Rutgers Center for State Health Policy

CSHP Director Joel Cantor was quoted in a recent NJ.com piece highlighting the role that #mergers and #consolidation in the #healthcare industry, particularly #hospitals joining health systems, play in raising prices for patients and increasing their share of #medicaldebt: https://lnkd.in/eVjQyRwB?

It’s #FindingsFriday and today we’re spotlighting a new journal article featuring colleagues from the Camden Coalition. They revisit the Coalition’s signature #caremanagement intervention using secondary analyses and identify ways to address the challenges of rigorous #programevaluation faced by community-based organizations (CBOs): https://lnkd.in/eKXbzkYM?

We appreciate this opportunity from our colleagues at the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute (NJHCQI) to reflect on the Center's impact and the role that our founding Director, Joel Cantor, has played in shaping our work over the last 25 years.

This week’s #TBT for #CSHP25 highlights one of CSHP’s signature research areas - access to #healthcare and #healthinsurance coverage. The Center has worked with partners in #NewJersey state government to identify and remedy gaps in access and coverage for different populations across the state: https://lnkd.in/ef7HgsZT

Today’s bit of #WednesdayWisdom comes from Sharon Smith Kemper, LCSW, LCADC, program manager of Middlesex County Acute Psychiatric Services at RUTGERS-UNIVERSITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE. She oversees Middlesex County’s ARRIVE Together program, a Rutgers Health-led initiative to pair crisis specialists with #lawenforcement when responding to suspected #behavioralhealth incidents: https://lnkd.in/eQa2N5ty

#ICYMI: In September, the RWJF announced the finalists for the 2024 Culture of Health Prize, which honors the work of communities at the forefront of addressing #structuralracism and other #injustices to advance #health. Among this year’s awardees is #NewJersey’s capital, Trenton: https://lnkd.in/eGD4KMRE

The #NewJersey legislature is advancing a bill that would allow employees to take #familyleave to grieve the death of a child, a miscarriage, a stillbirth or medically necessary termination of a #pregnancy. If passed, the law will legally recognize the physical and emotional toll of such losses and protect the right to grieve: https://lnkd.in/eV5ueTGu

Dr. Ann Nguyen, assistant research professor at Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, published research identifying the structures and processes that a primary care clinic should prioritize to ensure high-quality chronic disease management, screening and prevention. Authors include Stephanie Albert, Lorraine Kwok, Donna Shelley, Maggie Paul, Saul Blecker, Daphna Harel, Chuck Cleland, Bryan Weiner, Deborah Cohen, Laura Damschroder & Carolyn Berry. ?? https://lnkd.in/eBQJtJit

This week, we’re sharing a #FindingsFriday insight from a new study co-authored by CSHP and Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research Assistant Research Professor Mandi Spishak-Thomas, PhD, MSW, LCSW. She and colleagues evaluated out-of-pocket costs related to #perinatalcare for #Medicaid enrollees and compare them with #birthingpeople enrolled in commercial #healthinsurance plans: https://lnkd.in/eyg4UrmS

Today’s #TBT for #CSHP25 takes us back to 2019 and a statewide poll conducted by Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. You may recall that, a little over a week ago, we set our clocks back for Daylight Savings. In this poll, #NewJersey residents shared their #sleepinghabits and identified key challenges to having a restful night sleep in the #GardenState: https://lnkd.in/eapzQuMz