New Jersey Department of Health: Programs, Structure, and Mission

Running head: THE NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
The New Jersey Department of Health

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Introduction
The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDH) is a governmental agency of U.S of
New Jersey’s State Board of Health. It regulates a wide range of health care settings for
delivering quality of care like nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living residences, home
health care, ambulatory care, medical day care, and adults’ day care services, alternate family
care, ambulatory surgery, assisted living program, chronic haemodialysis and behavioural
health management program. It also covers facilities like computerised axial tomography,
drug abuse treatment, comprehensive rehabilitations hospital, extracorporeal shock wave
lithotripsy, family planning and federally qualified health centers (NJDH, 2018).
Why it is interesting?
The overall activity of the NJDH is interesting because it provides a comprehensive
coverage of the different aspects of healthcare in human life starting from chronic diseases,
communicable disease, cancer, community health and well-being and local public health.
Official website of the NJDH also states that in order to ensure compliance with the stated
regulations, the survey facilities attempts to investigate the complaints and simultaneously
penalize facilities for non-compliance. They also certify aides and administrators under
different settings like nursing homes in order to ensure proper training and experience in
order to meet the standards.
The following report provides a detailed analysis of the functional and organizational
structure of the New Jersey Department of Health.
Information about the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDH)
The main programs covered under the NJDH are highlighted below in a tabular format in an
alphabetical order

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Addiction
Autism
Brain injury
Cancer
Chronic disease
Communicable disease
Community Health and Wellness
Consumer Health
Drug safety
Early Intervention
Emergency Medical Services
Family Health
HIV/AIDS
Immunization
Maternal and Child health
Mental health
Occupational heath
Population health
Primary Health care
Special child health and early intervention
Spinal cord research
Tuberculosis
Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)
Apart from covering health care programs, which are, directly associated with the
health and wellbeing of the humankind, NJDH also carry out the administrative, legal and
financial works associated with health care.These include health care financing, health

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facilities evaluation, health facilities licensing, health statistics, human resource management,
legal and regulatory domains of health, minority and multicultural health, maintaining public
health laboratories, and recovery office. According to Black (2013), delivering health care
interventions is not comprehensive in controlling the health care issues prevailing in the
society. In order to implement the healthcare programs in a successful manner, measurement
of the outcomes of the health care programs is important (Boyce, Browne & Greenhalgh,
2014). This measurement of the outcomes of the health care program is done through
comparing health care statistics. Furthermore, analysis of the outcomes in health care helps in
further change in the health care policy and financial planning. All these work are important
administrative work in healthcare (Carlier et al., 2012).
Not only human health, NJHD also has avenues for providing a healthy living
atmosphere for the animals and this is done via animal welfare and veterinary public health.
NJDH also takes active initiatives in managing the environmental health. Thus it can be said
that the NJDH not only controls and co-ordinates the health care interventions and policy of
the human health, but also take active initiatives in controlling and co-coordinatingveterinary
health and environmental health.
The important facility types, which are covered under the NJDH, include
Facility type Definition
Adult Day Care
Services
Delivers diagnostic, preventive, rehabilitative, therapeutic services under nursing
and medical supervision for functionally impaired participants during day time
(12 hours)
Ambulatory care
facility
Delivers diagnostic, preventive, rehabilitative treatment services to individuals
who come to the healthcare facility to receive services and depart from the
facility on that very day
Assisted Living Provides assisted living services to individuals of publicly subsidized housing