Mayors Wellness Campaign
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…
The Relentless School Nurse: Blog on Aunt Bertha
One of the 5 principles of NASN’s Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice is Community/Public Health. Relentless School Nursing calls for knowing our community resources and providing helpful, accurate and effective referrals. How embarrassing is it to refer a family to a resource only to find out that it has shut down, changed their phone…Read More…
Crowds Turn Out For Beachwood Community Day
Published by Chris Lundy on Jersey Shore Online. BEACHWOOD – The weather was perfect as scores of people recently celebrated Beachwood Community Day at Birch and Surf Park. The event was bigger than last year, which was the first ever event. There were more tents set up, where vendors sold items like dog treats and…Read More…
Grant money kicks off ‘Live Healthy Cumberland County’
Published on NJ.com. BRIDGETON — Community leaders and public officials kicked off “Live Healthy Cumberland County” with support from the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute (NJHCQI) and a $550,000 partnership grant from United Health Foundation. The effort aims to reduce chronic disease by increasing the number of healthy food items available at 27 local corner…Read More…
Take Five with Adrian Diogo
Adrian Diogo is a new Community Health Associate at the Quality Institute, where he works on the Mayors Wellness Campaign, and the Healthy Communities Create Healthy Citizens project. You were in the first graduating class of Public Health at The College of New Jersey. What do you know about how and why that program got…Read More…
Youth Teams Will Put Poor Communities In Touch With Better Health
Originally published on www.njspotlight.com by Lilo H. Stainton. A team of 15 dedicated high school students in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, spent last summer getting paid to build their leadership skills, connect low-income families to nutritious, free food, and improve the health and welfare of their struggling South Jersey city. The project — fueled in part…Read More…
Take Five with Elena Cromeyer, MPH, Project Director of Transforming Communities Initiative-Trinity Health, Trenton Health Team
In February, Trenton City Council voted to raise the minimum legal age to purchase cigarettes and any other tobacco-related products in the City of Trenton. What role did the Trenton Health Team play in making that change happen? We received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from Trinity Health in 2016 to address population health issues….Read More…
Hanover Township wins healthy town award
Published on the Hanover Eagle HANOVER TWP. – Hanover Township has won the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute 2016 Mayors Wellness Campaign Healthy Town to Watch Award. The institute’s Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC) supports its mayors’ efforts to make their towns a Healthy Town. The “Healthy Town” designation recognizes communities in which mayors have…Read More…
Stone Harbor named ‘2016 New Jersey Healthy Town’
Published by David Benson in The Gazzette of Middle Township STONE HARBOR – The borough has been named the “2016 New Jersey Healthy Town” by the state’s Mayors Wellness Campaign, according to the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute. The Mayors Wellness Campaign was begun in 2006 in partnership with the New Jersey State League…Read More…
Stone Harbor Designated as 2016 NJ Healthy Town Winner
Published in the Cape May County Herald STONE HARBOR – The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute announced yesterday that Stone Harbor has been named the 2016 New Jersey Healthy Town by the Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC), a program of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute (NJHCQI) in partnership with the New Jersey State League of Municipalities. The…Read More…