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Baby girl Genevieve Kosinski born at 12:05 a.m. to parents Jon and Gina Kosinski at Raritan Bay Medical Center. (Hackensack Meridian Health)
Aryan Patel, born at 3:29 a.m. Jan. 1, 2021 at Saint Peter s in New Brunswick. (Michelle Lazzarotti/Saint Peter s University Hospital)
Saint Peter s decorated the crib for their first baby of the new decade, Baby Boy Aryan Patel. (Michelle Lazzarotti/Saint Peter s University Hospital)
Baby Boy Diaz, born at 6:08 a.m. at JFK Medical Center to Any Mayorquin and Rony Diaz. (Hackensack Meridian Health)
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ What a cutie! This little boy born to Milltown parents before dawn on New Year s Day welcomed in not only a new year, but also bade farewell to a year most of us would like to forget.
December 22, 2020
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Physicians and employees who handle COVID-19 cases or have a high level of patient interaction at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick have begun receiving Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine.
The hospital said in a Dec. 22 statement that all employees and doctors who want the shot eventually will be able to get it.
“This is a moment we’ve long anticipated,” said Leslie Hirsch, Saint Peter’s president and CEO. “For the past nine months, our dedicated and selfless healthcare heroes have been working on the frontlines, committed to saving lives while often risking their own. We are fortunate to be one of the first recipients of the Moderna vaccine, one which has been shown to be 94% effective in preventing COVID-19.”
Megan Chan, BSN, RN-BC, DSRIP/Community Health Services/1G Metabolic Unit, is the first employee of Saint Peter s University Hospital to receive the Moderna vaccine from Employee Health Services Manager Linda Vance, RN, BSN, COHN-S/CM, as Leslie D. Hirsch, president and CEO, Saint Peter s Healthcare System, and Linda Carroll, MSN, RN, RN-BC, vice president of Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer, look on.PHOTO COURTESY OF SAINT PETER S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ×
Megan Chan, BSN, RN-BC, DSRIP/Community Health Services/1G Metabolic Unit, is the first employee of Saint Peter s University Hospital to receive the Moderna vaccine from Employee Health Services Manager Linda Vance, RN, BSN, COHN-S/CM, as Leslie D. Hirsch, president and CEO, Saint Peter s Healthcare System, and Linda Carroll, MSN, RN, RN-BC, vice president of Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer, look on.PHOTO COURTESY OF SAINT PETER S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Saint Peter’s University Hospital, a member of Saint Peter’s Healthcare System, received an “A” for the Fall 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.
A national distinction, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade looks at publicly available measures of safety such as the hospital’s performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections and other issues related to patients in their care. Developed under the guidance of a national panel of experts, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses up to 27 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to more than 2,600 U.S. acute-care hospitals twice per year. The Hospital Safety Grade’s methodology is peer-reviewed and fully transparent with results free and available to the public. The Safety Grade assigns an A, B, C, D or F grade to all general hospitals across the country and is updated every six months.
Here are N.J.’s safest hospitals. See how yours fared in new national report.
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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.