When the coronavirus pandemic descended upon University Hospital in Newark last year, nothing could have prepared its employees for what would soon become a call for unprecedented, timely decisions, shortages of protective equipment...
With recent headlines highlighting racial and ethnic differences in outcomes from the coronavirus pandemic, awareness is rising about the impact healthcare inequities, racial discrimination, disparate opportunities and limited access have on minority populations.
As a new employee at University Hospital within the past year, HPAE would like to invite you to a meeting to educate you on the benefits of being a member of the Health Professionals and Allied Employees or “HPAE” as
New studies show that, even as cases of COVID-19 surged in the general population, infections among vaccinated health care workers dropped significantly.
HPAE has scheduled membership meetings tomorrow, Wednesday, March 24th at 9:30 am and 8:30pm via zoom.
After years of underfunding, we applaud Governor Murphy and Treasurer Muoio for taking strides to invest in NJ's public health infrastructure. Our state can no longer afford to neglect infectious disease prevention programs.
Covid-19 has taken an outsized toll on Black and Hispanic Americans – and those disparities extend to medical workers
Beniquez was the first of 80 healthcare workers slated to receive their first dose of the vaccine at University Hospital on Tuesday, the beginning of the state’s latest chapter in fighting a virus that has killed more than 17,000 of
Healthcare workers have faced greater risks and rates of exposure throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. We are grateful that an HPAE nurse, working in the Emergency Room at University Hospital, was the first to be vaccinated in New Jersey.
The worst pandemic in a century has ravaged Newark and its Black community. It was a tragedy decades in the making.
University Hospital in Newark – the only state-owned hospital and one of three Level One trauma centers in New Jersey – said Tuesday it finalized a contract deal with nine separate unions representing a combined 3,300 employees.
There were 300 patients being treated for Covid-19, filling hospital rooms and spilling out into the halls of the emergency room. The trauma center, once used for gunshot wounds and car crash victims, was now filled with people on ventilators.