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May 31, 2020 New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund Partners with Connect for COVID-19 to Help Keep Saint Barnabas Medical Center Patients Connected Maternity Care

Pictured, from left, are Barry H. Ostrowsky, President and CEO, RWJBarnabas Health; Stephen P. Zieniewicz, FACHE, President and CEO, Saint Barnabas Medical Center; Shivraj Sandhu, National Lead at Digital Health Connectivity Project; Maggie Lundberg, MSN, ...

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Apr 25, 2020 Coping in the NICU and With the Stress of COVID-19 Maternity Care

The following was prepared by the Saint Barnabas Medical Center NICU Family Advisory Council for their Spring 2020 Newsletter : For years NICU parents, like you, have been practicing excellent handwashing and “social distancing,” in the form of limiting ...

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Mar 17, 2020 Pregnancy and COVID-19 Maternity Care

Richard C. Miller, MD, FACOG, Chair of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School Are pregnant women more at risk of getting COVID-19? The ...

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Feb 21, 2020 Having a Cold While Pregnant? A Local Physician Shares What to Do and How to Ease Your Symptoms While Keeping Your Baby Safe Maternity Care

Michael Straker, MD, Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, NJ Belleville, NJ - Over-the-counter remedies for the symptoms of a common cold— sneezing, coughing, congestion, a sore throat—are easy to find. But if ...

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Feb 4, 2020 A Heart-Healthy Pregnancy Maternity Care

When you add a baby to your family, your heart doubles in size to hold all of that love. While this sentiment is not factually accurate, pregnancy does put an additional strain on your heart and circulatory system (as well as many other body parts). ...

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Jan 22, 2020 RWJBarnabas Health Recognizes New Jersey's Third Annual Maternal Health Awareness Day Maternity Care

RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH) marked Thursday, January 23, 2020, across its system as the third annual statewide observance of Maternal Health Awareness Day . In 2017, New Jersey became the first state in the nation to designate a day calling for action to ...

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Jan 15, 2020 Making Maternity Safer Maternity Care

A Focus on Women's Health Before, During and After Pregnancy Aims to Save Lives. “I don’t feel well,” said Tara Hansen, 29, of Wanamassa, shortly after giving birth to her son in 2011. But her healthcare providers considered her a healthy postpartum ...

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Jan 14, 2020 Jersey City Medical Center and Lord Abbett Deliver New Family-centric Maternity Wing Maternity Care

With close to a hundred guests comprising hospital executives and medical leadership, key donors and community partners, and elected officials in attendance, Jersey City Medical Center officially opened the Lord Abbett Maternity Wing at a ribbon-cutting ...

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Jan 9, 2020 Opioids: How to Reduce Use Maternity Care

A new post-surgery practice means many mothers don’t need opioids after c-sections. When Karen Hanlon, 38, of Caldwell, gave birth to her first son, Henry, now almost 3 years old, opioids were a common form of pain relief at hospitals across the country. ...

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