The new clinical affiliation will provide better access to clinical trials and subspecialized expertise for patients, particularly underserved ones.

The funding from the health care system marks the sixth made through its Bear's Den innovation program.

Hackensack Meridian Health announced it would expand Behavioral Health and Long Term Acute Care beds at the facility, which has served the community for more than 100 years.

The nationally ranked JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute has been based out of JFK Medical Center in Edison for 50 years.

With more than 25 years of experience in technology leadership working within the industry and with startups and multinational corporations, Kash Patel joins the system from Penn Medicine in Philadelphia.

Valarie McPherson was named the chief nursing officer for Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center in Glen Ridge. McPherson joins the 130-year-old institution from Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills in Los Angeles where she served as chief nursing executive, responsible for the strategic leadership of all nursing and patient care functions. According to her Aug. 17 hiring announcement, McPherson is credited with ...

There’s a pandemic within the COVID-19 outbreak in New Jersey and across the nation, writes Hackensack Meridian Health CEO Robert Garrett:" a record increase in fatal overdoses and a growing number of people struggling with mental illness and addiction. As health care providers, we need to approach this crisis with urgency and commit to expanding access to care, better coordinating care and innovating treatment."