Which Is The Shore’s Healthiest Town?
Published in The Asbury Park Press By Michael Diamond BEACHWOOD – Its residents have access to free yoga classes on the beach each Saturday during the summer. They can attend healthy cooking classes at their local ShopRite. And they can take self-defense classes hosted by local police officers. Sleepy Beachwood, population 11,000 give or take, is one…Read More…
Mayors Wellness Campaign Names Beachwood and Jersey City as New Jersey Healthy Towns
Belmar and Fort Lee Named New Jersey Healthy Towns to Watch PRINCETON — The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute today announced that two municipalities, Beachwood and Jersey City, are designated as this year’s New Jersey Healthy Towns by the Mayors Wellness Campaign, a program of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute in partnership…Read More…
Municipalities Recognized As New Jersey Healthy Towns
Published in Bergen Dispatch The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute today announced that two municipalities, Beachwood and Jersey City, are designated as this year’s New Jersey Healthy Towns by the Mayors Wellness Campaign, a program of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute in partnership with the New Jersey State League of Municipalities. Two other towns, Belmar…Read More…
Inject Sanity Into Health Care Record Keeping and Measurement
Perhaps you’ve heard some version of the saying: You can’t manage what you can’t measure. We need clearly defined measures to gauge the steps toward improvement and objective criteria to determine if we have achieved true progress. In health care we’ve seen how gathering measurements can advance care. Take hospital- acquired infections. By using defined…Read More…
NJ Towns: Raise Age for Tobacco Sales to 21
Today we work in smoke-free offices, eat in smoke-free restaurants, and view cigarettes as a vice of the few — not an acceptable practice of the many. Yet the days when smoking was acceptable were not so long ago. I remember when I started working in a small New Jersey law firm in 1993. Lit cigarettes…Read More…
Take Five with NRHI President
Elizabeth Mitchell, President & CEO, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, (NRHI). Can you tell us more about NRHI (pronounced EN-ree)? NRHI is a national network of 40 regional health improvement collaboratives — we call them “RHICs” for short — working in their communities, states or regions to improve health and health care. These are organizations similar…Read More…
Take Five with Quality Institute’s New Senior Director
Tyla Housman joined the Quality Institute this month as Senior Director. Can you tell us about your new position at the Quality Institute? I will be leading the QI Collaborative and directing other policy initiatives. The collaborative will continue with our learning network for the state’s certified ACOs and other community health care collaborations. I…Read More…
Using Travel As A Teaching Tool, And A Lever For Change
Published in Health Affairs Blog By Jan Nicholson Foundations seeking to drive systems change in health care have a powerful method they can use to educate health system leaders. The Nicholson Foundation has found that sponsoring out-of-state, or even out-of-country, learning trips is an especially effective way to spread knowledge and inspire new ways of thinking. The…Read More…
Moving the Affordable Care Act Forward
The Affordable Care Act is becoming less affordable. Premiums are rising and so are deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses. Costs are increasing for both employers and consumers. And last year national health expenditures jumped 5.3 percent. (In 2013 the jump was 2.9 percent.) The nation’s health care bill is not growing as fast as it did…Read More…
New Jersey Considers Physician Discipline Changes
Published in NorthJersey.com By Jean Rimbach A state review of how regulators handle allegations of sexual abuse by doctors is continuing, and more recommendations and policy changes are possible. So far, initiatives detailed by Steve C. Lee, acting director of the state Division of Consumer Affairs, have included a tough approach to discipline, improving transparency, and…Read More…