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Mariekarl Vilceus-Talty, Senior Director of Nursing and Patient Experience, Nursing Administration, was among the first group of JCMC employees to be given the COVID-19 vaccine.
As vaccines for COVID-19 roll out in Hudson County, the virus continues to surge in North Hudson municipalities.
Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen was the first hospital in the county to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, administering it to frontline healthcare workers on Dec. 18. Jersey City Medical Center gave the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to employees beginning on Dec. 21.
CarePoint Health’s three hospitals, Bayonne Medical Center, Hoboken University Medical Center and Christ Hospital began administering the Moderna vaccine to employees on Dec. 21 and 22. Hudson Regional Hospital in Secaucus began distributing the Moderna vaccine to employees on Dec. 22.
Here are N.J.’s safest hospitals. See how yours fared in new national report.
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, N.J. is the only hospital in the state to receive straight-A s in the Leapfrog safety report card since the surveys began in 2012.
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New Jersey hospitals rank 17th best in the nation for safety, a drop from eighth place a year ago and a potentially troubling sign as the pandemic continues to make unrelenting demands on healthcare professionals, according to the latest Leapfrog Hospital Safety report card.
Six hospitals went up a grade while 15 hospitals went down a grade, according to an analysis by the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, a consumer, research nonprofit that jointly releases the report with Leapfrog.