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Hackensack Meridian's New Coronavirus Test Reduces Wait Time From Days To Hours Hackensack Meridian's New Coronavirus Test Reduces Wait Time From Days To Hours
Hackensack Meridian's New Coronavirus Test Reduces Wait Time From Days To Hours Hackensack Meridian Health has created a test that health officials say could save patients days of waiting for test results and help control the spread of coronavirus. Approved by the state's health department, the rapid response test will create a more effective triage system in hospitals and potentially better control the spread of coronavirus -- specifically reducing wait time from days to just hours, officials said. “We believe our test could make the difference in stemming outbreaks,” said David S. Perlin, Ph.D., the chief scientific officer and senior vice president of the …

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by Jon Craig
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Bergen County Man Is NJ's First Presumed Case Of Coronavirus Bergen County Man Is NJ's First Presumed Case Of Coronavirus
Bergen County Man Is NJ's First Presumed Case Of Coronavirus New Jersey's first presumed coronavirus patient is being hospitalized at Hackensack University Medical Center, authorities confirmed. The 32-year-old Fort Lee man has been hospitalized since Tuesday following what state officials said is a "presumptive positive result" of the coronavirus, or COVID-19. The case was first confirmed to staffers in an email from Daniel W. Varga, chief physician executive of Hackensack Meridian Health, which operates HUMC (below). The email confirming the coronavirus case at HUMC.Hackensack Meridian Health The positive test result came from one conducted in…

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by Cecilia Levine
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320 EMS Workers Will Lose Their Jobs When Monmouth Ocean Hospital Services Folds 320 EMS Workers Will Lose Their Jobs When Monmouth Ocean Hospital Services Folds
320 EMS Workers Will Lose Their Jobs When Monmouth Ocean Hospital Services Folds A major Emergency Medical Services company in Wall Township will begin shutting down after 42 years of operation on April 1. The shutdown of Monmouth Ocean Hospital Services Corp. (MONOC) affects 320 employees, according to this W.A.R.N. notice issued by the state Department of Labor.  MONOC, a non-profit company and healthcare co-operative, provides ambulance and other services to 13 acute care hospitals in New Jersey. In a Jan. 23 letter to company workers, Jeff Behm, MONOC's president and CEO, said the company was closing due to “a challenging financial environm…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Construction Worker Collapses On 4th-Floor Scaffold Outside HUMC Construction Worker Collapses On 4th-Floor Scaffold Outside HUMC
Construction Worker Collapses On 4th-Floor Scaffold Outside Humc Firefighters, construction workers and staff at Hackensack University Medical Center teamed up to get a worker who’d suffered a medical episode on a scaffold 50 feet above the street inside the building Tuesday morning, responders said. The 30-something worker had been doing heating and ventilation work on the Second Street side of HUMC around 11 a.m. when a co-worker “saw him slouched over, not breathing, and began CPR,” Police Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps who climbed the scaffolding with firefighters continued resuscitation efforts, ci…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bloomfield High Senior Accepted To 15 Schools, Including Princeton Bloomfield High Senior Accepted To 15 Schools, Including Princeton
Bloomfield High Senior Accepted To 15 Schools, Including Princeton This can be a tense time of year for college-bound high school seniors, who are now learning where they’ve been accepted, where they’ve been wait-listed and which schools simply wished them well in their future endeavors. Emmanuel Odekunle of Bloomfield has a lot to think about too -- such as deciding which of the more than one dozen schools where he’s been accepted he’s going to attend. “As of this moment, I have not yet made a decision as to which university I will be attending,” the senior at Bloomfield High School said in an interview late last week. “God will direct us on the best one…

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by Paul Milo