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File photo: New Jersey’s COVID-19 vaccination programs begins Tuesday, Dec. 15. New York’s began Dec. 14. Pharmacists arrived with the vaccine at NYU-Langone Hospital on Monday.
With several New Jersey hospitals on Tuesday slated to begin vaccinating health care workers against COVID-19 and more than 300,000 more doses anticipated in the weeks to come, the state is poised to enter a new and potentially more effective phase in its battle against the deadly coronavirus.
But these early shipments provide only the first of two shots needed to protect just over half of the group designated the highest priority some 650,000 paid and unpaid health care workers and 75,000 long-term care residents. New Jersey officials stressed it will be months still before the vaccine is available to the general public and almost a year before we reach so-called herd immunity, at which point enough people are vaccinated to properly control the spread of the virus.
Here are N.J.’s safest hospitals. See how yours fared in new national report.
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, N.J. is the only hospital in the state to receive straight-A s in the Leapfrog safety report card since the surveys began in 2012.
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New Jersey hospitals rank 17th best in the nation for safety, a drop from eighth place a year ago and a potentially troubling sign as the pandemic continues to make unrelenting demands on healthcare professionals, according to the latest Leapfrog Hospital Safety report card.
Six hospitals went up a grade while 15 hospitals went down a grade, according to an analysis by the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, a consumer, research nonprofit that jointly releases the report with Leapfrog.
UpdatedTue, Dec 15, 2020 at 9:48 am ET
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The other hospitals who got the Pfizer vaccine in the first round are Hackensack University Medical Center, University Health in Newark, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City and Cooper University Hospital in Camden. (Google Earth)
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ The main campus of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick is among the first batch of hospitals in the state to receive Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine.
The state of New Jersey has 76,050 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to give in the first round.
The other hospitals who got it in the first round are University Health in Newark (also part of the RWJ-Barnabas network), Hackensack University Medical Center, Morristown Medical Center, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City and Cooper University Hospital in Camden. All have arctic-level, subzero freezers in place to store the vaccines.
UpdatedWed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:31 pm ET
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Officials gave out the state’s first round of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech to health care workers at University Hospital in Newark, NJ on Tuesday. (Edwin Torres/Office of Governor Phil Murphy)
NEWARK, NJ Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the health care workers at University Hospital in Newark have battled, cheered and wept alongside their patients. And perhaps it s only fitting that the first COVID-19 vaccination in the Garden State was given in one of its hardest-hit cities.
On Tuesday morning, officials gave out the state s first round of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech to health care workers at University Hospital.
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