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New Jersey Municipalities Article Features “Healthy Communities create Healthy Citizens” Project
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What are the Shore’s healthiest towns?
Published by Elise Schoening in the Asbury Park Press In the seaside town of Bay Head, local residents flock to the beaches each morning for community yoga. Or residents might be found at a canoe race, a cooking class or a low-cost fitness instruction. It’s all part of how Bay Head strives to be a healthy town, as part…Read More…
NJ Innovation Institute and New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Create Partnership to Transform Provider Practices
Published on New Jersey Business Magazine The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), an NJIT corporation that applies the intellectual and technological resources of the state’s science and technology university to challenges identified by industry partners and the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, have entered into a partnership to help doctors and other providers prepare…Read More…
NJ partnership aims to help providers prepare for healthcare delivery and payment changes: 4 things to know
Published by Kelly Gooch on Becker’s Healthcare The New Jersey Innovation Institute and the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute are partnering to help transform provider practices. Here are four things to know about the partnership. 1. Under the partnership, both parties will make efforts to offer New Jersey physicians and other providers with tools…Read More…
New Jersey Seniors More Active, Healthier, Better Fed Than Ever Before
But diabetes and obesity continue to increase among middle-aged Garden State residents Published by Lilo H. Stainton on NJ Spotlight Garden State elders are healthier than in the recent past, as they benefit from better nursing-home care, greater access to healthy food, and more physical activity, a nationwide study of the health of the senior…Read More…
Partnership created to transform provider practices
Published by Carol Ann Campbell on My Central Jersey PRINCETON – The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) and the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute have entered into a partnership to help doctors and other providers prepare for far-reaching changes in health care delivery and payment. The Quality Institute and NJII will work to provide New…Read More…
Death Panel myth dead, but end-of-life planning needs respiration
Published on NJ.com Roughly 3 in 10 Americans still believe that the Affordable Care Act established Death Panels, or a junta of bureaucratic savages that determines whether sick people get to live. That was from the dizzy imagination of Sarah Palin, and after she squawked enough to get end-of-life planning scrubbed from the legislation –…Read More…
Alternative payment models are making a difference in health care costs, CMS official says
Published on NJBIZ Is the Affordable Care Act a success? The answer can depend on one’s political affiliation, but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is already seeing a bend in the cost curve from alternative payment models. It is important to follow the ideas being generated from CMS, which is the largest spender…Read More…
End-of-Life Care in New Jersey: Majority Has Considered and Discussed Plans, But Far Fewer Have Written Living Wills
Limited awareness of advance care planning documents, palliative care; more widespread knowledge of hospice. Published by Ashley Koning on Rutgers Today NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – In advance of National Health Care Decisions Day on April 16, more than six in 10 New Jerseyans say they are mostly comfortable with getting older and have even thought…Read More…
Most N.J. Residents Avoid End-of-Life Planning, Poll Says
Published by Susan K. Livio on NJ.com TRENTON – Nearly two-thirds of New Jersey residents say they have thought about the kind of medical treatment they want at the end of their lives and discussed their wishes with a loved one or doctor, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton poll released on Thursday. But just as many New…Read More…