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RWJBarnabas Health, in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s leading cancer center and only National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, announced today that it is a grantee supported through the Alliance for Equity in Cancer Care (the Alliance), an initiative funded by the Merck Foundation (the Foundation) and designed to make cancer care more equitable in the United States by helping patients living in underserved communities receive timely access to high-quality, culturally responsive care. RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey have been awarded a $2 million grant over five years.

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Persona IQ Smart Knee captures and transmits knee motion data that can optimize patient monitoring, recovery and research after knee replacement surgery

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Only hospital in New Jersey to offer GI Genius™ intelligent endoscopy modules through Medtronic and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Assistance Program, supported by American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) selection of sites.

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Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center became the first hospital in New Jersey to acquire an intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system installed in the Helena Theurer Pavilion in June. The Siemens Healthineers MAGNETOM Combi Suite allows for MR images to be taken before surgery, enhancing presurgical planning, as well as during the procedure, to improve the accuracy of brain tumor removal. When not in use during surgery, the MRI suite is available for diagnostic imaging, adding to the hospital's existing arsenal of imaging tools.

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The Organ Transplantation Division at Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center, one of only a few certified transplant centers in New Jersey, is bringing its world-class services to satellite locations in the central and southern regions of New Jersey. Consultations, testing and follow up care of transplants are now available at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune and JFK University Medical Center in Edison.

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A world-class team of researchers assembled and led by Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and its Deputy Director and Chief Scientific Officer Eileen White, PhD, has been awarded a $25 million Cancer Grand Challenges grant to tackle the condition of cancer cachexia.

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Hackensack Meridian Children’s Health is again ranked a top provider of pediatric health care in the state. Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, and K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical Center - which make up the Hackensack Meridian Children’s Health network - are ranked #1 in the state and top 20 in the Mid-Atlantic Region in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-23 Best Children’s Hospital Report.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation Raises $5 Million at Network-Wide Celebration on May 21

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Rutgers Center for State Health Policy launched the New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) Project this week to address some of the state’s most pressing health care issues with a virtual Research Consortium.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation to Host Inaugural Network-Wide Celebration on May 21

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Future Physicians at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and New Jersey Communities to Benefit from $1 Million Gift to School’s Human Dimension Program

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The Challenge seeks to reduce 30-day readmissions for: acute myocardial infarction (AMI); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); heart failure (HF); pneumonia; coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery; and elective primary total hip arthroplasty and/or total knee arthroplasty (THA/TKA).

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Hackensack Meridian Health CEO Robert C. Garrett Addresses the Importance of Health Care Equity at Inaugural POLITICO Health Summit in Washington, D.C.

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“Our goal is to help both adults and children improve their quality of life after injury, illness or surgery,” said Anthony Cuzzola, vice president, Rehabilitation Care Transformation Services, Hackensack Meridian Health. “Our dedicated medical professionals will assess your condition and develop a personalized treatment program.”

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Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s ALS Center recently became the second New Jersey hospital to achieve status as an ALS Association Certified Treatment Center of Excellence from the association’s National Office and the Greater Philadelphia Chapter.

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Affiliation agreement allows the organizations to work together to support breakthroughs in biomedical research and technologies within the Hackensack Meridian Health network, the largest and most comprehensive in New Jersey.

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On the eve of admitting New Jersey’s very first confirmed COVID-19 patient on March 3, 2019, Hackensack University Medical Center buried a time capsule today with contents commemorating all that has happened since the start of the pandemic.

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Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center and Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center provides free dental care for children in observance of National Children’s Health Dental Health Month, and to mark Give Kids a Smile (GKAS) Day,.

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Hackensack Meridian Children's Health is the Only Pediatric Health Network in New Jersey Undertaking Study into New Kidney Medication

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Awards Two Grants to Aid Hackensack Meridian Health in Advancing Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment

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Sanjay Goel, MD, MS has been named director of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey's Phase I/Investigational Therapeutics Program, a multidisciplinary scientific group designed to develop new methods for the treatment of cancer in collaboration with colleagues across the RWJBarnabas Health system.

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Hackensack University Medical Center registered nurse springs into action to help victims of multi-car pile up on icy bridge while on her way to work.

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The Communicable Disease Service of the NJDOH recognized Mountainside Medical Center as a 2021 Antimicrobial Steward. The award recognizes facilities who promoted antimicrobial stewardship practices from 2020 to 2021 that encourage and maintain the health of patients, personnel and the NJ population.

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Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest and most comprehensive health network, today announced a partnership with CLEAR (NYSE: YOU), the secure identity company, to empower patients with a digital proof of their COVID-19 vaccination records. Patients vaccinated at Hackensack Meridian Health can now use the free CLEAR app and digital vaccine card feature - replacing their fragile paper card with a verified digital version that can be used anywhere and anytime needed.

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Hackensack Meridian Health today announced that Jose Lozano, President and Chief Executive Officer of Choose New Jersey, will rejoin New Jersey’s largest, most comprehensive health network as Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Partnerships on January 3, 2022.

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The American Cancer Society (ACS) has announced an $80,000 partnership with Atlantic Health System Cancer Care to help encourage more New Jersey women to get screening mammograms, as part of the national Return to Screening (RTS) initiative. Atlantic Health System is part of an overarching cohort with more than 51 institutions across the country to drive quality improvement processes and interventions in order to deliver cancer screenings appropriately, safely, and equitably during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Atlantic Health System is the only New Jersey health system chosen to participate in the initial RTS cohort. The $80,000 grant will be divided among four Atlantic Health System sites.

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This morning, the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, The County of Bergen and Hackensack University Medical Center teamed up to deliver 1,500 turkeys for the families and individuals served by Center for Food Action.

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Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s Neuroscience Institute recently established its comprehensive Movement Disorder Program. Movement disorders refer to a group of neurological conditions that cause abnormal, increased or reduced body movements that are typically involuntary. Three of the major disorders are Parkinson’s Disease, Essential Tremors, and Dystonia.

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Rutgers School of Public Health’s Slawa Rokicki, instructor in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy, and Leslie M. Kantor, professor and chair of the Department of Urban-Global Public Health, have received a Burke Foundation grant to utilize existing data from doula programs to develop a tool that can be used by programs throughout New Jersey to assess service models that can lead to program sustainability.

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Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, in close collaboration with New York University, has received $11.6 million in funding from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to develop the Rutgers-NYU Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity (CAHPE).

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Promising Therapy Is Offered through Multicenter International Study