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Take Five Interview with Jaffer Traish
Jaffer Traish, Chief Operating Officer of Findhelp, a social care network. Findhelp is a member of the Quality Institute. Your organization previously was called Aunt Bertha. Why don’t we start with a question of why you decided to change the name? The Aunt Bertha name served us well, and we’re still very fond of…Read More…
Leapfrog ASC Survey Opens, Allowing New Jersey’s Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) to Show Their Commitment to Patient Safety
2024 Quality Institute ASC Release Read More…
Spring Events Provide Valuable, Actionable Information
We are honored that Acting Commissioner of Health, Kaitlan Baston, M.D., sat down with us for a Take Five to share her priorities and thoughts on the pressing health issues facing our state. I urge you all to read Dr. Baston’s Take Five below. I also want to share the upcoming events we have planned…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Kaitlan Baston, MD, MSc, DFASAM
Prior to becoming New Jersey’s Acting Health Commissioner, you created and led the Cooper Center for Healing, an integrated pain, addiction, and behavioral health center that is part of Cooper University Health Care. How will that experience inform your leadership of the Department of Health? First and foremost, the experience as a leader working…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Andrea Martinez-Mejia
Andrea Martinez-Mejia is the new executive director of the Greater Newark Health Care Coalition, one of the original Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations and now a Regional Health Hub. The Coalition has worked closely with the Quality Institute for many years. What is your vision for the future of the organization? Being the Coalition’s new Executive…Read More…
The Next Generation of Advocates
Last Friday I taught a class on health care policy to the third-year medical students at a New Jersey medical school. I started by asking the class what each of them has in common with the people pictured below and what I also have in common with these people. All eight studied medicine like the students…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Erin Henderson Moore
Erin Henderson Moore is the President & CEO of Fidelis Care NJ. You have a long history working in Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs), most recently in Washington, D.C. What prompted your interest in managed care? My interest in managed care has been profoundly shaped by my professional experiences and my desire to make…Read More…
Hearing and Heeding the Call to Action on Primary Care
In my last blog post, we shared with you our new report Primary Care in New Jersey: Findings and Recommendations to Support Advanced Primary Care. The report is a blueprint for what needs to change in payments, quality measures, and other practice supports to enable team-based, comprehensive primary care to expand in our state. I…Read More…