Northern New Jersey Maternal/Child Health Consortium
Annual Meeting on October 17, 2007
Bergen Community College
Paramus, NJ 07652

Northern New Jersey Maternal/Child Health Consortium will be celebrating 15 years of dedicated service to improving the health of mothers, children and families throughout northern New Jersey. As a part of this milestone, the Board will recognize Senator Loretta Weinberg, who has advocated tirelessly on behalf of women and children’s health.

They are honoring Senator Weinberg for furthering their mission by: lobbying to require health insurers to screen for cervical cancer, for requiring staffing standards at health care and ambulatory facilities and establishing a Safe Patient Handling Act, for supporting New Hope, Inc., which assists first-time mothers and their babies, for enabling physicians to earn CME’s by providing care to low income and uninsured patients, for supporting the NJ Smoke-Free Air Act, for requiring HMOs to report cases of lead poisoning, and for helping to establish a Department for Children and Families. “These are just a few of the ways in which Loretta has helped us to achieve our mission,” says President & CEO, Ilise Zimmerman, MPH, MS