Inspira Achieves American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet® Re-designation

Inspira Medical Centers Elmer and Vineland, and Health Center Bridgeton attained American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recognition. Announced on November 29, 2023, the program is the highest national honor for professional nursing practice and distinguishes health care organizations that meet rigorous standards for nursing excellence. Less than 10% of all U.S. hospitals have earned […]

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Big Brothers Big Sisters Receives Neighborhood Grant

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cumberland & Salem Counties has received a $10,000 neighborhood grant from Rite Aid Healthy Futures to continue advancing its important mission focused on creating and supporting one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Part of its overall Empowering Children signature initiative for Rite Aid Healthy Futures,

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HCE Offers Employment Opportunities to Persons with Disabilities

Hudson Community Enterprises (HCE) recently expanded to southern New Jersey by opening a location in Vineland. Building upon its six decades of offering employment opportunities to persons with disabilities, the opening of a physical presence here will provide enhanced services to clients who need document shredding and building maintenance services. “We realized last year that

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New Veterans Center To Open in Vineland

The Department of Veterans Affairs recently announced the addition of three new Vet Centers and six Vet Center Outstations (smaller satellite locations) to improve access to counseling for veterans and service members. Vet Centers are community-based counseling centers that provide a wide range of social and psychological services, including no-cost professional counseling to eligible veterans,

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College Aces

Several Rowan College of South Jersey (RCSJ) students had a unique opportunity to experience life at Princeton University this past summer. Rachel Kustera, Grace Sacco, Angelina Bruner, and Elenna Bernard were selected to participate in the Ivy League school’s pilot Transfer Scholars Initiative (TSI). The RCSJ students were among 40 scholars from seven New Jersey

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Looking at Glass

Did you know that America’s first successful glassworks was started in 1739 by Caspar Wistar, a German immigrant, in the tiny town of Alloway in Salem County? Yes, glassmaking had been attempted previously in other regions, such as Jamestown, Virginia, but it took a visionary who saw that South Jersey had everything he needed to

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Waste Not

Last December Stanford University’s Recycling Center Peninsula Sanitary Service, Inc. (PSSI, a private Corp.) released statistics noting that our waste increases by 25 percent between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. PSSI reports, “The extra waste amounts to 25 million tons of garbage—about 1 million tons per week!” After that downer here is some fun information: If

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Knock Out Opioid Abuse

Angelo Valente, Executive Director of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey, with, from left, Salem County Prosecutor Kristin Telsey, Acting Gloucester County Prosecutor Christine Hoffman, and Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae. At a joint press event hosted at Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill, the three prosecutors announced an initiative to fight the statewide opioid

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