For Hackensack Meridian, Carrier Clinic merger is just the start   

For Hackensack Meridian, Carrier Clinic merger is just the start

The ink hasn’t dried on the deal that created Hackensack Meridian Health Carrier Clinic on Thursday, but Hackensack Meridian Health CEO Robert Garrett and Carrier President Don Parker are already looking at the next step in the merger. “It really sets the stage for the next phase,” Parker told ROI-NJ. “It is beyond urgent care, it is beyond a string of drug and alcohol facilities. (It is) the connection for antecedents to health care and will those social determinants be addressed in a health care fashion.” Parker said the merger could not happen soon enough. “Talk about a scattered industry,” he said. “If you think about all the different parties that are working on social determinant issues — and none of us very well — someone needs to organize that. Because, if you go to the countries that have low-cost health care, they have a strategy for social determinants. We have been separated from health care for decades now, and we’ve got to push them back together now.”

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