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L P Scibetta

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PubMed1989

NJHA and continuing education.

Founded in 1918, the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) has, as its mission, the advocacy for health care services provided by New Jersey hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care institutions. Through its current membership of 126 institutions, the Association seeks to provide guidance in shaping policy and in improving the organization and delivery of quality health care. Along with other affiliated organizations, based at its Center for Health Affairs in Princeton, NJHA offers a variety of services. For example, NJHA: represents member institutions on legislative and regulatory problems before the Health Care Administration Board, Hospital Rate-Setting Commission, and other regulatory and legislative bodies; assists member hospitals in assessing and providing solutions to manpower needs; communicates common problems and accomplishments among member institutions through several publications and other media; and joins with MSNJ in conducting continuing medical education programs for physicians and hospital administrators, jointly working to develop position papers on health care issues. The following article presents an opinion piece by the president of NJHA, in which he addresses a current major concern of his organization, that is, how quality CME can be maintained given the severe economic constraints imposed by today's health care economy.

Education, Medical, Continuing↗
PubMed1983

Join hospitals in working toward a common reimbursement goal.

In light of growing public concern about rising health care costs, government is seeking ways to reduce expenditures while maintaining the accessibility and quality of health care for Americans. Prospective payment and competition are two proposed mechanisms for achieving reduced costs; both impact on hospitals and pathologists. Hospitals and pathologists share a number of common interests including the same market, patients, physicians as colleagues, and the desire to provide quality care and have less government intervention. They clearly must work together to assure the survival of the health care system as it is today. This article, first presented at the American Pathology Foundation last year, describes, from a hospital administrator's perspective, an experimental reimbursement system used in New Jersey.

Hospital Departments↗