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Ridgewood Resident Collecting Holiday Donations for Elderly Residents of Bergen Regional

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Hi Ridgewood,
I’m helping with a Holiday event at Bergen Regional hospital. Many (sadly most) of the elderly residents have no family and very few comforts. I’m collecting items to bring to make life a little better.

I spoke to the manager, we could really use these items for residents, male and female, ages 60-90:
NEW:
Socks
Underware
Bras (many female residents have none)
Throw blankets for the beds
Make up
Jewelry (can be dollar store stuff)
Headphones
Hairbrushes
Sweatpants/sweatshirts
Nightgowns

Are you upgrading your TV? Consider donating your old one, the facility supplies cable but residents need their own TV, many residents have nothing to watch in their rooms.

My address is 365 Gilbert St. I’ll put a rattan box on the porch or will come pick up stuff. Please share, and thank you!!

(I’m happy to do the shopping if anyone wants to donate gift cards as well).

ALL DONATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY DECEMBER 15th

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12 suitors line up to take reins of Bergen Regional

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BY COLLEEN DISKIN AND JAMES M. O’NEILL
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD

Twelve health care companies have expressed interest in taking over Bergen Regional Medical Center, including an overture from a coalition of local hospitals and a long-term-care facility.

County officials said the health care entities responded to a “request for qualifications” from those who might be interested in managing the county-owned, 1,000-bed hospital when the contract of its current for-profit operator expires next year.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/12-suitors-line-up-to-take-reins-of-bergen-regional-1.1619397

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Tedesco calls for explanation after report details assaults by patients at Bergen Regional

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015, 5:14 PM    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2015, 5:22 PM
BY TODD SOUTH
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

One day after a federal report showed workers at Bergen Regional Medical Center had faced waves of assaults by patients, Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco called for the county-owned hospital’s private management company to immediately explain the incidents and present a plan to fix the safety problems.

In a statement released Friday, Tedesco said he’d contacted the hospital and was scheduling a meeting with its management staff.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration findings, released Thursday, detailed cases in which at least eight hospital employees were attacked this year by patients.

As a result of the citations listed in the OSHA report the agency has recommended a $13,600 fine.

Patients had barricaded employees in rooms, punched a lab technician who was trying to draw blood, kicked and bitten a security guard and pushed a nurse to the floor while the nurse intervened during one patient’s attack on another patient, according to the report.

The hospital has been run for the past 15 years by a private management company through a contract with the Bergen County Improvement Authority, according to Tedesco’s release. The company’s contract expires in March 2017.

Tedesco said he was “alarmed” at the OSHA citations of the “private management company for failing to protect the hospital’s employees.”

https://www.northjersey.com/news/tedesco-calls-for-explanation-after-report-details-assaults-by-patients-at-bergen-regional-1.1404133