The Final Report has been separated into smaller pdf files for your convenience.
Table of Contents [pdf 52k]
A Letter from the Chairman [pdf 125k]
Executive Summary [pdf 197k]
New Jersey Commission on Rationalizing Health Care Resources, Final Report 2008
Section I : Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Commission's Tasks [pdf 100k]
Section II : New Jersey's Health Care System - An Overview
- Chapter 2 : Population Served by New Jersey's Health Care System [pdf 65k]
- Chapter 3 : Supply and Utilization of New Jersey Acute Care Hospitals [pdf 357k]
- Chapter 4 : Analyzing Future Supply of and Demand for Acute Care Hospitals [pdf 784k]
- Chapter 5 : Assessing the Financial and Operational Condition of New Jersey Hospitals [pdf 810k]
Section III : Factors Affecting the Economics and Performance of New Jersey Hospitals
- Chapter 6 : Hospital Economics 101 [pdf 660k]
- Chapter 7 : State Funding for New Jersey Hospitals [pdf 97k]
- Chapter 8 : The Relationship of Hospitals and Physicians [pdf 162k]
- Chapter 9 : State Regulation Impacting Acute Care Hospitals [pdf 77k]
- Chapter 10 : The Governance of New Jersey Hospitals [pdf 412k]
- Chapter 11 : Adequacy of the Ambulatory Care Safety Net and Other Access Barriers [pdf 100k]
Section IV : Prioritizing Financial Assistance to Financially Distressed Hospitals
- Chapter 12 : Identifying New Jersey's Essential Hospitals [pdf 275k]
- Chapter 13 : Supporting Essential, Financially Distressed Hospitals [pdf 64k]
- Chapter 14 : Facilitating the Closure of Non-Essential, Financially Distressed Hospitals [pdf 93k]
- Chapter 15 : Improving State Oversight to Provide Greater Accountability for State Resources [pdf 106k]
Section V : A Vision for a 21st Century Health Care System
- Chapter 16 : An Information Infrastructure for New Jersey Health Care [pdf 240k]
Appendices for Final Report
Table of Contents: [pdf 45k]
- Appendix 1 : Dartmouth Atlas-Defined Hospital Referral Regions for New Jersey Area [pdf 186k]
- Appendix 2 : Adjustments to Dartmouth Atlas-Defined Hospital Referral Regions to Form New Jersey Hospital Market Areas [pdf 38k]
- Appendix 3 : New Jersey Acute Care Hospitals by Hospital Market Area [pdf 42k]
- Appendix 4 : New Jersey Population and Inpatient Hospital Volume Projections - Additional Information [pdf 840k]
- Appendix 5 : Financial Data Sources and Considerations [pdf 40k]
- Appendix 6 : Methodology for Comparing Hospitals [pdf 50k]
- Appendix 7 : Issues to Address in Closing a Hospital [pdf 50k]
- Appendix 8 : Final Subcommittee Reports:
- Appendix 8.1 : Access and Equity for the Medically Underserved [pdf 87k]
- Appendix 8.2 : Benchmarking for Efficiency and Quality [pdf 96k]
- Appendix 8.3 : Infrastructure of Healthcare Delivery [pdf 244k]
- Appendix 8.4 : Reimbursement and Payment [pdf 85k]
- Appendix 8.5 : Regulatory and Legal Reform [pdf 837k]
- Appendix 8.6 : Hospital/Physician Relations and Practice Efficiency [pdf 164k]
