Leapfrog ASC Survey Opens, Allowing New Jersey’s Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) to Show Their Commitment to Patient Safety
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Murphy, lawmakers plan task force to act on recent COVID-19 report
LILO H. STAINTON, HEALTH CARE WRITER | MARCH 18, 2024 | CORONAVIRUS IN NJ, HEALTH CARE Those involved stress the goal will be action plan rather than talking points Credit: (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Building a better response to COVID-19 An independent team of lawyers and policy experts spent 15 months conducting often emotional interviews: analyzing thousands of pages…Read More…
Spring Events Provide Valuable, Actionable Information
We are honored that Acting Commissioner of Health, Kaitlan Baston, M.D., sat down with us for a Take Five to share her priorities and thoughts on the pressing health issues facing our state. I urge you all to read Dr. Baston’s Take Five below. I also want to share the upcoming events we have planned…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Kaitlan Baston, MD, MSc, DFASAM
Prior to becoming New Jersey’s Acting Health Commissioner, you created and led the Cooper Center for Healing, an integrated pain, addiction, and behavioral health center that is part of Cooper University Health Care. How will that experience inform your leadership of the Department of Health? First and foremost, the experience as a leader working…Read More…
NEW JERSEY PRIMARY CARE REPORT HAS NATIONAL IMPLICATIONS
BY CHRISTOPHER CHENEY | FEBRUARY 21, 2024 The report, which was published by the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, was authored by more than a dozen experts. KEY TAKEAWAYS New Jersey has a shortage of primary care physicians. According to the American Board of Family Medicine, New Jersey and Connecticut have the lowest concentration of…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Andrea Martinez-Mejia
Andrea Martinez-Mejia is the new executive director of the Greater Newark Health Care Coalition, one of the original Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations and now a Regional Health Hub. The Coalition has worked closely with the Quality Institute for many years. What is your vision for the future of the organization? Being the Coalition’s new Executive…Read More…
The Next Generation of Advocates
Last Friday I taught a class on health care policy to the third-year medical students at a New Jersey medical school. I started by asking the class what each of them has in common with the people pictured below and what I also have in common with these people. All eight studied medicine like the students…Read More…