N.J. hospitals are honored in U.S. News & World Report (newjerseynewsroom.com) But Hackensack University Medical Center didn't do badly. It was singled out for its geriatrics department and its heart/heart surgery department, the only hospital in New Jersey to receive two rankings in this year's publication. It was also only one of 152 hospitals to be ranked in the top 50 in a specialty.
Teen helps raise nearly $28,000 for Somerset Medical Center (mycentraljersey.com) Stephen Wurst has been trying to raise money in honor of his late mother, Laurie Parlin, for most of this year.