"Home visitations by nurses, social workers and other professionals are proven to improve the prenatal health, development, education and economic self-sufficiency of low-income children and families,” said Sen. Bob Menendez, who was a key architect of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program and is a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee.

With data on more than nine million of the region’s patients, and with 14,000 providers and nearly all Philadelphia-area hospitals participating in the exchange, the company is now steadily expanding services across the river to the Garden State.

Judge Thad Balkman of Cleveland County District Court in Norman, Okla. said the state had shown that J&J engaged in "misleading marketing and promotion of opioids" that met the definition of public nuisance under the relevant state law.

The New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services awarded the integrated primary and behavioral health service provider the financing to provide case management and peer recovery support to individuals coping with opioid use disorders in three northern New Jersey counties.

A proposal will be presented to the Essex County Board of Freeholders, Newark City Council and the ECIA Board of Commissioners for their review - each body has scheduled special meetings on Aug. 27 to consider the plan - if approved, funding should be available to the city later this fall.

Bristol-Myers Squibb previously announced the decision to divest the medication in connection with ongoing regulatory approval for the company’s pending merger with Celgene.

Anyone too young to remember the days when doctors made house calls can now experience something of what life was like in those bygone days – a home visit by a medical professional. But not a doctor. Valley Health is joining with a Denver-based company to provide mobile urgent care.

The beat goes on as large hospital systems in the Garden State continue to gobble up smaller systems and independent hospitals. These kinds of deals help to drive up medical costs, according to 2018 Congressional testimony by a Carnegie Mellon University economics professor. But some New Jersey experts disagree with that notion.

Robert C. Garrett knows how to make a deal. As president and CEO of the Hackensack University Health Network from November 2009 through July 2016, he expanded it through a series of acquisitions, partnerships and affiliations. Then in July 2016, he engineered a combination with Meridian Health to create Hackensack Meridian Health.

In July, Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation that adds New Jersey to the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC). The law enables registered nurses and licensed practical-vocational nurses who hold multistate credentials to legally work in about 30 member states without the time-consuming process of getting re-licensed. The measure was billed as a solution to the ...

Legislation that will revise penalties for drunk driving and expand the use of ignition interlock devices (IID), was signed into law on Friday by Gov. Phil Murphy. The bill, S-824, was sponsored by Senators Nicholas Scutari (D-22th) and Joseph Lagana (D-38th). An IID is a device that detects alcohol from breath samples it takes from ...

New Jersey joins more than 30 states that have enacted laws prohibiting gag clauses and at least 20 others that outlaw copay clawbacks.