Mayor Healy Requests President Obama Intervene to Stop Spectra Pipeline: Citing President Obama’s decision to postpone the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, Mayor Jerramiah Healy has crafted a letter to the White House requesting a similar executive intervention in Jersey City’s fight to re-route Spectra Energy’s proposed natural gas pipeline. Mayor Healy Announces Nomination for [...]
Four months after the Healy administration first proposed closing Jersey City’s Preventive Medicine Clinic and outsourcing all of its functions to the private nonprofit Horizon Health Center, the Downtown clinic remains open and the jobs of the 14 health workers slated to be laid off are safe — for now.
- Outsourcing the Free STD Clinic: Officials with Horizon Health Center, which is set to take over Jersey City’s free STD clinic, told anxious City Council members yesterday they plan to offer “comprehensive” health care at the clinic. As we’ve reported, there are serious concerns that Horizon doesn’t offer the same level of care that [...]
The Healy administration’s plan to close Jersey City’s Preventive Medicine Clinic and outsource all of its functions to the private nonprofit Horizon Health Center has been held up once again, as new questions have arisen about how many entities can apply for a state grant to fund part of the services. The latest snag in the plan also comes as several clinic workers have filed formal appeals of their layoffs with the state Civil Service Commission.
The administration’s plan to close Jersey City’s Preventive Medicine Clinic is on hold for at least for another 30 days, Council President announced at Wednesday night’s City Council meeting. The plan to close the clinic has been hotly contested, with a number of council members questioning both the idea of closing the free clinic and [...]
After previously telling JCI that the city was opting not to apply for a state grant that used to cover part of the Preventive Medicine Clinic’s expense, officials have reversed course, deciding to apply for the $75,000 grant.
It’s not often that not applying for a grant is considered newsworthy, but the Healy administration’s decision not to apply for a $75,000 state grant that in previous years helped fund Jersey City’s Preventive Medicine Clinic has raised the hackles of one councilman, who says the move subverts the City Council’s role in the city’s budget-making process.
As questions continue to dog the Healy administration over its plan to bridge the budget gap in part by closing Jersey City’s Preventive Medicine Clinic, city officials are defending the clinic’s closure, arguing that the services previously provided there can be found elsewhere in the city.
Blood samples collected from residents living near the Garfield Avenue chromium site this February contained no detectable levels of hexavalent chromium — the same result as samples taken before cleanup work began, officials announced last week. The results show that exposure to dangerous toxins has not increased as PPG Industries, the Department of Environmental Protection [...]
Hudson County is the 16th healthiest of New Jersey’s 21 counties, according to a new study released this week by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. That’s a drop of two spots from its rank on 2010′s survey. The silver lining in that cloud of health news is [...]
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