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RWJBarnabas Health Raising Awareness for National Donate Life Month
Margarita Camacho, MD, Spearheads Systemwide Support for Life-Saving Donation; Dr. Camacho Soon to Reach Milestone 650 Heart Transplants
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WEST ORANGE, N.J., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/
RWJBarnabas Health, the largest, most comprehensive academic health care system in New Jersey, is supporting National Donate Life month in April by raising awareness of organ donation within the communities it serves. At Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Heart Transplant Program has transplanted over 1,100 healthy hearts, a milestone made possible only through the aid of organ donors and their families.
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The limits on visitors remain in most Garden State hospitals, as the pandemic s second wave has kept them in the red zone. (Ashley Ludwig/Patch)
NEW JERSEY - The limits on visitors remain in most Garden State hospitals, as the COVID-19 pandemic s second wave has kept them in the red zone.
Months ago, hospitals across the state in adopting visitation guidelines from the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA). This standardized policy for hospital visitation provides color codes based on the level of virus risk (virus risk is determined by COVID-19 levels in the community, the level of COVID-19 patients at each hospital, staffing levels, and inventories of PPE supplies).