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…
NJ Leaders Should Continue Work on Increasing Efficiencies and Reducing Waste in State Medicaid Program
Health care is essential to everyone in New Jersey. Today our uninsured rate (8.75%) is at a 30 year low. Proposals to decrease funding for Medicaid and political threats of eliminating subsidies for people to buy insurance are harmful to NJ’s insurance market and NJ residents. People want to go to work, enjoy their weekends,…Read More…
Help Us Expand ‘Conversation of Your Life’ And You’ll Improve Life — and Death — in New Jersey
Do you know anyone who wants to die in a hospital ICU, perhaps intubated and on dialysis, surrounded by strangers? I don’t. Most New Jerseyans want to die at home surrounded by the people they love. They want comfort and compassion. They don’t want interventions that have little value to patients with advanced illness. Yet…Read More…
Take Five with Don McDaniel
Don McDaniel, Chief Executive Officer, Continuum Health. Continuum Health is a member of the Quality Institute’s Leadership Council. What is the role of Continuum Health in today’s quickly changing health care landscape? Continuum Health has a legacy of supporting and working with physician organizations. That’s the reason we get up in the morning. Physicians should…Read More…
Most N.J. voters support Planned Parenthood, coverage for birth control
First published by Susan K. Livio on NJ.com TRENTON — The majority of New Jersey voters believe insurance should cover birth control supplies and Planned Parenthood should continue receiving Medicaid reimbursement for family planning and other women’s health services, according to a poll released by Rutgers University Wednesday. The poll lands at a pivotal time…Read More…
NEW JERSEY VOTERS SUPPORT FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING FOR LOW-INCOME WOMEN’S HEALTH, INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES
Voters largely positive about Planned Parenthood, aware of its services PRINCETON, N.J. — As officials consider changes to Medicaid funding at the state and federal levels, and as Congress weighs health insurance reform, large majorities of New Jersey registered voters want to maintain federal and state funding for women’s reproductive health services for lower-income women,…Read More…