NEWARK, NJ — Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, raised the rainbow flag on June 1 in celebration of Pride Month. Newark Beth Israel’s employee business resource group, PRIDE — Providing Respect, Inclusion, Dignity and Empowerment — hosted the annual event, supported by the Office of […]
NEWARK, NJ — Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, has named Dr. Joshua J. Lee as the new director of lung transplant for its Advanced Lung Diseases and Transplant Program, the only lung transplant program in the state of New Jersey. Lee brings more than 10 years of expertise in pulmonary medicine […]
NEWARK, NJ — The advanced heart failure treatment and transplant team at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center celebrated New Jersey’s longest-living person on a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD, a mechanical heart pump. Mayra Rodriguez, 42, from Union County, celebrated her 14th anniversary living with an Abbott HeartMate II LVAD, which helps the heart […]
NEWARK, NJ — Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, has opened a new comprehensive geriatric unit, consisting of 24 private rooms, spanning two floors of the hospital and being specifically outfitted to meet the unique needs of older adult patients. “This new unit is part of our ongoing commitment to delivering world-class […]
NEWARK, NJ — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently awarded Newark Beth Israel Medical Center its platinum-level recognition for the hospital’s efforts to increase enrollment in the New Jersey state organ donor registry and spread the lifesaving message of organ and tissue donation awareness. “Newark Beth Israel is honored to receive this […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey President and CEO Darrell K. Terry Sr. received the 2022 President’s Award from the NAACP of the Oranges & Maplewood. The branch hosted its 109th annual Thurgood Marshall Freedom Fund Gala at Cedar Hill Golf & Country Club in Livingston on […]
TRENTON, NJ — Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor announced April 8 the arrest of a Newark doctor on charges of forgery, obtaining a controlled dangerous substance by fraud and health care claims fraud. The arrest was the result of an investigation by the Office of the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Eight RWJBarnabas Health facilities have been recognized and redesignated as “Leaders in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality” and two RWJBarnabas Health facilities received new designations by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. The […]
NEWARK, NJ — Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, has been designated one of the world’s best hospitals by Newsweek. This is the fourth-consecutive recognition for Newark Beth Israel. Newark Beth Israel ranked among the top 250 U.S. hospitals and is one of only five New Jersey hospitals on this prestigious list, […]
NEWARK, NJ — Dr. Sari Jacoby has been appointed as the new medical director of the Dr. Frederick B. Cohen Comprehensive Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility and a clinical component of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s only National Cancer Institute–designated comprehensive cancer […]