A Bell 206 aircraft left from Downtown Manhattan Heliport at 2:59 p.m. It vanished from radar at 3:25. Minutes later, wreckage hit the river near Jersey City.

The family of two adults and three children, visiting from Spain, was on an aerial tour along the Hudson River.

The cause of the accident has not been determined at this time, as mentioned in a late afternoon press conference.

Two children who were occupants of the helicopter were brought to Jersey City’s Medical Center and later died.

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          Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said that she was “very excited” about this pilot program, which will operate initially two days a week in Bayonne with Hudson County Sheriffâ€s Officers and mental health professionals. 

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Like many in the medical profession in New Jersey, Dr. Deven Unadkat is concerned about the growing number of positive COVID-19 cases in New Jersey, especially in Hudson County.

Since flattening out over the summer, the number of new positive COVID-19 cases has been steadily climbing. On August 28, Hudson Countyâ€s seven-day average was 17. This week, the seven-day average rose to 249.

But Dr. Unadkat, the chair and medical director of the Emergency Medicine at Jersey City Medical Center, also sees a ray of hope.

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Stefan Balan, MD is the director of Oncology Services at Jersey City Medical Center. He is board certified in medical oncology and internal medicine. We sat down with Dr. Balan for a one-on-one discussion about his background, why he chose to practice at JCMC and what he sees for the future of oncology services at the hospital.

Q: You have an interesting background. You did a medical fellowship in hematology and oncology at New York University, then you left the big city for Vermont and quickly found yourself in academia at an Ivy League medical school. How has your journey influenced your practice?

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Jersey City, NJ, October 12, 2020 – Jersey City Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, recently opened a new physical therapy and rehabilitation practice in Newport. In addition to physical therapy services, the Newport location offers convenient, close to home access to the hospitalâ€s leading orthopedic program at the same location.

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Jersey City, NJ – Paul Vega remembers exactly what he was doing when the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center as if it were yesterday. Except it was 19 years ago this month.

Vegas was driving an ambulance, with a patient he picked up a few minutes earlier, to Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC), where he was employed as an EMT. 

He recalls seeing smoke billowing from the tower, but his two-way radio wasnâ€t working, and he had no idea what had happened. Like many people in the initial moments after the tower was struck, Vega thought it was an accident – a small plane or news helicopter that had collided with the building.

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 Six RWJBarnabas Health facilities were awarded with “A” Hospital Safety Score ratings by the Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits.  Among the A-rated hospitals is Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, which received its 17^th straight “A” and Monmouth Medical Center which is the only hospital in the southern region to receive an “A” for 11 consecutive rating periods. In addition to Saint Barnabas Medical Center and Monmouth Medical Center, the RWJBarnabas Health facilities who also received an “A” include Monmouth Medical Center, Southern Campus, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Hamilton, and RWJUH Somerset. Community Medical Center, Jersey City Medical Center, RWJUH New Brunswick and RWJUH Rahway all received a “B” rating.

The spring scores mark Saint Barnabas Medical Center’s 17th A-rating in a row. Saint Barnabas Medical Center is the only hospital in the state and one of only 32 in the country to earn an “A” in each report since the Leapfrog Surveys began.

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