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The Quality Institute Newsletter: A bi-weekly edition to keep you updated our latest activities

SchwimmerScript Blog: Insights from Quality Institute President and CEO Linda Schwimmer

Take Five Interview: Powerful and insightful interviews with health care leaders

The Mayors Wellness Campaign Newsletter: A quarterly update on the MWC activities

Press releases and the latest news about the Quality Institute, our members, and New Jersey health care

NJ Leaders Scramble to Protect Obamacare Gains Against Federal Threats

Published by Lilo H. Stainton on NJ Spotlight. As Trump administration’s attacks on Affordable Care Act take a toll, legislators put up ramparts to try to defend the law in Garden State The Murphy administration and Democrats in the Legislature are doing what they can to shore up and protect the federal Affordable Care Act…Read More…

Posted May 24, 2018
Categories:In the News

Take Five with Dr. Pauline Chen

Dr. Pauline Chen will be the keynote speaker of our Conversation of Your Life (COYL) Breakfast on June 12. Dr. Chen, author of Final Exam, is a powerful speaker, writer and advocate for patients at the end of life.  Through your work as a transplant surgeon and experience with terminally ill patients, you came to…Read More…

Posted May 24, 2018
Categories:Take Five

Changing the Culture Around End-of-Life Care

I hope you all can join us June 12 for our Conversation of Your Life (“COYL”) Breakfast, which will highlight the innovative efforts taking place in New Jersey communities to change the culture around end-of-life care discussions. Leaders in our COYL program will talk about the truly interesting ways they are facilitating these conversations. Here…Read More…

Posted May 24, 2018
Categories:Schwimmer Script Blog

N.J. Hospitals Do Too Many C-Sections, and the Numbers are Climbing

Posted in NJ.com, Written by Times of Trenton Editorial Board The rates for Caesarian-section births vary widely by hospital in New Jersey, but health-care advocates and childbirth experts agree on one thing: Those rates are too high – and getting higher. The Garden State joined Florida, Kentucky, New York and Texas as the top five…Read More…

Posted May 23, 2018
Categories:In the News

New Jersey Hospitals Fall Short in Maternity Care, Report Shows

Published by Nicole Leonard, Press of Atlantic City Only a few New Jersey hospitals are fully meeting maternity and childbirth health-care goals, according to a new national report. The 2018 Maternity Care Report released Tuesday by the Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit patient advocacy group, revealed while a handful of state hospitals excel at reducing…Read More…

Posted May 15, 2018
Categories:In the News

N.J. hospitals still perform too many of these risky procedures

Published by Susan K. Livio on NJ.com. New Jersey hospitals’ longstanding problem of unnecessarily delivering babies by Cesarian-section got worse last year, a practice that puts mothers and their infants at a greater risk of complications, according to a new report released Tuesday. New Jersey, Florida, Kentucky, New York and Texas recorded the highest number of…Read More…

Posted May 15, 2018
Categories:In the News

New Jersey C-Section Rate is Still High. See How Your Hospital Compares.

Published by Linda Washburn, northjersey.com New Jersey hospitals performed worse — not better — in lowering the rate of Cesarean deliveries for newborns in the most recent report on the quality of maternity care, released Tuesday. Only nine of 48 hospitals where babies are delivered brought the rate of such surgery down to the national goal level, said the…Read More…

Posted May 15, 2018
Categories:In the News

HealthWell Foundation Opens New Cancer-Related Behavioral Health Fund

Ginny Dunn, HealthWell Foundation   GERMANTOWN, Md., May 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The HealthWell Foundation®, an independent non-profit that provides a financial lifeline for inadequately insured Americans, has launched a new fund to provide copayment assistance for behavioral health treatments related to a cancer diagnosis. Through the Cancer-Related Behavioral Health Fund, HealthWell will provide up to $2,000 in financial assistance…Read More…

Posted May 11, 2018
Categories:In the News

Take Five with Carole Johnson, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Human Services

How is Medicaid approaching care for complex populations, particularly children?   I’m really proud of the number of important investments that we’re making to modernize Medicaid in the governor’s budget. That includes investing $17 million in new state and federal funds that are going to help us expand autism spectrum disorder benefits for children. There are…Read More…

Posted May 10, 2018
Categories:Take Five

Leveraging Purchasing Power To Drive Change

We’re sharing our exclusive interview here with Carole Johnson, New Jersey’s new Commissioner of Human Services, as she outlines her vision to strengthen the state’s Medicaid program for today — and tomorrow. At the Quality Institute, we often talk about the power of purchasers to drive innovation to improve quality and reduce costs. As we move…Read More…

Posted May 10, 2018
Categories:Schwimmer Script Blog
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