From NJ Spotlight, July 14, 2015 Persistent violations of state regulations by Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center has led a hospital labor union official to accuse the state Department of Health of failing to hold Meadowlands, a for-profit hospital, accountable. …HPAE
From NJ Advamce Media for NJ.com, July 9, 2015 TRENTON — After slapping Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center with a series of fines for failing to turn over required audit reports with little effect, the state Health Department is moving to
From The Nation, July 8, 2015 The classic line of the friendly white-capped nurse of hospital lore is “This won’t hurt a bit.” For the real life nurses caring for patients every day, however, their job is often a world
From NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, July 8, 2015 TRENTON — A year after state Health Commissioner Mary O’Dowd proposed a battery of changes that would require hospitals to disclose financial information to the public, she has not taken any
From NJ Spotlight, July 7, 2015 While Gov. Chris Christie’s latest proposal to reduce government spending on public-employee healthcare has stalled, a pilot program with the same goal backed by Senate President Stephen Sweeney is moving forward. A vote yesterday
July 6, 2015 RNs at Shore Medical Center in Somers Point, NJ will be conducting informational picketing at the hospital on Saturday, July 11, 11 am to 1 pm. The RNs, who are represented by the New York State Nurses
From the New York Times, July 3, 2015 The health insurer Aetna said on Friday that it had agreed to acquire its smaller rival Humana for $37 billion in cash and stock, signaling the start of what may become a
From NJBIZ, July 1, 2015 CarePoint Health and the union representing 1,250 nurses and other health care workers at its Bayonne and Jersey City hospitals have reached a tentative agreement on a contract, the union said Wednesday. The contract talks
From the Jersey Journal, June 30, 2015 A tentative contract agreement was reached tonight between CarePoint Health hospitals in Bayonne and Jersey City and the union representing 1,250 nurses and healthcare workers. The agreement between the hospitals and the Health
From NJ Spotlight, June 29, 2015 Nonprofit hospitals across New Jersey could be liable for millions of dollars in annual property taxes, under a ruling by a tax-court judge that highlighted the difficulty in separating the charitable and for-profit activities