Press Releases
By CARRIE CRISTELLO
September 16, 2024
NEW BRUNSWICK— RWJBarnabas Health, the largest, most comprehensive academic health care system in New Jersey, has appointed Dwight McBee, MBA, BSN, RN, CPXP, as Chief Patient Experience Officer. In this new role, Mr. McBee will be responsible for the advancement and integration of patient ...
Berkeley College student Arianna Santiago won second place in the WindowsWear 2024 Student Awards competition. WindowsWear is one of the largest online resources that showcases and recognizes creative fashion projects from students worldwide.Santiago is pursuing a Bachelor of Business ...
The Berkeley College School of Health Studies honored a new generation of healthcare heroes at their spring nurse pinning ceremony on Friday, August 2, 2024, at the Woodland Park, NJ campus. The ceremony recognized 38 graduates of the College’s Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to Bachelor of Science ...
LISC and Foot Locker, Inc., through the Foot Locker Foundation, are launching a fourth round of grants for the Foot Locker Foundation Community Empowerment Program, which funds nonprofit community organizations offering a range of services for young people, including health and wellness, education ...
East Orange—Precious Little Ladies Inc. (PLL) is excited to announce its new partnership with Thrive Causemetics, a leading beauty brand known for supporting women’s empowerment. Through PLL’s Girl We’ve Got You Covered (GWGYC) program, this partnership will provide beauty and self-care products to ...
SOMERVILLE, NJ, – Devin Alexander, renowned chef from NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” and cookbook author, will be the keynote speaker for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Somerset’s annual Breast Cancer Awareness Symposium, “Balancing Hormones and Losing BIG with Devin Alexander,” on ...
Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C. announced that 14 of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized by Best Lawyers® in 2025. For more than four decades, Best Lawyers has been regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence.“We are very proud to have so many of our attorneys ...
The staff at Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss, is pleased to welcome 15 new youth facilitators who participated in a 2-day training program in August. These high school-age volunteers will help create safe spaces for Imagine’s young participants who are grieving after losing someone close to ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ – Balpreet Grewal-Virk, RWJBarnabas Health Senior Vice President, Community Health, has been honored as a recipient of the 2024 NJBIZ Leading Women in Business award, which recognizes women who have made a significant impact on New Jersey. The honorees will be celebrated at an event ...
LISC and Foot Locker, Inc., through the Foot Locker Foundation, are kicking off the fourth round of grants for the Foot Locker Foundation Community Empowerment Program. This initiative supports nonprofit organizations that provide various services for youth, such as health and wellness, education ...
New Brunswick – Rutgers Cancer Institute, the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center together with RWJBarnabas Health, have appointed Jonathan H. Sherman, MD, FAANS, FCNS, FACS as chief of Neurosurgical Oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute. Dr. Sherman is also ...
Maplewood, NJ – United Way of Greater Newark is thrilled to announce that Rent Party, a local nonprofit dedicated to fighting hunger in the Maplewood-South Orange community, will be a beneficiary of the upcoming Maplewood Fest Food Truck Festival. The event, which is set to take place on Saturday, ...
The city of Newark, West Ward Council Member Dupré L. Kelly, and the Fairmount Heights community celebrated the grand reopening of the Fairmount Heights Children’s Village Park, located at South 9th Street and 12th Avenue in Newark’s West Ward. This $1 million renovation project, funded by the ...
The Murphy Administration today highlighted the Residential Energy Assistance Payment (REAP) initiative, which will provide financial relief to thousands of eligible households, further advancing the Administration’s efforts to improve affordability across the Garden State. During the September ...
Share the News: @BerkeleyCollege #NewsBerkeley Berkeley College has named Lynn Stamatelatos as Director, Corporate and Community Relations, effective June 2024. In her new role, Stamatelatos oversees the Berkeley College Corporate Learning Partnership program in New Jersey, cultivating ...
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ — Readers have a new way to experience TAPinto's news and digital marketing platforms.You can now listen to local news in your town, in addition to reading it. It's an option to help anyone on the go, and improves accessibility and inclusivity for people with vision impairments ...
For so long, grief has been a taboo subject in our culture. But so many of us have experienced loss and we need safe spaces where our stories can be shared, and our experience can be named. The staff at Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss, are eager to work with community members to build ...
“I don’t like to sit down,” says Fosteen Brathwaite, 69, of Avenel, New Jersey. Before retiring nine years ago, she spent 26 years on her feet at a residential care facility for individuals with developmental disabilities. “I’m a hard worker, and I was always on my feet.” It wasn’t until she ...
SOMERVILLE – The 16th annual Steeplechase Distance Run will be held Sunday, Sept. 29 at Amsterdam School in Hillsborough and as a virtual event to raise funds for the Steeplechase Cancer Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Somerset. Coordinated by Somerset Health Care ...
For so long, grief has been a taboo subject in our culture. But so many of us have experienced loss and we need safe spaces where our stories can be shared, and our experience can be named. The staff at Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss, are eager to work with community members to build ...
Game On-Community Places to Play is a program introduced by The DICK’s Sporting Goods Foundation and LISC. This initiative provides both funding and technical support to community-based organizations focused on creating and renovating multi-use sports spaces for youth aged 6 to 24 in underserved ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - Rutgers Cancer Institute, the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, together with RWJBarnabas Health, has treated its 200th patient with CAR T-cell therapy, a type of immunotherapy that uses a patient’s own immune cells to fight ...
U.S. Veterans Magazine has named Berkeley College as a 2024 Top Veteran-Friendly School, recognizing the colleges and universities that best serve military and veteran students. More than 240 military-aligned students are enrolled at Berkeley College*. According to DiversityComm Media, the ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ -- When Jon’s daughter, Deja, was born, Jon was staying in a rooming house in Morristown, New Jersey, with several other adults. The NJ Division of Child Protection and Permanency was investigating the infant’s mother and gave Jon the green light to raise Deja at his current ...
Why It Might Be More Expensive for Homebuyers and How They Can Save Money Starting Aug. 17, 2024, new rules from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) will significantly alter the home buying process. According to a June 2024 Clever Real Estate study, only 36% of Americans are aware of ...
Game On-Community Places to Play is a program launched by The DICK’s Sporting Goods Foundation and LISC. This initiative offers both funding and technical support to community-based organizations dedicated to creating and renovating multi-use sports spaces for young people aged 6 to 24 in ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - Cancer programs at several RWJBarnabas Health facilities, in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute, the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, were recently granted Three-Year Accreditation from the American College of Surgeons Commission ...
NJBIZ recently recognized Michael Iris, EdD, Associate Vice President, Alumni Relations and Career Services, among its Forty Under 40, honoring professionals who are “shaping the economic future of New Jersey.” He is a resident of Randolph, NJ. Recipients will be recognized at a ceremony on ...
WEST ORANGE – At this year’s American Heart Association (AHA) 2024 New Jersey Heart Ball, three RWJBarnabas Health heart specialists with the Heart, Vascular, and Neuroscience service lines were recognized for their impressive achievements in the cardiovascular field at a June 14 award event at The ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ - RWJBarnabas Health - The Institute for Nursing Excellence hosted a systemwide “Mobile Experience Safety Summit” at its Livingston, NJ, location with Stryker, partners and a global leader in medical technologies. There were 6 cohorts throughout the day with a total of 90 RWJBarnabas ...