Quality and Patient Safety Collaborative
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Overview:
NJCTH provides tools, services, and information
to assist its members in providing quality health care services that are of
proven value to patients and purchasers of care. It supports and promotes
the use of scientifically sound data to inform the public and facilitate better
decisions regarding medical care and services.
The Council has established the Quality and Patient Safety Collaborative to
establish NJCTH members as the premier healthcare systems in New Jersey by
deploying
1. Patient care processes and personnel that support best practices and continuous quality improvement 2. Infrastructures that support safe, error free environments 3. And, demonstrating superior health outcomes.
The group's short-term and long-term objectives include:
1. Establish a "Cross Institutional" learning environment which focuses on the rapid deployment of best practices 2. Facilitate collaborative site visits between quality teams to share innovations and lessons learned. 3. Create a database of resources and tools that are available for all members. 4. Identify expert consultants, including physicians champions, that would be available to support other member's quality and safety teams. 5. Identify patient safety and quality curriculums that focus on educating residents, medical students, nursing students and allied health care students; work collaboratively with UMDNJ to create an innovative, interdisciplinary curriculum for use by NJCTH members. 6. Evaluate NJCTH Clinical Data Warehouse that would support cross-institutional quality projects and demonstrations projects, etc. 7. Identify demonstration projects and/or grant opportunities that support the group's mission and IOM-AHC innovation projects.
Committee Members
Christy Stephenson—Committee Chair
Chief Executive Officer
Robert Wood Johnson University at Hamilton
One Hamilto Health Place, Hamilton, NJ 08690
(609) 584-2895
[email protected]Barbara Balas
Director of Quality Management
Warren Hospital
185 Roseberry Street, Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
(908) 859-6702
[email protected]Douglas Bechard, MD, FACP, CPE
Vice President for Clinical Effectiveness
Meridian Health
1350 Campus Parkway, Neptune, NJ 07753
(732) 776-4947
[email protected]Maureen Bueno, PhD, RN
Vice President, Clinical Outcomes and Medical Affairs
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
One Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(732) 937-8538
[email protected]Maria Brennan, RN
Vice President, Patient Care Serivces
St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center
703 Main Street, Paterson, NJ 07503
(973) 754-2055
[email protected]Deborah Briggs
Senior Vice President, Health Policy and Advocacy
NJCTH
154 West State Street, Trenton, NJ 08608
(609) 656-9600 (609) 656-9611 Fax
[email protected]William Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Somerset Medical Center
110 Rehill Avenue, Somerset, New Jersey 08876
(908) 685-2816
[email protected]Lois Dornan, MSN, RN, CPHQ
Clinical Integration Analyst
Robert Wood Johnson Health Network
100 Albany Street, Suite 201, New Brunswick, NJ 07503
(732) 418-8329
[email protected]Sashi Madhok
Assistant Vice President for Quality Outcomes
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton
One Hamilton Health Place, Hamilton, NJ 08690
(609) 584-6706
[email protected]Joanne Porter, RN, BSN
Regulatory Administrative Manager
Cooper University Hospital
One Cooper Plaza, Camden, NJ 08403
(856) 342-2480
[email protected]Jack Scharf, FACHE, CRHQ
Vice President of Quality and Outcomes Management
Atlantic Health System
325 Columbia Turnpike, Florham Park, New Jersey 07932
(973) 660-3157
[email protected]Richard Weinberg, MD, CPE
Medical Director, Quality Improvement
UMDNJ - University Hospital
150 Bergen Street, Newark, NJ 07103-2406
(973) 972-6780
[email protected]
NJCTH and its members concur with the
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) that
a remarkably few proven interventions,
implemented on a wide enough scale, can
avoid 100,000 deaths over the next 15
months, and every year thereafter.
For New Jersey, this means saving more than
2,000 lives annually. By harnessing proven
methods and implementing these best
practices throughout New Jersey’s health care
system, hospitals will make great strides in
improving the quality of care delivery and
reducing patient harm.
To learn more, click here.
NJCTH members are stepping up to the
challenge and welcome all hospitals
throughout the state to join us in this initiative
to improve patient safety for New Jersey.
