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HealthWell Foundation Opens New Cancer-Related Behavioral Health Fund
Ginny Dunn, HealthWell Foundation GERMANTOWN, Md., May 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The HealthWell Foundation®, an independent non-profit that provides a financial lifeline for inadequately insured Americans, has launched a new fund to provide copayment assistance for behavioral health treatments related to a cancer diagnosis. Through the Cancer-Related Behavioral Health Fund, HealthWell will provide up to $2,000 in financial assistance…Read More…
Nurse Volunteers Advance Community Wellness
Published in NJ.com Adelisa Perez, BSN, RN, does not stop being a nurse when she leaves Riverview Medical Center, the Red Bank hospital where she works with heart patients. Perez believes the nursing profession also calls her to promote wellness in the communities around her. “Nurses can bring a unique aspect to wellness initiatives. We…Read More…
Patient Safety: What Grade Did Your Hospital Get?
Published by Michael L. Diamond of the Asbury Park Press Monmouth Medical Center received an A grade from a hospital safety watchdog group, marking the seventh consecutive report card that the Long Branch hospital has aced. It was one of four hospitals at the Jersey Shore that received the top mark from The Leapfrog Group, a…Read More…
Leapfrog safety scores: 22 NJ hospitals get ‘A’ grades, while one flunks
Published by Vince Calio on NJBIZ. University Hospital in Newark was given an “F” grade for its safety conditions – the lowest possible grade – in The Leapfrog Group’s biannual hospital safety ratings. It is the first time in three years a New Jersey hospital has received an “F” grade. In all, 22 hospitals earned “A” grades,…Read More…
Which New Jersey hospitals are the safest? Here are the results of a new national survey.
Published by Susan K. Livio on NJ.com. Fewer hospitals in New Jersey earned an “A” for patient safety in the latest national report card released Tuesday. That drove New Jersey’s national rank down from 11th to 17th best for the strategies they used to prevent infections, falls and other harmful mistakes, according to the report. Just…Read More…
N.J. drops in Leapfrog hospital safety ranking, despite 22 ‘A’ grades
Published by Anjalee Khemlani on ROI New Jersey. New Jersey fell in national rankings of hospital safety scores, according to the biannual ranking by The Leapfrog Group. The Washington, D.C.-based organization ranks the safety of hospitals every spring and fall, and the most recent report shows New Jersey is now No. 17 among 50 states, compared…Read More…
NJ Lawmakers Look to Implement State-Level Individual Mandate
By Brenda Flanagan, Senior Correspondent NJTV News https://www.njtvonline.org/news/video/nj-lawmakers-look-implement-state-level-individual-mandate/Read More…
States Move to Offset Shift in ACA Policies
Published by Steven Porter in Healthleaders Media Maryland and New Jersey passed laws designed to help stabilize their health insurance markets. As the federal government continues to denounce the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and neutralize some of its requirements, certain states are responding with countermeasures of their own. New Jersey lawmakers sent a bill Thursday to Gov….Read More…
Obamacare: NJ Lawmakers Vote to Bring Back Health Insurance Mandate
Published by Michael L. Diamond in the Asbury Park Press Murphycare could look a lot like Obamacare. Lawmakers Thursday sent to Gov. Phil Murphy a bill that will require nearly all New Jerseyans to have health insurance or pay a penalty, in a bid to stabilize premiums for consumers in the Obamacare marketplace. They approved…Read More…
Better Data Equals Better Public Policy, Researchers Say
Published by Lilo H. Stainton in NJ Spotlight State developing interactive app that will let patients, providers, and policymakers work directly with Medicaid stats Imagine the possibilities: online maps and other tools that allow patients and policymakers to visualize how much Medicaid spends on specific medical procedures — and how these costs vary between counties,…Read More…