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Renewed push to raise NJ’s Medicaid reimbursement rates
LILO H. STAINTON, HEALTH CARE WRITER | FEBRUARY 7, 2024 | HEALTH CARE New report outlines how to improve the state’s primary care system After two decades of caring for Medicaid patients, Dr. Aijuan Wang, a pediatrician in Edison, has learned to get creative. She’s found extra funds to cover the cost of vaccines for kids without…Read More…
Pressure on state to streamline ‘inefficient’ licensing rules for health services
LILO H. STAINTON, HEALTH CARE WRITER | OCTOBER 31, 2023 | HEALTH CARE Providers urge revamp of process they say stigmatizes mental health, addiction diagnoses Integrity House is one of the largest nonprofit addiction treatment organizations in New Jersey. But to offer cancer screenings and other basic primary care at the same site as it provides mental…Read More…
$25K Grant Will Help Paterson Launch Mental Health Ambassador Program
By Gabriella Dragone Published October 11, 2023 at 9:44 AM PATERSON, NJ – Paterson’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in partnership with the Mayor’s Wellness Campaign, has entered into an agreement to receive a grant from the New Jersey Health Quality Institute (Quality Institute) and Walmart Inc. The grant, valued at $25,000, will support the launch of…Read More…
Maternal mental health training, a success in NJ, to go nationwide
LILO H. STAINTON, HEALTH CARE WRITER | SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 | HEALTH CARE A training module for caregivers in New Jersey is being deployed across the US Credit: (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, File)File photo Poor mental health is the leading underlying cause of pregnancy-related deaths, the federal government announced last year, with suicide attempts, drug use and other behavioral health…Read More…
Goal of ‘Team Birth’ program is to improve outcomes for women, infants
JOANNA GAGIS, SENIOR CORRESPONDENT | SEPTEMBER 19, 2023 | HEALTH CARE The program is central to first lady Tammy Murphy’s Nurture NJ initiative Health care leaders gathered at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick on Tuesday for the official launch of Team Birth, a program aimed at improving outcomes for women and infants in New Jersey….Read More…
New Jersey’s FY24 Budget Invests in Children and Families, Including Funding for Evidence-Based HealthySteps Program
Washington, D.C. – July 11, 2023 – ZERO TO THREE, the nation’s leading nonprofit working to ensure all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life, applauds New Jersey’s recently approved FY 2024 budget, which includes $500,000 in state dollars eligible for federal match—a $1 million investment—in the evidence-based HealthySteps program. As a result of this investment, the…Read More…
6-21-23 Adelisa Perez-Hudgins Interview with NJSpotlight: C-sections Decline in New Jersey
C-sections Decline in New Jersey Medical experts are applauding efforts to decrease the number of unnecessary C-sections performed in New Jersey. The state Department of Health’s latest hospital maternity care report card shows cesarean delivery rates have declined in recent years. Data shows New Jersey’s cesarean delivery rate in 2020 was 32.9%, a 1% drop…Read More…
6-24-23 Linda Schwimmer Think Tank with Steve Adubato Interview
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The racist stigma of midwifery, and how the profession’s return could help solve New Jersey’s maternal health care crisis
By Tennyson Donyéa March 8, 2023 Listen 1:52 File photo: A midwife at Sisters in Birth, a Jackson, Miss., clinic that serves pregnant women, uses a hand-held doppler probe on a patient from Yazoo City to measure the heartbeat of her fetus in 2021. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP) The policing of Black bodies in America dates back…Read More…