Take Five
Take Five with Charlene Holzbaur
Charlene Holzbaur, who recently stepped down as Director of the Office of Management and Budget for New Jersey, has joined the Quality Institute’s Board of Directors. You were the treasury department’s budget director for 16 years, making you the state’s longest-serving budget director, apparently going as far back as 1865. As someone with deep experience…Read More…
Take Five with Matt D’Oria, Chief Transformation Officer leading the Quality Institute’s Medicaid 2.0 Initiative
Medicaid 2.0 is nearly three-quarters of the way through the first phase. How far along is the work of this important initiative? We are now 75% through the initial grant, which we received through generous support from The Nicholson Foundation. The Transformation Teams are about to wrap up their deliberations and will be delivering their recommendations…Read More…
Take Five with Amanda Melillo
Amanda Melillo, Chief of Staff of the Quality Institute, leads the Quality Institute’s Leapfrog programming. She talked with Take Five about recent changes in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. After the spring Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades came out this year we saw a real shake-up in scoring. One-third of New Jersey hospitals dropped a grade…Read More…
Take Five with Cory S. Capps, Phd.
Cory S. Capps, Phd., an economist at Bates White Economic Consulting and published expert on the implications of health care consolidation, will be the keynote speaker at the Quality Institute’s Winter Conference on November 2nd. He spoke to Symptoms & Cures in advance of his talk. You have studied health care mergers for many years…Read More…
Take Five with Megan Sheppard
The Quality Institute partners with the Cumberland County Department of Health and Inspira Health Network through a three-year partnership grant from the United Health Foundation to improve chronic disease management, health literacy, and access to healthy lifestyle initiatives. Inspira Health Network is a Provider Council member of the Quality Institute. Current Cumberland County Mayors involved…Read More…
Take Five with Calvin H. Knowlton
Calvin Knowlton, BScPharm, MDiv, PhD, is the Founder and CEO of Tabula Rasa HealthCare, based in Moorestown. At Tabula Rasa HealthCare, you focus on ways to use technology to improve health care, particularly in the area of medication risk mitigation. How big a problem is this? The elephant in the room in pharmacy is adverse…Read More…
Take Five with Terrill Jordan
Terrill Jordan is President and CEO of Regional Cancer Care Associates (RCCA). He spoke to Symptoms & Cures about RCCA’s move toward value-based care in the field of cancer treatment. We know CMS is trying to prepare physicians for far-reaching changes in the way the government will pay for medical care. You are participating in…Read More…
Take Five with Jack Sullivan
Jack Sullivan, Health Benefits Manager of the Northeast Carpenters Funds, sat down for a Take Five with Symptoms & Cures. Jack is the Quality Institute’s newest board member. You have been managing the health benefits of the Carpenters Funds for more than two decades and have a unique perspective into long-term trends in health care…Read More…
Take Five with Mary Ann Christopher
Mary Ann Christopher is Chief of Clinical Operations and Transformation at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. She joined us for a Take Five. How do you describe Value-Based Care? The tenets of Value-Based Care create the underpinnings of the Triple Aim. We heard the call by the Institute for Healthcare (IHI) Improvement…Read More…
Take Five with Cathleen Bennett
Cathleen D. Bennett recently was sworn in as the 20th Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health after serving as acting commissioner. She joined us for a Take Five. One of your top priorities after becoming Acting Commissioner in August 2015 was to create an Office of Population Health. How does this new office…Read More…