An acquisition, collaboration and licensing arrangement will bolster the company's work.

What we do over the coming weeks and months, writes Atlantic Health System's Brian Gragnolati, will determine whether we avoid a COVID-19 surge over the fall and winter.

RWJBarnabas Health CEO Barry Ostrowsky takes on how hospitals and policymakers should apply the knowledge gained in the fight against the outbreak moving forward.

Hackensack Meridian Health's Robert Garrett on the lessons health care systems can learn from COVID-19 as executives navigate the road ahead.

Recent reports have documented the monumental financial calamity from reduced revenues and increased spending at hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How elective surgery procedures, which were allowed to restart on May 26, will be carried out in New Jersey during the pandemic.

“Although many therapies based on provisional data have been proposed for patients who suffer from COVID-19, known treatments are limited,” said Octapharma USA President Flemming Nielsen in a prepared statement. “Intravenous immunoglobulin, which consists of pooled IgG preparations from thousands of donors, has been used to treat patients with immune-mediated diseases for almost 40 years."

Elsewhere, The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation said May 20 that it made 54 donations totaling about $240,000 to Bergen County organizations from its COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund and Novo Nordisk provided a grant to the Diabetes Foundation.

Patients in their cars will be provided with a test kit and instructions and a pharmacy employee will observe the self-swab diagnostic to ensure it is done properly.

The New Jersey site, one of the state's six original alternative treatment centers, would mark the fifth location for the multi-state, vertically integrated buyer.

See which seven locations are offering the appointment-only drive-thru diagnostics.

“Readily accessible testing is a critical component of a four-pronged public health strategy – including rigorous contact tracing, isolation of confirmed cases, and quarantine," said CDC Director Robert Redfield.