Located across the street from the hospital, a renovated two-bedroom home will provide housing for 18 - 24 months for an individual or family in Somerset County who has a chronic or acute health condition that causes financial hardship and leaves them unable to afford housing and/or the basic cost of living.

Under a bill Gov. Phil Murphy signed Monday, New Jerseyans who volunteered at Ground Zero are now eligible for accidental disability pension coverage – a benefit long denied to them.

The company said that it looks forward to making the treatment available by prescription in the coming weeks.

New Jersey is an expensive state, but there are ways to control health care costs.

Driven by demographics – mainly, graying baby boomers – home-based health care is a growth industry in New Jersey. Consider the hiring statistics: the state’s share of home health care employment is “meaningfully greater” than the national rate, according to a late 2018 report by the Department of Labor & Workforce Development; and more than half of all the job postings for licensed practical nurses in New Jersey were tied to a single employer, according to a 2017 study by the New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing.

Since 2014, Albert Saad, a lawyer, former investment banker and real-estate developer, has opened four urgent care centers in Central New Jersey as an American Family Care franchisee, with plans to open at least four more in the next four or so years, as the facilities seek to fill a gap in the health care system.

The new type of family medicine offers greater access and more in-depth visits to patients who opt in for a monthly membership fee of $125; their insurance is not be billed and there are no co-pays or deductibles.

Dr. Shereef Elnahal will take over as president and chief executive officer of University Hospital in Newark on July 22. He recently met with the NJBIZ editorial staff to discuss the state of health care in New Jersey and his new challenge leading a major inner-city hospital.

Co-principal investigators Rahi Abouk and David Powell are exploring whether mandated electronic prescribing helps to reduce inappropriate use, abuse and overdoses.

Jean Jordan will work closely with all members of the Patricia Lynch Cancer Center team, the Breast Center, the hospital's physician network and other members of the medical staff.