We were here â health care chaplains reflect on COVID-19 ministry Deacon Richard Becker, director of pastoral care and ethics, blesses patient Camille Watts on World Day of the Sick at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, N.Y., Feb. 11. Hospital chaplains have had to adhere to COVID-19 protocols while offering pastoral care during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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select Florence Bolton, 85, a COVID-19 patient at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago, lies in her bed in intensive care Dec. 1, 2020, as family members attempt to FaceTime her. Hospital chaplains have increasingly used electronic digital devices to offer pastoral care to patients with the coronavirus. (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)
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Study reveals extremely low detection of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces in oncology facilities
Researchers from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, evaluated the frequency of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on various environmental surfaces in outpatient and inpatient hematology/oncology settings located within Rutgers Cancer Institute and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, an RWJBarnabas Health facility.
The study revealed extremely low detection of SARS-CoV-2 on environmental surfaces across multiple outpatient and inpatient oncology areas, including an active COVID-19 floor. Andrew M. Evens, DO, MSc, FACP, associate director for clinical services and director of the Lymphoma Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute and medical director of the oncology service line at RWJBarnabas Health, is senior author of the work, which has been published in the February 18 online edition of
The finding provides additional assurance that those receiving cancer care are safe when receiving care.
“For patients with blood cancers who may be at higher risk of developing complications from the virus, our findings provide a layer of assurance that these patients are safe when frequenting high impact areas where they receive their cancer care,” says Andrew Evens, the lead author of the study published in
Cancer, director of the Lymphoma Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and medical director of the oncology service line at RWJBarnabas Health.
“The results of this study help us further understand how COVID-19 is transmitted in hematology/oncology and other medical settings, and confirm that strategies like enhanced cleaning and disinfecting policies are extremely effective.”
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Having a baby is so joyful, the best thing, and the scariest thing in your life. I remember when I had my daughter. I know several friends that had babies and switched doctors because of the hospitals they delivered babies at. It s so important that you have a great doctor, one you feel most comfortable with, and a hospital that you can trust.
The hospitals here in Ocean County, I ve heard nothing but raving reviews about their maternity wards, so we are very lucky.
There is one hospital in Ocean County that made Newsweeks Best maternity Hospitals 2021 - Ocean Medical Center in Brick. Newsweek teamed up with The Leapfrog Group, a non-profit that reports on the safety and quality performance of health care facilities around the country.