News from NJAFP
COVID-19 Maternal & Infant Outcomes Project
The Department of Health is working to reach out to healthcare providers that provide prenatal care in order to identify cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy in order to track maternal and infant outcomes. You can help. Review the letter ...
Read More Special Message from NJAFP: You Are Not Alone
Dear NJAFP Member, We know that you have all been stretched to the limit, and NJAFP has been working hard throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to help you and your patients. We want to take a moment to thank you for ...
Read More Op-Ed: We Need a ‘Marshall Plan’ to Save Infrastructure of Primary Care, Public Health
RAY SAPUTELLI | APRIL 20, 2020 | OPINION, CORONAVIRUS IN NJ Primary care physicians have been largely ignored during this crisis; pandemic has ‘exposed gaping cracks in our siloed, fractured and disconnected health care system’ Ray Saputelli Following the devastation of World ...
Read More CARES Act Releasing First Round of Relief Funding to Health Service Providers
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is releasing the first $30 billion in relief funds from the Public Health and Social Services Stimulus Fund created by the CARES Act starting today, April 10, 2020. Many of you may have ...
Read More Quality Institute Guide to Telehealth in NJ: Patient Access to Telehealth Services in NJ during the COVID-19 Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, telehealth is quickly becoming the most widely used option for patients across the state to receive care. In fact, many health care providers who previously did not perform telehealth visits with their patients are now ...
Read More Elective Surgeries Suspended Effective March 27 At 5pm
Effective 5 pm, Friday, March 27, all elective surgeries or invasive procedures, both medical and dental, have been suspended. No operation that can be safely delayed, as determined by a patient’s doctor or dentist, will be performed after this time, ...
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Perspectives: A View of Family Medicine in New Jersey Online
Perspectives is the Journal of the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians. It is published four times per year and reaches over 2000 Family Physicians, physicans-in-training, select non-member physicians and medical students throughout New Jersey.
How do I submit an article for publication?
Clinical articles, letters to the editor and other submissions for publication should be submitted - preferably electronically as MS Word documents - to the Managing Editor, Theresa J. Barrett, PhD, CMP, CAE
The Editors reserve the right to accept or reject any article or advertising material.