Improving Health Care Post-Election 2020
Our virtual winter conference on Tuesday began with an inspiring slide show of our members and government partners. They’re working to save lives and caring for those who’ve contracted COVID-19. They’re also delivering food and sewing facemasks — and investing in the health and wellness of their communities. They’re advancing new protocols, vaccines, and therapies…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Robert Andrews
Rob Andrews, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 24 years, currently serves as the CEO of the Health Transformation Alliance (HTA). Andrews is a board member of the Quality Institute and will be the keynote speaker at the December 1st, Quality Institute All Council Conference, Election Results 2020 Insider Briefing: Implications on Our Health Care…Read More…
2020 Election Results Create Opportunities for Change in U.S. Health Care Policy
With our nation welcoming a new president and federal administration, we should seize the opportunity to improve our health care system. At the Quality Institute, we work closely with our members, many of them on the frontlines of medicine, and we know how federal policies affect all of our efforts to improve safety, quality, and…Read More…
Op-Ed: Pandemic must drive nursing-home transformation
FRED A. KOBYLARZ | NOVEMBER 13, 2020 | CORONAVIRUS IN NJ, OPINION COVID-19 presents an opportunity to transform nursing-home care. Residents and staff have been overlooked for too long Fred A. Kobylarz When the floodwaters receded after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, they revealed disastrous conditions and losses of life at nursing homes across the Gulf region. In the…Read More…
Trying to avoid a repeat of COVID-19 disaster in NJ nursing homes
LILO H. STAINTON, HEALTH CARE WRITER | NOVEMBER 9, 2020 | CORONAVIRUS IN NJ, HEALTH CARE Training program underway to improve infection control, keep residents and workers safe Credit: (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)File photo: March 25, 2020, a resident of St. Joseph’s Senior Home, Woodbridge is helped on to a bus after an outbreak of COVID-19 there. Health care…Read More…
How to ensure equal access in NJ to maternal health care and family planning services
The full spectrum of reproductive health — from decisions about conception through maternity care and birth — was the subject of a lively discussion among the panel of clinical and policy experts NJ Spotlight News brought together for an online roundtable last week. The event — titled Maternal Health and Family Planning in New Jersey:…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Teresa Hursey
Teresa Hursey is President of Medicaid Health Plan NJ, Amerigroup, an Anthem Company. Amerigroup is a member of the Quality Institute’s Plan Council. How is Amerigroup supporting its members during the COVID-19 pandemic? Are there particular programs or resources you want to highlight? This public health emergency has tested our local plan and…Read More…
Rutgers Project Echo Provides Critical Support for New Jersey Nursing Homes
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing home residents and the staff who care for them have been in the eye of the storm. In New Jersey, more than 4,000 of the residents have died from the virus. Nationwide, the number is more than 61,000 individuals, which is over a quarter of all COVID…Read More…
Increase and Improve Pregnancy-Related Care for All
Today I’m turning my blog over to Kate Shamszad, MS, MPH, who is a Senior Program Officer in the Quality Institute’s Medicaid Policy Center. The Medicaid Policy Center delivers independent research, analysis, and policy solutions to improve health outcomes while also controlling health care costs. New Jersey is stronger when we can all make decisions…Read More…