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Hope and despair in NJ’s beleagured city
By Helen O’Neill, AP Three bullets pierced the stained glass windows of the Sacred Heart church. One plunged into Anjanea Williams’ abdomen. Father Michael Doyle raced to the 20-year-old woman, lying on the snow in front of Frank’s Deli. The gunman fled down a nearby alley. Two days after one of America’s poorest, most violent Read More….
Bill would expand “accountable” healthcare in NJ
By Lilo Stainton, NJ Spotlight With 400-plus visits to Trenton area hospitals during 2010, Betty racked up some serious healthcare bills. She also wasn’t getting any healthier. And as a homeless drug addict with no income or insurance, the cost of her care — hundreds of thousands of dollars annually — fell largely to the Read More….
Symposium to explore healthcare reform
By John Barna, Gloucester County Times A symposium that will explore healthcare reform on a local and national level will be held at the Rutgers-Camden Campus from 3 to 6 p.m, Thursday, March 24th. “Healthcare Reform in the 21st Century: Implementation and Constitutionality” is sponsored by the Rutgers School of Law-Camden’s Health Law Society and Read More….
A Housecall to help with Doctor’s orders
By Tina Rosenburg, NY Times Opinionator Doctors are very good at telling us what to do — but we are very poor at doing it. In fact, the health problems of millions of Americans are directly related to our failure to follow doctors’ orders. Doctors tell us to take our pills, exercise, go get that Read More….
US healthcare starts spotting perpetual patients
by Danny Bradbury, The Guardian Professional, UK Using statistics and a multi-layered approach with health’s frequent fliers could help American providers avoid escalating costs. For someone so hopeful about approaches to healthcare, Jeffrey Brenner is surprisingly apocalyptic. The founder of the Camden Healthcare Coalition envisages a fire- and brimstone future, in which a dysfunctional US Read More….
The Hot Spotters
Atul Gawande, MD. The New Yorker, January 2011 If Camden, New Jersey, becomes the first American community to lower its medical costs, it will have a murder to thank. At nine-fifty on a February night in 2001, a twenty-two-year-old black man was shot while driving his Ford Taurus station wagon through a neighborhood on the Read More….
A better cure for what ails New Jersey
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board One of the most promising experiments in health care reform is taking place today in Camden. the stae’s poorest city. A young doctor named Jeffrey Brenner has organized a team that works with the most burdensome patients, who absorb a gigantic share of our health care spending. Click here to read Read More….
Focus on ‘super users’ saves lives and dollars in NJ
by Tom Moran, The Star Ledger Family doctor Jeffrey Brenner is pioneering a new way to deliver health care in Camden that we are likely to see much more of in the years ahead. He focuses on a small group of ‘”super users” who make frequent hospital visits and absorb an outsized share of medical Read More….
N.J. lawmakers advance bill on rewards for preventing, controlling illnesses among N.J. poor
By Susan K. Livio and Seth Augenstein, The Star-Ledger Declaring the health care system “hopelessly broken,” lawmakers in Trenton are advancing legislation that would provide fi nancial rewards to doctors, hospitals and insurance companies for preventing and controlling illnesses — rather than just treating them — in New Jersey’s poorest communities. In short, the effort Read More….
With patient at center, new approach in New Jersey promises better health
By Stephanie Carmel, New Jersey Star Ledger. On Jan. 1, a new law went into effect that could change the relationship you have with your primary care doctor — for the better. The signing of S-665 by Gov. Chris Christie propelled New Jersey to the forefront of a powerful new concept, the patient-centered medical home. Read More….
