Conversation of Your Life (COYL)
Changing the Culture Around End-of-Life Care
I hope you all can join us June 12 for our Conversation of Your Life (“COYL”) Breakfast, which will highlight the innovative efforts taking place in New Jersey communities to change the culture around end-of-life care discussions. Leaders in our COYL program will talk about the truly interesting ways they are facilitating these conversations. Here…Read More…
Nurse Volunteers Advance Community Wellness
Published in NJ.com Adelisa Perez, BSN, RN, does not stop being a nurse when she leaves Riverview Medical Center, the Red Bank hospital where she works with heart patients. Perez believes the nursing profession also calls her to promote wellness in the communities around her. “Nurses can bring a unique aspect to wellness initiatives. We…Read More…
Seeing What’s Possible in Health Care — Up Close
In my job, I don’t just get to envision the possible in health care. I get to see the possible in action. As we look at how to improve health and health care in the Garden State, you, our members, often provide creative and powerful examples. A favorite part of my job is the bird’s…Read More…
Our Ambitious Plans for 2018
We’re moving into 2018 with uncertainty on the federal level, new leadership on the state level, and our own ambitious plans to make health care work better for the people of New Jersey. There is no time to waste. I’m sharing with you an outline of our 2018 goals to make real impact, as we…Read More…
New Jersey Funds Project to Improve End-Of-Life Care
Published by Lilo H. Stainton on NJ Spotlight. Despite widespread wishes to die at home, research shows Garden State residents are more likely than many Americans to spend parts of their final months in the hospital, receiving costly and questionably necessary treatments that do little to improve their quality of life. To help shift this…Read More…
“My Father Was Robbed of a ‘Good Death'”
Lynn McVey of New Jersey Innovation Institute, a member of NJHCQI’s Leadership Council, explains the importance of keeping the patient involved in making life-altering decisions and how this topic has affected her personally. Read more about Lynn’s story here.Read More…
My father was robbed of a ‘good death’ | Opinion
Published on NJ.com by Lynn McVey. My father, John Rhatigan, lived 92 years. The 6-foot-four Irishman and devout Catholic could spin a yarn and leave any audience mesmerized. He served in the Marines during World War II, worked at NY Telephone Company for 39 years, married, bought and paid off a modest suburban house in…Read More…
Take Five with Keagen Brown, MBA, CPHIMS, Vice President of Operations at VITAS Healthcare
Recently you were a featured speaker at the Innovation Showcase hosted by New Jersey Innovation Institute and the Quality Institute, where you spoke on ‘Webside Manner.’ Tell us why you have been so dedicated to making medical technology more patient friendly? Personally, I have always been involved in hospice. I have seen the impact of…Read More…
Most adults have not completed a living will, Penn study finds
First published on newsworks.org by Elana Gordon. About one third of adults in the U.S. have filled out some kind of advanced directive, according to new research out of The University of Pennsylvania. Health leaders, meanwhile, say that’s a low percentage that can adversely affect people’s quality of life in their final days and months. An advanced…Read More…
Help Us Expand ‘Conversation of Your Life’ And You’ll Improve Life — and Death — in New Jersey
Do you know anyone who wants to die in a hospital ICU, perhaps intubated and on dialysis, surrounded by strangers? I don’t. Most New Jerseyans want to die at home surrounded by the people they love. They want comfort and compassion. They don’t want interventions that have little value to patients with advanced illness. Yet…Read More…