Jersey City Mayor and Healthcare Leadership Unveil Screening System to Prepare for Potential Influx of Emergency Room Patients amid Covid-19 Pandemic

WHAT:          Mayor Fulop joins Christ Hospital healthcare professionals to officially open a new system set up in temporary structures outside of the hospital’s emergency room to prescreen walk-ins before they enter the hospital building through the ER.  This system will help streamline the admitting process by evaluating and identifying those who are infected with the coronavirus to ensure proper treatment, while safeguarding hospital employees from exposure and to better accommodate the expected increase in patients without inundating the emergency room.

WHEN:          March 19, 2020 at 12 p.m.

WHERE:        Christ Hospital Emergency Room Entrance

                        176 Palisade Ave

Jersey City, NJ 07306

(Parking available on site)

WHO:            Mayor Steven Fulop, City of Jersey City

                        Dr. Tucker Woods, Chief Medical Officer, Christ Hospital

                        Marie Duffy, Chief Hospital Executive, Christ Hospital

                        Stacey Flanagan, Director of Health & Human Services, City of Jersey City