PATERSON, NJ [March 12, 2009]- On Wednesday, March 12th, a team from St. Joseph's, led by William McDonald, President and CEO, St. Joseph's Healthcare System, traveled to Washington, DC to present the innovative care directives to benefit our wounded warriors that were developed during the International Conference on Behavioral Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

PATERSON, NJ [April 15, 2009] - An estimated 1,000 lives could be saved each year if heart attack patients received faster emergency care during and immediately after a heart attack. Recognizing that each minute lost could mean the difference between saving a life ... and losing it, Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) first responders from St. Joseph's Healthcare System have begun implementing therapeutic cooling in the pre-hospital setting, thereby making St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center this region's first hospital to perform the life-saving measure in the field.

PATERSON, NJ [February 11, 2009]- St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center (SJRMC) in Paterson, NJ has received the Gold Performance Achievement Award for its achievement in implementing the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) "Get With The Guidelines" (GWTG) quality initiatives for Stroke.

Despite a distance of more than a thousand miles, staff at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, in Memphis, Tenn., and St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, in Paterson, N.J., simultaneously reviewed diagnostic images from patients at the joint launch of the hospitals' new telemedicine equipment, making them the first two medical institutions in the country to employ this form of high-definition technology.

The high-definition telemedicine video conferencing equipment allows St. Jude and St. Joseph's to confer and view CT scans as well as MRI and nuclear medical imaging with more clarity than ever before and in real time. Both facilities received the equipment, made by Polycom, Inc., through a donation from Medical Missions for Children, a nonprofit organization that uses the latest advances in communication for the transfer of medical knowledge.