Regional Leader Information
Website: www.njhcqi.org
Region: New Jersey, New York
Covered Counties: All
Primary Contact: Adelisa Perez
Title: Director of Quality
Address: P.O. Box 2246 Princeton, NJ 08543
Phone: 609-452-5980
Email: aperez@njhcqi.org
Secondary Contact: Linda Schwimmer
Title: President & CEO
Email: lschwimmer@njhcqi.org
The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute is the only independent, nonpartisan, multi-stakeholder advocate for health care quality in New Jersey. We are committed to improving health care quality and safety, expanding access to good care, and controlling costs for employers and consumers.
Our mission is to undertake projects and promote system changes that ensure that quality, safety, accountability and cost-containment are closely linked to the delivery of health care services in New Jersey.
The Quality Institute convenes a unique community. Our members come from every health care interest: consumer groups, physicians, nurses, health plans, hospitals, accountable care organizations, employers, unions; foundations, pharmaceutical companies, and innovators.
We are the only place in New Jersey where competitors, friends, advocates, industry, reformists and others sit together and objectively discuss health care policy. We believe that collaboration is essential to improving health care.
The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute is also the Leapfrog Regional Leader for New York and covers all hospitals there as well.
Market Information
Geographic coverage: New Jersey
Population: 8,864,590 (2012)
List of area’s largest employers (by employee size):
Wakefern Food Corp/Shop Rite (Private) = 35,952
Saint Barnabas Healthcare System (Private) = 19,600
Verizon (Public) = 18,000
Park Place Entertainment (Public) = 16,000
AT&T Corp (Public) = 15,000
Merck & Co (Public) = 12,722
Prudential Financial (Public) = 12,321
RWJ Health System & Network (Private) = 11,371
Hospital characteristics (total number of general acute care facilities): 70 Hospitals in New Jersey
NJ Health Care Systems:
Atlantic Health System (5 hospitals)
Atlanticare (2 hospitals)
Cape Regional Health System (1 hospital)
Capital Health System (2 hospitals)
CarePoint Health System (3 hospitals)
CentraState Health System (1 hospital)
Community Health System (1 hospital)
Cooper Health System (1 hospital)
Englewood Health System (1 hospital)
Hackensack Meridian Health System (12 hospitals)
Hunterdon Healthcare System, Inc. (1 hospital)
Jefferson Health System (3 hospitals)
Penn Medicine Health System (1 hospital)
Prime Healthcare Services Health System (4 hospitals)
RWJ Barnabas Health System (11 hospitals)
Saint Peter’s HealthCare System (1 hospital)
St. Joseph’s Healthcare System (2 hospitals)
St. Luke’s Healthcare System (1 hospital)
Trinity Health System (1 hospital)
Valley Health System (1 hospital)
Virtua Health (5 hospitals)
The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute is also the Leapfrog Regional Leader for New York and covers all hospitals there as well.