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AT ISSUE: Is our health in a recession?
Published in the Asbury Park Press The death rate in the U.S. increased for the first time in a decade, according to a preliminary report from the National Center for Health Statistics released last month. Is it just a blip or an indication that the nation’s health may be slipping? We posed that question and…Read More…
In NJ, Hospital Data Transparency Reaches High Levels, But Not High Enough Yet
People come to hospitals for care at their most vulnerable moments. They literally put their lives in the hands of health care institutions — the emergency department physicians or the ICU nurses or the operating room surgeons. For years patients made decisions about where to seek treatment without any real information about whether one hospital…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…
Assessing Value in Healthcare: The Quest of the Health Care Quality Institute
Published in New Jersey Business Magazine May 11, 2015 The cost of health insurance continues to be the biggest issue facing New Jersey employers. Businesses remain committed to providing health benefits to their employees, but rising costs seem to make it harder to do every year. For Linda Schwimmer of the Health Care Quality Institute,…Read More…
How Safe is U.S. Maternity Care? New Report Shows Considerable Variation in Quality, Outcomes
Analysis by The Leapfrog Group and Castlight Health Details Maternity Care Trends in Early Elective Deliveries, Episiotomies and High-Risk Births WASHINGTON – February 23, 2015 – Nonprofit watchdog The Leapfrog Group today released its Maternity Care Report, an in-depth examination of hospital quality and safety for early elective deliveries, episiotomies and high-risk deliveries, with data analysis…Read More…
N.J. hospitals’ maternity care improves, but more can be done, according to Leapfrog report
Published in NJBIZ By Beth Fitzgerald New Jersey hospitals that provide maternity care are making progress implementing clinical best practices for the care of mothers and newborns, but more work needs to be done, according to the Leapfrog Group, the national nonprofit hospital safety watchdog which on Monday released its 2014 Maternity Care Report. Most…Read More…
Quality Institute VP Linda Schwimmer Appointed to Leapfrog Group Board of Directors
Washington, DC – The Leapfrog Group (Leapfrog), a national nonprofit organization advocating for improvements in patient safety and hospital transparency, has announced the election of Linda Schwimmer, vice president of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute to its Board of Directors. She will join the board effective immediately. “The Leapfrog Group has done more…Read More…