Specific Goals for 2023 Build on Critical Work
We just ended our 25th anniversary celebration and are energized for the next quarter of a century. We’re moving forward with you, our members, and trusted partners to advance the priorities we all share. Today I’m outlining some specific goals for 2023 that build on our work to make health care safer and more accessible…Read More…
“Economic Doubts & Downturn?” A New Jersey Business Magazine Featuring Linda Schwimmer
We invite you to read George Saliba’s economic forecast on health care, featuring our President & CEO, Linda Schwimmer, in the latest issue of New Jersey Business Magazine. The article can alternatively be viewed directly on New Jersey Business Magazine’s website via Home Page / Virtual Issue / Page 20.Read More…
Ending 2022 with Impact and Achievements
In partnership with you, our members, we will end 2022 with significant impact and achievements. We brought together many of you to craft recommendations and policy change in the areas of primary care, including maternal infant health, small employer health insurance, and the health care workforce. Please read our reports on these issues, which…Read More…
Maternal Infant Health Hub Launched to Strengthen Midwifery Practice in New Jersey
For Immediate Release Contact: Carol Ann Campbell cacampbell@njhcqi.org (973-567-1901) PRINCETON— (December 5, 2022) — The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, in partnership with the Burke Foundation, is launching the first New Jersey-based Maternal Infant Health (MIH) Hub, an innovative policy and learning collaborative to help improve maternal/infant health and reduce racial/ethnic disparities by advancing…Read More…
Community is Key to Addressing Health Equity
I’ve been thinking about community these days, and what makes a community a good place to live. There are the essentials such as clean air and water and, also important, good schools and open space. Yet community is also about the familiar — faces, places, signs, smells, and sounds. Maybe your favorite bagel shop, pizza place,…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Andy Anderson, Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health
Andy Anderson, M.D., is the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer for Quality Institute member Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health. Where do you think you can make the biggest impact in your new role as Chief Medical and Quality Officer for RWJBH? The mission of our health system is to achieve healthier communities….Read More…
Leapfrog Announces Fall 2022 Hospital Safety Grades
PRINCETON – November 16, 2022 – The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit representing hundreds of employers and purchasers of health care — and driven in New Jersey by the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute — today announced the Fall 2022 Hospital Safety Grades. The independent grading system assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,”…Read More…