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…
Let’s Get Real on Reducing Costs
It’s October. That means Halloween and something even scarier — insurance premium increases. This year, people in the individual market will face hikes even higher than usual thanks to the federal government’s concerted effort to undermine the marketplace. Small businesses in New Jersey also feel the fright. Plans now offered in the Small Employer market have…Read More…
Take Five with Glenn A. MacFarlane
Glenn A. MacFarlane is Chief Executive Officer of Aetna Better Health of New Jersey. You became CEO of Aetna Better Health of New Jersey just last year. The plan started in 2015 and now has 40,000 members. What makes the plan different from others? Aetna started on January 1, 2015. We initially went live in…Read More…
NJ Loses Federal Funding to Expand ACA Enrollment
NJ Loses Federal Funding to Expand ACA Enrollment Lilo H. Stainton | October 12, 2017 Some $26 million in cuts will put a serious dent in ACA navigator programs in virtually all states New Jersey will lose more than 60 percent of the federal funding it expected to receive this year to help enroll vulnerable…Read More…
New Jersey to Put Payment Reform Scorecard to the Test
New Jersey to Put Payment Reform Scorecard to the Test Mary Caffrey Despite the unrest in Washington, DC, payment reform is very much alive in markets across the country, as employers and large purchasers of healthcare look for new ways to deliver care. In fact, Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR), a group of progressive purchasers…Read More…
Take Five with Saira A. Jan
Saira A. Jan, M.S., Pharm.D, is a clinical professor at Rutgers University Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. Dr. Jan recently presented the Pharmacy School’s ‘Opioid Abuse Toolkit: Resources for New Jersey Communities’ to community and provider representatives from Jersey City, Trenton, and Cumberland County, three regions involved in the Quality Institute’s Healthy Communities create Healthy…Read More…
ACA Enrollment Needs You
Open enrollment for the ACA Marketplace begins November 1 and runs through December 15. New Jersey residents will have three carriers to choose from: Horizon BCBSNJ, AmeriHealth, and Oscar. The 2018 rates should come out any day now and will be higher than they otherwise would have been if Congress or the Administration had authorized…Read More…
The Relentless School Nurse: Blog on Aunt Bertha
One of the 5 principles of NASN’s Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice is Community/Public Health. Relentless School Nursing calls for knowing our community resources and providing helpful, accurate and effective referrals. How embarrassing is it to refer a family to a resource only to find out that it has shut down, changed their phone…Read More…
Best Care is Best Kept Secret
I recently visited my new physician, Dr. Randi Protter, at R-Health, which provides a new model of care — called Direct Primary Care — that could improve patient outcomes while also reducing costs. The state, seeking ways to reduce costs, began this model for people covered by the State Health Benefits Program (state and local government employees,…Read More…