Take Five with Virginia Tesser
Virginia Tesser has joined the Quality Institute as Membership Coordinator Can you describe your new role at the Quality Institute? I support Tyla Housman, the Vice President of External Affairs, to develop and engage our membership. That means reaching out to potential new members and strengthening our engagement with existing members. I also will…Read More…
A Toolkit You Can Use to Advance Population Health
If you saw the advertisement on late night TV, you would not believe the claims. Improve your cardio vascular system! Alleviate depression! Improve your skin! Lose weight! Strengthen your bones! I’m talking about exercise — with benefits that are wide-ranging and scientifically proven. If exercise were a pill, it would be a blockbuster. But while we…Read More…
At NJIT, doctors learn how tech can help patient outcomes
Published by Michael Hill on NJTV News. Shoe supports with sensors to help Type 2 diabetics avoid potential amputation and hands-free shoes were featured at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s fourth annual Innovation Showcase. “My son had a medical condition. He was in a scoliosis brace for years and it prevented him from being able…Read More…
What are New Jersey’s safest hospitals? Here’s how they all fared in a national survey.
Published by Susan K. Livio on NJ.com. Nearly half of New Jersey’s hospitals earned an “A” in an October 2017 national safety report measuring how effective nurses, doctors and other medical staff are in preventing infections, falls and mistakes than often make patients sicker than they arrived. New Jersey ranks 11th best in the nation…Read More…
Time for New Jersey To Save Its Health Insurance Markets
In the committee rooms of the State House, New Jersey recently started saving its health insurance markets. Since 1994, New Jersey has required insurers to cover essential benefits and to be open to all, despite health status. The ACA took our model, added the individual mandate, and provided subsidies to help low-income people afford premiums….Read More…
Take Five with Kevin Kelleher
Kevin Kelleher, Director of Research and Economic Services at New Jersey Education Association, the union representing New Jersey’s professional educators. As a member of the School Employee Health Benefits Design Committee, can you tell us how you tried to make the health care benefits program more effective and efficient? The charge of the committee is…Read More…
Plan would make medicaid ‘encounter’ data more widely available
Published by Lilo H. Stainton on NJ Spotlight. ‘De-identified’ healthcare data makes it possible to track treatment, providers, fees without identifying personal details New Jersey citizens and policymakers would be able to access “de-identified” healthcare data related to nearly two million residents under a new proposal designed to help improve decision making about personal care…Read More…
People are dying after procedures in NJ surgery centers and it’s not always made public
Published by Lindy Washburn on NorthJersey.com Patients expect the safety of a hospital. But the centers differ in resources and oversight. And that can be the difference between life and death. They are called “same-day surgery centers,’’ leading patients to expect a quick in-and-out for a routine procedure. But the experience was anything but routine for…Read More…
Seeing What’s Possible in Health Care — Up Close
In my job, I don’t just get to envision the possible in health care. I get to see the possible in action. As we look at how to improve health and health care in the Garden State, you, our members, often provide creative and powerful examples. A favorite part of my job is the bird’s…Read More…
Take Five with Stacey Flanagan
Stacey Flanagan, Director of the Jersey City Department of Health & Human Services, will be a panelist at the Quality Institute’s Breakfast on Population Health on February 27. Jersey City is one of three New Jersey communities working with the Healthy Communities create Healthy Citizens (HCHC) initiative, funded by the United Health Foundation and the…Read More…