The funding will support 24 health centers.

Food banks, hospitals and the state of New Jersey benefited from this round of corporate philanthropy.

“We don’t take this step lightly, but the crisis in our long-term care facilities requires us to take it,” Gov. Phil Murphy said. Last month, 17 were found dead at the facility in what was described as a makeshift morgue; a total of 66 have died there overall from COVID-19.

The Technology Business Tax Certificate Transfer Program enables approved technology and biotechnology businesses to sell their unused Net Operating Loss Carryovers and unused R&D Tax Credits to unaffiliated, profitable corporate taxpayers in the state.

“New Brunswick has always been a laboratory, a test bed for public-private partnerships that have impact on the quality of life for people who live, study, discover, and work in our city,” said DEVCO President Chris Paladino. “It’s a partnership that will have a major impact on the lives of every New Jerseyan."

Leo Bridgewater’s testimony in front of a New Jersey Senate Committee to have PTSD include in the state's Medical Marijuana Program resulted in its addition in September 2016. "This process, it’s uncomfortable, but you have to be willing to be open to it," Bridgewater said. "If I hope to be a help to some people that I know are going through the same things as I am, and even worse than me ... in the grand scheme of things, it’s such a small sacrifice."

The company expects the treatment to be available to patients in the coming days.

The facilities are also the subject of potential criminal investigations as they account for more than half the state’s COVID-19 deaths.

TeleBrands Corp. offers $450K in hand sanitizer; WHP Global, White Castle feed frontline workers.

“I certainly understand that for many of these facilities, this was the equivalent of a 500-year flood, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't examine how folks responded when those floodwaters started rising,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said Tuesday at the governor’s daily COVID-19 press briefing in Trenton.

According to the company, in the United States, statistics show the pandemic is disproportionately impacting communities and under-represented groups.

“We cannot afford to have otherwise qualified health care professionals sidelined during the COVID-19 crisis waiting for an opportunity to take the exams they need to become licensed,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said Tuesday in a statement.