What are the Shore’s healthiest towns?
Published by Elise Schoening in the Asbury Park Press In the seaside town of Bay Head, local residents flock to the beaches each morning for community yoga. Or residents might be found at a canoe race, a cooking class or a low-cost fitness instruction. It’s all part of how Bay Head strives to be a healthy town, as part…Read More…
NJ Innovation Institute and New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Create Partnership to Transform Provider Practices
Published on New Jersey Business Magazine The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), an NJIT corporation that applies the intellectual and technological resources of the state’s science and technology university to challenges identified by industry partners and the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, have entered into a partnership to help doctors and other providers prepare…Read More…
NJ partnership aims to help providers prepare for healthcare delivery and payment changes: 4 things to know
Published by Kelly Gooch on Becker’s Healthcare The New Jersey Innovation Institute and the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute are partnering to help transform provider practices. Here are four things to know about the partnership. 1. Under the partnership, both parties will make efforts to offer New Jersey physicians and other providers with tools…Read More…
New Jersey Seniors More Active, Healthier, Better Fed Than Ever Before
But diabetes and obesity continue to increase among middle-aged Garden State residents Published by Lilo H. Stainton on NJ Spotlight Garden State elders are healthier than in the recent past, as they benefit from better nursing-home care, greater access to healthy food, and more physical activity, a nationwide study of the health of the senior…Read More…
Partnership created to transform provider practices
Published by Carol Ann Campbell on My Central Jersey PRINCETON – The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) and the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute have entered into a partnership to help doctors and other providers prepare for far-reaching changes in health care delivery and payment. The Quality Institute and NJII will work to provide New…Read More…
Take Five with Deborah Levine
Deborah Levine, MPH, recently joined the Quality Institute as a Community Health Associate. She talked to Symptoms & Cures about her new role. Tell us about your background? I received my Masters in Public Health from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health with a certificate in health policy analysis. Following my graduation, I…Read More…
Healthy Communities Create Healthy Citizens
The best medicine — and the best way to build healthy communities — is not always a drug or diagnostic test. What if doctors could write prescriptions for healthy cooking classes? Or send patients for long walks in local gardens? What if community leaders could help corner stores sell fresh fruits and vegetables? No one…Read More…
NJ Innovation Institute and New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Create Partnership to Transform Provider Practices
CONTACT: Carol Ann Campbell New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute 973-567-1901 Cacampbell@njhcqi.org NJ Innovation Institute and New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Create Partnership to Transform Provider Practices Ambitious Medicare Initiative Will Support 11,500 Clinicians Through Changes in Health Care Delivery and Payment PRINCETON, New Jersey — The…Read More…
Death Panel myth dead, but end-of-life planning needs respiration
Published on NJ.com Roughly 3 in 10 Americans still believe that the Affordable Care Act established Death Panels, or a junta of bureaucratic savages that determines whether sick people get to live. That was from the dizzy imagination of Sarah Palin, and after she squawked enough to get end-of-life planning scrubbed from the legislation –…Read More…
New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Receives $550,000 from United Health Foundation to Support “Healthy Communities Create Healthy Citizens” Project
N E W S R E L E A S E Contacts: Mary McElrath-Jones UnitedHealthcare (914) 552-4671 mary_r_mcelrath-jones@uhc.com Carol Ann Campbell New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute (973) 567-1901 cacampbell@njhcqi.org For Immediate Release New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Receives $550,000 from United…Read More…