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This week four experts testified at a US Senate committee about the impacts of personal protective equipment (PPE) and drug shortages during COVID-19, the effectiveness of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), and what kind of steps leaders must take to be better prepared for the next public health emergency.
The group spelled out the situation and the consequences of fragile supply chains before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing, COVID-19 Part II: Evaluating the Medical Supply Chain and Pandemic Response Gaps. Today we are in the final miles of the pandemic, but our public health crisis isn t completely over, said one of the experts, Shereef Elnahal, MD, president and chief executive officer of University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.
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Murphy admin, University Hospital collaborate to create affordable housing May 19, 2021
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The Murphy administration on May 19 announced a collaboration with University Hospital in Newark and L+M Development Partners, Type A Projects and MSquared under the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency’s (NJHMFA) Hospital Partnership Subsidy Program to provide vital affordable and supportive housing – including homes for frequent users of emergency services – in their host communities.
This project will provide 78 affordable rental apartments that will serve low- and moderate-income households to promote economic diversity in the Fairmount neighborhood of Newark.
Sixteen supportive housing units will be reserved for homeless individuals and families, and these will be supported by project-based rental vouchers provided through the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs’ Housing Choice Voucher Program. All supportive units will be paired with access to medica
Wounded mother’s teary identification of shooter upheld by N.J.’s highest court
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Amera Bell arrived at a Newark hospital in grave condition on May 5, 2014. She’d been shot five times in the Bradley Court apartments in the city and the paramedics who found her, face down and lifeless, had to restart her heart.
About two hours later, intubated and unable to talk, she regained consciousness. The doctor then gave her devastating news: one of the bullets ripped through her spine, leaving her paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe on her own.