Steps We Are Taking to Ensure Your Safety

If you are hesitant to seek in-person care, please know we are prepared. We have enhanced our processes to protect the safety of our patients, team members, and physicians, and our commitment to high-quality and compassionate care remains. Please know we have taken the following actions:

• Providing specially designated entrances at our hospitals for certain procedures and services.
• Monitoring the temperature of all patients, visitors, team members and physicians who enter our facilities.
• Rigorously cleaning and sanitizing all Hackensack Meridian facilities, including the use of ultra violet (UV) light cleaning and fogging. We have engaged a nationally recognized, third-party organization to oversee these significant efforts, including the testing of air, water and surfaces to make sure they’re safe for our patients and team members.
• Testing all patients staying at our hospitals.
• Providing masks to our patients, visitors, team members, and physicians and requiring them to wear the masks when at our Hackensack Meridian facilities.
• Ensuring our team members and physicians have the appropriate personal protective equipment.
• Practicing social distancing throughout our facilities and wherever possible.
• Restricting visitation at all of our hospitals and nursing and rehabilitation facilities, consistent with directives from the state of New Jersey.

Scientists around the world have been diligently working to find an effective and safe vaccine for COVID-19.

At Hackensack Meridian Health, our physicians and scientists are partnering with leading pharmaceutical companies and government entities to test a vaccine.

We are looking for volunteers from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds to participate in the trials.

Those interested in volunteering to be part of these trials can fill out the survey or call us at 551-996-5977.