Maternity
Report finds NJ hospitals are performing too many c-sections.
Published by Leah Mishkin of NJTVnews A new Leapfrog report shows New Jersey hospitals are performing too many C-sections. The state is in the bottom five in the country in terms of meeting recommended standards. “For pregnant women, it’s hard because we want to listen to our health care providers and trust them, but we also need…Read More…
NJ hospitals target state’s abnormally high C-section rate
Published by Michael L. Diamond in the Asbury Park Press. New Jersey hospitals will try to reduce their high C-section rates by 10 percent during the next year in part by educating nurses and adding non-medical childbirth experts known as doulas, health officials said Monday. The project is designed to prevent unnecessary cesarean sections, which expose women to…Read More…
N.J. Hospitals Do Too Many C-Sections, and the Numbers are Climbing
Posted in NJ.com, Written by Times of Trenton Editorial Board The rates for Caesarian-section births vary widely by hospital in New Jersey, but health-care advocates and childbirth experts agree on one thing: Those rates are too high – and getting higher. The Garden State joined Florida, Kentucky, New York and Texas as the top five…Read More…
New Jersey Hospitals Fall Short in Maternity Care, Report Shows
Published by Nicole Leonard, Press of Atlantic City Only a few New Jersey hospitals are fully meeting maternity and childbirth health-care goals, according to a new national report. The 2018 Maternity Care Report released Tuesday by the Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit patient advocacy group, revealed while a handful of state hospitals excel at reducing…Read More…
N.J. hospitals still perform too many of these risky procedures
Published by Susan K. Livio on NJ.com. New Jersey hospitals’ longstanding problem of unnecessarily delivering babies by Cesarian-section got worse last year, a practice that puts mothers and their infants at a greater risk of complications, according to a new report released Tuesday. New Jersey, Florida, Kentucky, New York and Texas recorded the highest number of…Read More…
New Jersey C-Section Rate is Still High. See How Your Hospital Compares.
Published by Linda Washburn, northjersey.com New Jersey hospitals performed worse — not better — in lowering the rate of Cesarean deliveries for newborns in the most recent report on the quality of maternity care, released Tuesday. Only nine of 48 hospitals where babies are delivered brought the rate of such surgery down to the national goal level, said the…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…
In Maternal Health, Simple Change is Powerful
A glamorous Serena Williams landed on the cover of the February issue of Vogue, holding her newborn daughter and wearing a fire engine red gown. Inside the issue, along with the story of her celebrity friendships and tennis ambitions, Williams described the six horrifying days that followed the birth of her child. The day after…Read More…
How New Jersey Is Working to Lower C-Section Rates
Published on AJMC. Linda Schwimmer, president and CEO of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, discussed the impact of data on lowering the state’s C-section rates, which are among the highest in the country. High C-section rates have been a problem in New Jersey. How are hospitals and physicians using payment reform to address…Read More…
To Reduce Costs and Improve Health Care, Start at the Beginning — and the End.
At our Spring All Council Conference Tuesday, Dr. Neel Shah recalled hospital higher ups chastising young physicians over some medical procedure or intervention they failed to perform. “But you never saw anyone get called on the carpet for doing a procedure they should not have done,” he said. Dr. Shah, our keynote speaker, knows we…Read More…