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Legacy Take Five Interview with Alfred F. Tallia, MD, MPH
Alfred Tallia with Quality Institute Board Member. Alfred F. Tallia, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University. You recently were named Chair of the National Board of Medical Examiners. What critical differences do you see between your medical school…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Jim Towey
Jim Towey, Founder of Aging With Dignity and President of Ave Maria University in Florida, will deliver the keynote address at the Conversation of Your Life (COYL) Quality Breakfast on June 13 (open to Quality Institute and COYL Task Force members only, including Mayors participating in COYL). Towey also is co-author of the Five Wishes…Read More…
Tackling Racial Bias in Health Care
We titled our Spring All Council Conference last week, “Racial Bias in Health Care: A Diagnosis and Treatment Plan.” Our audience — indeed, all of us in the room — did not always find the topic easy. No one who went into health care to help others wants to learn that their own biases could…Read More…
Diagnosing and Treating Racial Bias in Health Care
Originally Published on NJBiz.com Disparities in health care based on racial bias is a problem and striving toward equity remains a challenge. Dr. Tiffani Johnson. – ANTHONY VECCHIONE That was the theme of New Jersey native Dr. Tiffani Johnson’s keynote address at the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute’s Annual Meeting & Spring All Council Conference…Read More…
Looking Back, and Ahead, After Twenty Years Of Health Care Transparency
It’s been twenty years since the Institute of Medicine released To Err Is Human and shined a light on the need to improve quality and safety in health care. Both the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute started twenty years ago. Both organizations take a unique multi-stakeholder approach to…Read More…
Take Five Interview With Tiffani Johnson, MD., MSc.
Tiffani Johnson, MD, MSc, is a leading researcher of racial bias in health care. Dr. Johnson is a researcher at PolicyLab, a pediatrician and assistant professor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She will be our keynote speaker at the Quality Institute’s Spring All Council Conference on May 21. The topic is Racial Bias…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Quality Institute Founder, David Knowlton
David Knowlton is President and CEO of the Cannabis Education and Research Institute (CERI). He also is Chairman of the Board of the Compassionate Care Foundation, a medicinal cannabis dispensary in Egg Harbor Township. A founder of the Quality Institute, Knowlton retired as President and CEO of the Quality Institute in 2015. Why was CERI…Read More…
NJII Innovation Showcase Explores Value-Based Care
Published in NJBiz.com New Jersey Institute of Technology President Joel Bloom welcomed visitors Thursday to hear about technological innovation and value-based health care at the fifth annual Innovation Showcase. Donald Sebastian, president of the New Jersey Innovation Institute, an NJIT corporation, explained that the evolution of the health care innovation labs connects business with academic…Read More…
Do You Have An End of Life Plan? More People Don’t Than You Think
Published in WBGO.org It’s been a little more than seven years since New Jersey’s Practitioner Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment law, or POSLT was signed by former Governor Chris Christie, empowering patients to work with their preferred medical professional to create advance directives. But still people end up in hospitals with no living will. The Governor’s…Read More…