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U.S. News Releases Latest 'Best Hospitals In NJ' Rankings U.S. News Releases Latest 'Best Hospitals In NJ' Rankings
U.S. News Releases Latest 'Best Hospitals In NJ' Rankings The "U.S. News & World Report" has released its latest hospital rankings. The website considered more than 4,500 medical centers nationwide and honed in one 15 specialties, and 17 procedures and conditions. "The Best Hospitals procedure and condition ratings focus on specific and more commonly required individual procedures and conditions, such as hip replacement and heart failure, rather than on broader specialties like orthopedics and cardiology," U.S. News explains.  "The goal is to evaluate how well hospitals perform in each procedure or condition – and not just with the most …

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by Cecilia Levine
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'Dream Became Reality': Linden Firefighter Inspires With Organ Transplant Story 'Dream Became Reality': Linden Firefighter Inspires With Organ Transplant Story
'Dream Became Reality': Linden Firefighter Inspires With Organ Transplant Story A Linden firefighter is opening up about his heart transplant in an effort to raise awareness toward the importance of organ and tissue donation. Knowing heart disease runs in his family, Mathew Pribish went in for a routine cardiology checkup more than a decade ago. "I wanted to make sure that, as a firefighter, my heart was healthy," Pribish said. During one of those checkups, the firefighter was told that he has Marfan Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that affects the heart, joints and other parts of the body. In 2013, after being monitored for a few years, Pribish's aortic root…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Englewood Health Opens New Doctors Office In Cliffside Park Englewood Health Opens New Doctors Office In Cliffside Park
Englewood Health Opens New Doctors Office In Cliffside Park Englewood Health has opened a new primary and specialty care doctors office in Cliffside Park. Englewood Health Physician Network is located in a 6,000-square-foot facility at Towne Centre on Anderson Avenue. The offices have 12 exam rooms along with entirely-new lab and imaging equipment, and physician consult offices.  Patients can access primary care for acute, chronic and routine medical care, school or occupational physicals, immunizations, and travel medicine, as well as onsite testing such as laboratory and imaging studies, EKGs, stress testing, and pulmonary function test…

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by Cecilia Levine