Take Five
Take Five with Toby Stark
Toby Stark is a Past President of the New Jersey Association of Health Underwriters (NJAHU), a consumer advocacy organization of professionals and brokers in the health insurance industry. What is the biggest challenge for a small or medium size business in purchasing health insurance? The cost is the challenge, especially for small companies of between…Read More…
Take Five with Michellene Davis, Esq.
Michellene Davis, Esq., Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, RWJBarnabas Health. Davis leads social impact and community investment across the system and talked to us about transforming the overall health of communities. Your program works to improve the health of residents beyond the hospital walls. Why did you make that a priority? As…Read More…
Take Five with James Spaulding, BSN, RN, CCRN, Sim Lab Coordinator at St. Peter’s University Hospital
We spoke recently with James Spaulding, BSN, RN, CCRN, who is the Simulation Lab Coordinator at Saint Peter’s University Hospital. Spaulding told us how the lab provides valuable, hands-on training for physicians and other health care professionals to advance quality, safety and cost containment. As the Sim Lab coordinator, can you explain the overall concept?…Read More…
Take Five with Adelisa Perez, BSN, RN-BC, Director of Quality
Adelisa Perez, a Registered Nurse, is the Quality Institute’s new Director of Quality. Can you outline the focus of your role? I will oversee all of our quality initiatives, such as our work with the Leapfrog Group, and I will work with Linda Schwimmer on the National Quality Forum. I’ll also oversee the Mayors Wellness Campaign…Read More…
Take Five with Marlene Caride, Commissioner, Department of Banking and Insurance
Marlene Caride, a former member of the New Jersey General Assembly, was named to lead the Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) in January. She took the oath of office as Commissioner in June. Recently she discussed her goals in our Take Five. What do you think are the most important steps the department can…Read More…
Take Five with Adrian Diogo
Adrian Diogo is Director of the Mayors Wellness Campaign at the Quality Institute. You work in health care policy. Why did you decide to train to become an Emergency Medical Technician and to now volunteer as an EMT? I thought that being on the front lines of health care and actually providing care would inform…Read More…
Take Five with Erine Gray
Erine Gray is the founder of Aunt Bertha, a Public Benefit Corporation. Aunt Bertha has been called the “Google of social services.” How did you come up with the idea? I’m from a small town in Western New York and my mom had Encephalitis, a rare brain disease. She became disabled when I was 17…Read More…
Take Five with Dr. Pauline Chen
Dr. Pauline Chen will be the keynote speaker of our Conversation of Your Life (COYL) Breakfast on June 12. Dr. Chen, author of Final Exam, is a powerful speaker, writer and advocate for patients at the end of life. Through your work as a transplant surgeon and experience with terminally ill patients, you came to…Read More…
Take Five with Carole Johnson, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Human Services
How is Medicaid approaching care for complex populations, particularly children? I’m really proud of the number of important investments that we’re making to modernize Medicaid in the governor’s budget. That includes investing $17 million in new state and federal funds that are going to help us expand autism spectrum disorder benefits for children. There are…Read More…
Take Five with CPR’s Suzanne Delbanco
Suzanne Delbanco is Executive Director of Catalyst for Payment Reform, a non-profit corporation working to catalyze employers, public purchasers, and others to implement strategies that produce higher value health care. Delbanco will be the keynote speaker of the Quality Institute’s All Council Conference: Power of the Purchaser, on May 16. For large employers that self-fund…Read More…