The Press of Atlantic City Stone Harbor was named 2016 New Jersey Healthy Town by the Mayor’s Wellness Campaign for the town’s wellness and health lifestyle initiatives. Stone Harbor was recognized by the Mayor’s Wellness Campaign, a New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute program, for its wellness activities of weekly…Read More…
Mayors Wellness Campaign Names Stone Harbor as NJ Healthy Town Winner
For media requests: Carol Ann Campbell, 973-567-1901 or cacampbell@njhcqi.org Healthy Town Designations Also Awarded to Highland Park, Hanover Township and Beachwood PRINCETON, New Jersey — The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute today announced that Stone Harbor has been named the 2016 New Jersey Healthy Town by the Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC), a program of…Read More…
Bergenfield Mayor Does Zumba, Inspires Others To Exercise
Published by Cinday Capitani and Lorraine Ash in the Bergenfield Daily Voice BERGENFIELD, N.J. — The Mayor of Bergenfield took home the state wellness prize, thanks to his entry at a municipal conference that gave the town a shot at a health grant. The 2016 Mayors Wellness Campaign Wellness Grant was awarded to Bergenfield for…Read More…