CSHP News
Recent Publications
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Recent Presentations
Field Report:
New Jersey’s Small Employer
Health Benefits Program
presentation by Dina Belloff,
for the The Rockefeller Institute
of Government at SUNY-Albany,
April 9, 2008

Racial & Ethnic Differences in Issue Concerns and Support for Health Policy
Change in New Jersey?
presentation by Joel C. Cantor,
at the Commissioner’s Roundtable on
Health Disparities NJ Department
of Health and Senior Services,
December 4, 2007
Recent Project Awards
The Rutgers Center for State Health Policy was recently awarded nearly $1.7 million over 30 months to conduct an in-depth analysis of childhood obesity in 5 New Jersey communities. The grant, awarded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, aims to support our work in the development of obesity prevention strategies in each of these cities, as well as to serve as the baseline for the evaluation of those strategies.

CSHP was recently awarded a $100,000 grant by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to study how the quality of care changes for people living in markets in which hospitals close. This multi-state study focuses on an issue that is particularly timely in New Jersey. This project is funded by the AHRQ under its small grant program.


CSHP was recently awarded a two-year, $360,000 award to conduct an in-depth study of state policies (in NJ and around the nation) that permit young adults to remain as dependents on their parents’ health insurance plans through early adulthood. These policies are intended to reduce the percentage of young adults without coverage. This project, funded under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s SHARE initiative, builds on CSHP’s substantial work on state coverage policy.

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CSHP FINDS NEW JERSEYANS WORRIED BY HOSPITAL
CLOSURES, EMERGENCY RESPONSE CAPABILITY

The declining fiscal health of many New Jersey hospitals – a trend underscored by the closure of nearly 20 facilities over the past 10 years – has not gone unnoticed by state residents. A recent study by the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, finds that a large percentage of Garden Staters are at least “somewhat worried” by these closures, and that even more are similarly concerned about the ability of the remaining facilities to respond effectively during mass casualty emergencies such as natural disasters or acts of terrorism.

In a survey of 1,104 adults in June and July 2007, 32 percent of adults in New Jersey considered themselves “very worried” about hospital closures overall, highlighted by 42 percent who considered themselves to be “very worried” in the northeastern part of the state, a region which is dotted with many older, urban areas. Similarly, 44 percent of New Jersey residents were “very worried” about hospital preparedness in the event of a mass casualty emergency, again highlighted by the northeastern region of the state, at 49 percent.

To view the complete Facts & Findings which details
the findings, please click below:

New Jersey Health Care Opinion Poll:
Public Concern About Hospital Capacity

Press Release - February 20th, 2008

For other CSHP research on New Jersey hospitals,
please click the links below:

For more information on the New Jersey Health Care
Opinion Poll, please click the links below:

 
CSHP Mission and Role

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Rutgers Center for State Health Policy informs, supports, and stimulates sound and creative state health policy in New Jersey and around the nation. CSHP provides impartial policy analysis, research, training, facilitation and consultation on important state health policy issues. Established in 1999 with substantial funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Center is a research unit within the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Affiliated Initiatives
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Go to the Community Living Exchange

The Community Living Exchange is a joint effort of Rutgers Center for State Health Policy (CSHP) and the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP). Funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through grants awarded under the Systems Change Community Living Initiative launched in September 2001, the Exchange is a vital hub of information sharing, training and technical assistance for more than 187 recipients of Systems Change Grants for Community Living.
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Go to State Solutions

State Solutions is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national program managed by CSHP working with states to increase enrollment in and access to the Medicare Savings Programs.
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Go to New Jersey Health Initiatives


New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI), a statewide grantmaking program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, supports innovative approaches to resolve health and health care needs in New Jersey. CSHP partners with NJHI on state policy and program evaluation issues.
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Go to Project L/EARN

Project L/EARN aims to increase the number of minority students in the fields of mental health, health and health policy research, thereby expanding the breadth of health research to include a broader range of ethnic and cultural issues, concerns and perspectives. CSHP is a training site for Project L/EARN.
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Go to the Rutgers Research Data Center Initiative

Under the 2008-2009 Academic Excellence Fund, the Rutgers RDC initiative offers a competitive call for Seed Grant Proposals. Up to five seed grants will be awarded to Rutgers investigators for innovative research projects using demographic, economic, or health data from the New York Census Research Data Center (NYCRDC).
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