The New Jersey Healthcare Quality Institute (a Nicholson Foundation grantee) has created a Value Proposition Packet to educate the public about Medicaid ACOs and how these organizations work to strengthen health care and support communities.
The research is clear that full-day, high-quality pre-school benefits young children most by preparing them for kindergarten and providing them with a solid foundation for future success in school and in life. To measure the need and the will to expand pre-school to all eligible children, Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) surveyed more than 100 districts that currently receive limited preschool state aid.
The federal proposal to expand preschool is a bold investment in the future of children and of our country. Each year, about 50,000 low-income New Jersey children benefit from high-quality preschool. It has been 15 years since New Jersey first started this successful preschool initiative. As the federal proposal evolves, New Jersey’s lessons learned can inform the debate on how to implement quality preschool on a national level.
Quality child care for young children is essential to building strong families, strong communities and an economically-healthy state and nation. This special Kids Count report provides a close look at child care for New Jersey’s youngest children, birth to age 5, in two key areas—cost and quality.
New Jersey’s Medicaid ACO Pilot is designed to improve the care available to Medicaid beneficiaries, who too often confront barriers to primary care and coordinated care for serious illness and chronic conditions. This Report discusses the relationship between the Medicaid ACO Pilot program and the managed care orientation of New Jersey’s Medicaid system, as it will move forward under the Comprehensive Waiver granted by the federal government in 2012.
