“The scope of staff sickness, absence and deaths at New Jersey hospitals due to COVID-19 remains unknown nine months into the pandemic, despite concerns that a reduced workforce may hamper the hospitals’ ability to absorb a rising wave of sick patients.
Hospitals in New Jersey are not required to publicly report the number of COVID-19 diagnoses — or deaths — among their staff. That contrasts with nursing homes and schools, for whom the state posts detailed reports daily on a data dashboard available to the public.
"But in recent weeks, several staff outbreaks have come to light:
- More than 100 health care workers were reported sick with COVID-19 at Ocean Medical Center in Brick.
- Some 30 to 40 others were sidelined at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen.
- Another outbreak was reported to have sickened staff of an intensive care unit at Jersey Shore Medical Center.
- A hospital worker in Bergen County was blamed by a Westwood nursing home operator as the source of a cluster of cases among several of the home’s residents.
- And the state Department of Health consulted with Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood on "potential transmission within their facility," a spokeswoman said, after reports that an outbreak at Dellridge Health & Rehabilitation in Paramus may have originated there.”
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