Nine safety-net organizations have been chosen to participate in the $1M Innovation Catalyst Initiative. The Initiative will give the selected organizations the skills, strategies, and coaching to develop and test innovative solutions to improve care delivery for vulnerable populations.
The article describes New Jersey's Medicaid ACOs and the grassroots, multi-sectoral support that helped build these regional healthcare coalitions to meet the state's ACO certification criteria. It also discusses what is needed to sustain the coalitions.
Staff of the Urban Health Institute (also called the Cooper Advanced Care Center) presented their diabetes group visit model at a poster session of the 2015 American Diabetes Association annual meeting. This novel approach to patient visits improves access to care for medically underserved patients.
On May 31, Charles Venti, Executive Director of The Nicholson Foundation, provided commentary in response to the keynote address at a conference on China’s emerging philanthropy sector, held at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
On June 10, 2015, the New Jersey Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies presented its 2015 Circle of Collaboration Award to the Foundation. The award recognizes Nicholson’s support for efforts to improve the quality of early care and education for children throughout the State.
These new Medicaid ACOs—a key component of Nicholson’s multi-year, $10 million investment in the community healthcare coalition approach—offer a real promise for transforming payment and improving the quality of healthcare for Medicaid recipients in New Jersey.
