Fresh start for Bergen hospital under New Bridge name
The state’s largest county-owned hospital, formerly the for-profit Bergen Regional Medical Center, has opened its doors as the nonprofit New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus.
The change in ownership after 20 years comes with a...
Continuum to provide services to hospitalist group Adfinitas
Continuum Health, which is known for providing physicians with administrative services to help reduce the burden of those costs, recently announced it is partnering with Adfinitas Health, the largest hospitalist group in the Mid-Atlantic...
S. Jersey’s Kennedy Health renamed Jefferson Health after merger
The Kennedy Health name will disappear from the health system’s buildings as it transitions to Jefferson Health under the terms of a merger that became effective last month.
The system’s three facilities will now be...
Former Bristol-Myers exec becomes SVP with Celldex
A former Bristol-Myers Squibb vice president has joined Hampton’s Celldex Therapeutics Inc.
Dr. Margo Heath-Chiozzi will be the senior vice president of regulatory affairs for the drug company.
She has more than 25 years of experience...
Integra wraps up $1B purchase of J&J neurosurgery unit
Medical technology leader Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp. has completed its $1.045 billion acquisition of Codman Neurosurgery from Johnson & Johnson.
“The addition of Codman Neurosurgery expands our global leadership position by creating one of the...
Health insurers ramp up efforts to reach individual, minority markets
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and AmeriHealth New Jersey are stepping up their efforts to market Affordable Care Act marketplace plans in the wake of the federal government’s 90 percent funding...
Quest Diagnostics acquires two Conn. hospitals’ lab services
Secaucus' Quest Diagnostics now has the outreach lab services operations of two Connecticut hospitals.
Doctors and patients of the William W. Backus Hospital and the Hospital of Central Connecticut, both of Hartford HealthCare, will now...
UnitedHealthcare names exec CEO of Medicaid division
UnitedHealthcare has named a new head of its Medicaid division, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of New Jersey.
Jocelyn Chisholm Carter, who has been with the company for 13 years and most recently served as the CEO...
Hospital CEO sees parallels between struggles in Puerto Rico, Haiti
Holy Name Medical Center CEO Michael Maron sees the reports of Puerto Ricans struggling to get relief aid and supplies in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria with a different perspective than most.
Maron...
Trinitas names $18.7M emergency dept. for CEO Horan
Trinitas Regional Medical Center has named its new $18.7 million emergency department after CEO and President Gary Horan.
The 24,000-square-foot project increases Trintas’ bed capacity from 27 to 45, and adds new private treatment areas...
