[caption id="attachment_460" align="alignleft" width="300"] Staff at Specialty Hospital of Central Jersey[/caption] Murphy’s law is a popular adage that typically states, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." Yes, accidents happen beyond our control. Illnesses happen, too. As they occur, there’s one place you can rely...
[caption id="attachment_1386" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo Credit: Brown University[/caption] Brown University Researchers have utilized computational models to design a new viscoelastic patch to reduce damage to heart tissue after a heart attack. They utilized a special blend of starch to help provide mechanical support to the heart...
[caption id="attachment_1377" align="alignleft" width="300"] Smiling Nurse January 30, 2004[/caption] During National Nurses Week, from May 6-12, the Specialty Hospital of Central Jersey celebrates the professionalism and significant contributions of the Long Term Acute Care Hospital’s (LTACH) registered nurses to the quality of care provided to our...
With one in five hospital patients across the nation requiring continuous medical care after discharge – a number likely to grow with the graying of the population and the burden of chronic illnesses rises – a multipronged approach is essential to helping these patients and...
[caption id="attachment_1352" align="alignleft" width="300"] Antibiotics being poured from a pill bottle into a hand. Photo Credit: gov.uk[/caption] Patients seen in emergency departments were twice as likely to receive an antibiotic only when needed, compared to patients seen in outpatient clinics, according to a news study to...
The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will have sufficient funds to pay full benefits until 2026, according to the latest annual report from the Medicare Board of Trustees. That’s unchanged from last year’s report, which projected that the Medicare trust fund would become insolvent three...
[caption id="attachment_1333" align="alignleft" width="300"] Patients Working Out In Gym Photo Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention[/caption] Days ago, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced a $6 million, 3-year project designed to save lives by increasing the patient’s participation in their cardiac rehabilitation...
Simple outdoor activities, including gardening, strolling through a park, and even folding your clothes might be just enough to significantly lower the risk of cardiovascular disease among women age 63 and older, says a recently released study in the journal JAMA Network Open. The researchers noted...
[caption id="attachment_1289" align="alignleft" width="300"] Can an Aspirin a Day Help Prevent a Heart Attack? Photo Credit: FDA.gov[/caption] Two weeks ago, a commonly followed medical prevention strategy goes by the wayside. The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) primary recently released its prevention...
In today’s health care system, severely ill seniors are admitted to acute care hospitals for inpatient services for a relatively short stay. Long-Term Acute Care hospitals (LTACHs) fill the niche for those who require a longer hospital stay. The New Jersey-based Specialty Hospital of Central New...