Health Care

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 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...

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 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...

Quest Diagnostics is acquiring one of the country’s oldest clinical laboratories. The Secaucus-based provider of diagnostic information services has an agreement to take over Shiel Medical Laboratory from Fresenius Medical Care. Shiel is a clinical laboratory...

Lebanon-based Provention Bio Inc. has announced two new appointments. The clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to sourcing, developing and commercializing novel therapeutics aimed at intercepting and preventing immune-mediated disease, Thursday announced the appointment of Andrew Drechsler...

Camden’s growing reputation as an “eds and meds” center in the state got another big boost this week with the dedication of Rutgers-Camden’s $62.5 million Nursing and Science building. University officials feel the 107,000-square-foot building,...

The state’s health commissioner is going to be the new CEO and president of the New Jersey Hospital Association, according to a board of trustees announcement Tuesday. Cathleen Bennett, who has served as the commissioner...

Virtua has become a household name in parts of South Jersey, but it wasn’t always that way. Retiring CEO Richard Miller said that, after he led the merger of two hospitals that created the new...

The state’s largest health system has partnered with New Jersey's largest family-owned and -operated senior care provider to further develop an existing relationship focused on transition of acute to post-acute care. Barry Ostrowsky, CEO and...