New Year's Greeting

To Members of the Skylands Family & Friends:

As we begin the new year, we can look back on 2018 as a watershed year for the Skylands program that left us well positioned for the challenges and opportunities in our future.

The singular accomplishment of 2018 was the successful conversion of Skylands to the new fee for service financing system mandated by the state. Mastering this complex system required our senior leaders to aggressively seek new information and guidelines to implement this fundamental change.

Staff members at our Day Habilitation Center in Hackettstown and at our group homes in Fredon and Randolph were trained and stepped up to the added responsibility of digitally documenting in detail the services they provide in order to bill Medicaid, as the new system requires.

Best of all, this major transition was made with no disruption of services to Skylands consumers. That's because Skylands staff, as always, remained focused on the overall goal of providing the best possible quality of life to the consumers who depend on us.

So we'd like to extend our personal thanks to Skylands Staff and to the volunteer board members and other friends of the program whose help we know we can continue to count on in 2019.

Thank You and Happy New Year!

Nicole D’Ambrosi, Executive Director
Timothy Donovan, Assistant to Executive Director

The Skylands Board:
Richard Gottardi, President
Bruce Brackett
Stephen Filipow, Treasurer
Sheila Gottardi, Secretary
Janet Kimble, Vice President
Joan Mach
Joseph Mach
Nancy Richardson