Is Health Care Earned? Or A Right?
I recently watched a video of Seema Verma, the current Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, outlining her vision for Medicaid. She spoke of the need to give states greater flexibility in administrating their Medicaid programs, a change that we at the Quality Institute support. She also touched on a question I…Read More…
Take Five with Tucker Woods
Tucker Woods, DO, is the Chief Medical Officer at CarePoint Health-Christ Hospital in Jersey City. Dr. Woods also provides oversight for the three CarePoint Health Emergency Departments. You oversee the emergency departments at CarePoint Health and are making a push to reduce the use of opioids in emergency care. How much of the problems linked…Read More…
Listen In: Linda Schwimmer on what’s happening in New Jersey
Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) Program Director, Andrea Caballero, dials up Linda Schwimmer, to hear about the challenges and successes of the health care marketplace in the Garden State, and to discuss CPR’s Payment Reform Scorecard 2.0 pilot initiative. Listen in here! And click here to learn more about CPR’s Scorecard 2.0!Read More…
Princeton Councilwoman Named To Murphy’s Transition Team
Published by Anthony Bellano on the Princeton Patch. PRINCETON, NJ — Princeton Councilwoman Heather Howard has been named to New Jersey Governor-Elect Phil Murphy’s transition team. Howard, a former state Commissioner of Health and Senior Services and current Princeton University lecturer, has been named to Murphy’s healthcare committee. “Health care coverage touches every New Jerseyan,”…Read More…
Gov.-elect Phil Murphy just named his transition team. Here’s the full list.
Published by Claude Brodesser-Akner on NJ.com. Gov.-elect Phil Murphy on Monday announced a transition team that shows his push to represent women and minorities and culls some experts from Gov. Chris Christie‘s administration after criticizing the governor during the campaign. “I pledged to build my administration to mirror the diversity, talent, and potential of New Jersey, and my transition will…Read More…
CMS Innovation Center Wants Your Ideas
If you believe we need new approaches to pay for and deliver health care — and you have some good ideas — Washington wants to hear from you. CMS recently put forth a Request For Information, asking for suggestions to foster a more affordable and accessible health care system that puts patients first. As the Quality…Read More…
Take Five with Niall Brennan
Niall Brennan, former Chief Data Officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, is President and Executive Director of the Health Care Cost Institute. Brennan will be the keynote speaker at the Quality Institute’s Winter All Council Conference on December 8. You have spoken about how, as CMS chief data officer, you oversaw the…Read More…
N.J.’s Hospitals Climb Safety Rankings, Leapfrog Says
By Anjalee Khemlani October 31, 2017 at 12:54 pm View the full article here! N.J.’s hospitals climb safety rankings, Leapfrog says Forty-four percent of New Jersey’s hospitals were awarded “A” grades for safety by The Leapfrog Group, a Washington, D.C-based organization, which released its much-anticipated Fall 2017 rankings Tuesday morning. As a result, New Jersey’s…Read More…
What are New Jersey’s safest hospitals? Here’s how they all fared in new national survey.
What are New Jersey’s safest hospitals? Here’s how they all fared in new national survey. Posted October 31, 2017 at 07:15 AM | Updated October 31, 2017 at 07:45 AM By Susan K. Livio | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com View the full article here! Nearly half of New Jersey’s hospitals earned an “A” in…Read More…
New Jersey’s Fall 2017 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades Are In
[Princeton, NJ] Oct. 31, 2017 – The Leapfrog Group, a Washington D.C-based organization aiming to improve health care quality for consumers, employers and purchasers, announced today the October 2017 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, assigning A, B, C, D and F letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the U.S. based on errors, accidents and infections….Read More…