NEW — FILE BEGINS 300 Pence Qeorec’s BOULEVARD B&B INFORMATION & IMAGE MANAGEMENT UPPER MARLEORD, MaRYLaAND 20772 © UBA * (3D1) 249-31130D RMP NEW JERSEY RM 00042 JULY/AUGUST 1974 REVIEW The New Jersey May 1 application included a total request of $3,970,024. The NAC approved the application in the amount of $3,190,000 and the funding level was set at $3,031,042, to support program staff and 7 projects (two of the latter had two parts each). The NAC considered the program superior with an experienced and capable staff, directed by a strong and effective RAG with broad community involvement. | ‘July 1 Application - The July application requests $1,710,548 to support, 5 program thrusts. The request is broad and comprehensive in several areas, particularly the Health Resources Planning proposal with its 7 subcomponents. Elements of two programmatic areas in the May application are proposed to be ~ advanced by this application's requests: the cost containment activity is proposed to be extended to a preventive program for the elderly in conjunction with the Admin. of Aging program; and hypertension is proposed to be extended to additional screening centers. Three “new areas of emphasis in the application are: (1) Cultural Awareness Program, an educational effort for groups of providers, to improve health care as a result of better understanding (ultimately to be extended to other Regions); (2) the Health Resources Planning proposal which comprises 7 sub- components: RMP-CHP consortium to improve health data collection and reporting systems, neighborhood health center management to improve efficiency and assure continuity of care, hospital plan development (guidelines for improving applications for Certificate of Need), ambulatory care (outpatient clinics) cost analysis study, student health services consortium and clinical education facilities coordination for health manpower education; (3) Consumers Health Education-training for coordinators. at pilot centers in community hospitals, to be developed in coordination with the Rutgers Medical School. In the main the proposals are directed at attaining the major program goals for improving health care in the state. ; £0/7/15/74 JULY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION Critique: ' . = ~ - ee eee = te - ~ So ee a ne at _ . + et ee ee nee a ee . wee eee _— eee ee ee ee ——— . . ' ° . es wee ee ee - - en eee ee re rete ce ne name me eee soe ee te ee ee re re ee ' - + oo - me we ee mame ne te emeee . we ee ee ee ee tee ae ee de ee ee me re ee te ee ‘ . — : Se eee Be ee te eee Be ee ee ee ee ee I ee pec eee ee tans ee pee eee eee Pe qe eee Fe mee eee fe Stein ete meee eee me eee ane el penne eae eee ee eke me tneeee Sener ct ne Fame ef emee cae RE Le em ete an nee em ere me Ree Cn mS me 8 Tan oe emma oman ence s ceame dang peta ath ee Stee cree mmecamem cea