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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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'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