Presentations from the 2009 CSHP New Jersey Health Policy Conference
"More is Not Better: Improving Value in New Jersey Health Care"

Hosted by Rutgers Center for State Health Policy
with funding provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation


Thursday October 15, 2009
New Brunswick Hyatt
New Brunswick, NJ


Conference Overview

The Center's 2009 New Jersey Health Policy Conference engaged over 180 of New Jersey's health policy leaders in discussions on how health care quality and efficiency can be improved in the state. The 2009 Commonwealth Fund State Scorecard on Health System Performance, co-authored by CSHP, ranked New Jersey 30th in overall system performance and 48th in potentially avoidable hospital use and cost. This and other studies have shown that nearby states with similar socio-demographic characteristics, and even states with far fewer resources than New Jersey, perform better on diverse measures of health system performance, particularly with regard to costs associated with care for seniors with chronic illness and those near the end of life. The 2009 Health Policy Conference built on recent research findings and drew on the experiences of other states to identify steps that New Jersey government and the private sector can take to improve value for the dollars spent on health care in the state.

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Commonwealth Fund State Scorecard

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