As we noted in this morning’s News Roundup, the Puerto Rican Family Institute plans on using a $30,000 grant from the Horizon Foundation for New Jersey to fund its Diabetes Outreach program. But three other programs operating in Jersey City received grant money from the foundation as well as part of $1.9 million in grants [...]
- Hudson County judge Maurice Gallipoli is scheduled to hear arguments tomorrow on whether Hudson County violated the state’s pay to play law when it awarded a contract to Correctional Health Services for prison medical services. That company’s president, Geoffrey Perselay, donated $1,000 to Hudson County freeholder Anthony Romano on May 30, 2008. The contract [...]
Talk about timing. In our piece published on Friday that looked at Jersey City’s new needle exchange program, we noted that the main obstacle to the program (as well as other programs around the state) was funding, with no state funds appropriated to needle exchange under the pilot program and with a federal ban on [...]
On July 1, public health activists breathed a sigh of relief as Hyacinth AIDS Foundation launched Jersey City’s first-ever syringe access program. With little fanfare — a flyer pinned to a bulletin board — the Puerto Rican Family Institute, at 40 Journal Square, became the first vendor.
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