Promoting Wellness Promotes Unity
Too often I find myself frustrated and disheartened by the intolerance and hateful speech that has emerged from our current political landscape. I’m provided with relief, however, every Sunday when I meet my friend Leslie on the Delaware & Raritan Canal towpath, where dozens of people of varying ages, ethnicities, and races are brought together…Read More…
6 Smart Ways to Cut Health Care Costs
Published by Michael L. Diamond of the Asbury Park Press New Jersey (March 16, 2016) -You’re on the hook to pay for more of your health care. You are being begged when you feel lousy to call a doctor instead of visiting an emergency room. Your doctor asks if you feel depressed, even if you made…Read More…
States Can Support Claims Data Transparency Despite Supreme Court Decisions
The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a blow against the efforts by states to track health care quality and costs. States need data from all payers in their states to monitor the success of their policy reforms. That data comes from the All-Payer Claims Database, or APCD, which are large, state-run databases that collect claims…Read More…
Take Five: Joseph Masciandaro
Your organization is working to reduce disjointed care among people who need both behavioral health and physical health treatment. Recently you hosted a site visit for the public at your organization’s Behavioral Health Home. Can you tell us about it? The Good Care Collaborative organized the event to recognize the work that we do at…Read More…
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…