Health Advocates and Activists Rally in Recognition of ACA Repeal Defeat
Call on the Administration to End Actions That Destabilize the Market Trenton – Health care advocates, including provider organizations, unions, and consumer groups, stood united at the Statehouse today to applaud last week’s defeat of three GOP proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The groups called on President Trump to support the…Read More…
Take Five with Keagen Brown, MBA, CPHIMS, Vice President of Operations at VITAS Healthcare
Recently you were a featured speaker at the Innovation Showcase hosted by New Jersey Innovation Institute and the Quality Institute, where you spoke on ‘Webside Manner.’ Tell us why you have been so dedicated to making medical technology more patient friendly? Personally, I have always been involved in hospice. I have seen the impact of…Read More…
Who’s Addressing Costs As Repeal Debate Rages On?
Nobody would blame you for mistaking a “skinny repeal” for the latest low fat latte or frozen dessert. The phrase that’s entered the lexicon of health care refers to the most recent approach to replace the Affordable Care Act. The plan is less “all-out-repeal” than earlier versions, but still largely guts the ACA. Under “skinny…Read More…
Grant money kicks off ‘Live Healthy Cumberland County’
Published on NJ.com. BRIDGETON — Community leaders and public officials kicked off “Live Healthy Cumberland County” with support from the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute (NJHCQI) and a $550,000 partnership grant from United Health Foundation. The effort aims to reduce chronic disease by increasing the number of healthy food items available at 27 local corner…Read More…
Health care advocate: new GOP bill ‘even more problematic’
Published on NJTV News. Despite revisions, the nonpartisan New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute finds serious gaps in the new version of Trumpcare. Its President and CEO Linda Schwimmer talks with Chief Political Correspondent Michael Aron. Aron: Linda, is this new Senate GOP health care bill any better than the one that Mitch McConnell presented…Read More…
Will It Be “Summer of Hell” In Health Care, Too?
As I travel home from the nation’s capital on my delayed Amtrak train, I’m reminded that summer 2017 has been labeled the “summer of hell” for commuters in the Northeast Corridor. Much-needed fixes to our transportation infrastructure are causing agonizing delays, but the long-term repercussions of doing nothing will be far worse. That sounds close…Read More…
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…
How the GOP health bills could make N.J. look like Alabama
Published by Don Sapatkin on Philly.com. For New Jersey, the GOP health-care proposals in Washington could mean more than budgetary chaos and a million people going without insurance. The state could wind up with a higher share of uninsured residents than places like Alabama and Mississippi. The main reason: New Jersey long has worked to make coverage accessible…Read More…
Most adults have not completed a living will, Penn study finds
First published on newsworks.org by Elana Gordon. About one third of adults in the U.S. have filled out some kind of advanced directive, according to new research out of The University of Pennsylvania. Health leaders, meanwhile, say that’s a low percentage that can adversely affect people’s quality of life in their final days and months. An advanced…Read More…