BY Capt. Tim Davis, M.D., Chief Medical Officer

National Disaster Medical System 

Sewell, NJ – The Kennedy Cancer Center has been named a Screening Center of Excellence by the Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) for its ongoing commitment to responsible lung cancer screening. Kennedy is one of only eight LCA Screening Centers of Excellence in New Jersey; there are 355 nationwide. 

LCA-designated Screening Centers of Excellence are committed to providing clear information, complying with standards based on the most up-to-date published practices, working collectively as a multidisciplinary team, and referring patients who currently smoke to tobacco cessation programs.

Friday, August 21, 2015

Most individuals receive an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 1099, Miscellaneous Income, early each calendar year as part of their annual tax return documentation. They normally hold the document for their tax return preparation and then file it away without thinking about it. Small business owners, too, must send 1099s to non-employees paid in the course of doing business. The New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJCPA) warns that many small business owners do not understand the requirements for issuing 1099s, and they can receive hefty fines and costly IRS audits if not complied with properly. 

TRENTON — Hundreds of thousands of public workers could continue to make higher contributions toward their health insurance premiums for several more years under a new ruling by the state agency that governs public employer-employee relations. The decision by the Public Employment Relations Commission delays when public employee unions can use contract negotiations to attempt to…

press release August 21, 2015

TRENTON – Responding to the growing need for support to fight Western wildfires, the Christie Administration is sending an additional 20 members of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service and New Jersey State Forestry Services to assist in the battling of wildfires that are raging across parts of the Northwest, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin announced today.

These members, who are expected to leave New Jersey over the weekend or early next week, will supplement 32 firefighters, including three wildfire truck crews, the Christie Administration dispatched more than week ago as part of a cooperative aid agreement with the U.S. Forest Service. 

08/20/15

The overwhelming majority of people who go into the health care industry do it because they want to help people. Unfortunately, there are also some unscrupulous individuals who do it because they think they can take advantage of the health care system for their own financial gain.

That’s just what happened in the case of an Oklahoma hospice executive. Paula Kluding, owner of Prairie View Hospice, Inc., located in Chandler, Oklahoma, submitted millions of dollars’ worth of fraudulent claims to the federal Medicare program. But after a thorough investigation by the FBI and our partners at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General, Kluding was convicted of Medicare fraud and other related charges at trial and was recently sentenced to a federal prison term. She was also ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution to Medicare.

press release August 21, 2015

Wayman Muse (DOB 11/7/93), of Camden, already facing sentencing in Camden on a handgun possession charge, today (8/21) was denied any reduction in his $100,000 bail on charges he and two others were involved in the armed robbery of a woman in Woodbury on 8/12/15.

 Although Muse denies having a gun or participating in the robbery, he led police to the location of the woman’s pocketbook, Assistant Gloucester County Prosecutor Joseph Enos told Superior Court Judge M. Christine Allen-Jackson in opposing lower bail. \”That shows his involvement,\” Enos said.

press release 

WOODBURY NJ– Facing aggravated assault and attempted murder charges in what was described as a brutal beating that left his wife on life support for 2 1/2 weeks, Byron Jenkins (7/30/69), of Glassboro NJ, was unsuccessful today (8/21) in a request for reduction of his $750,000 bail.

 Jenkins’ lawyer told Superior Court Judge M. Christine Allen-Jackson he filed a \”time-in\” bail reduction request because his client had been jailed since the 6/13/15 incident and the machine operator’s financial ability to post bail had worsened because of his incarceration. He also wanted to learn when Jenkins case would be presented to a grand jury.

By Mark Lagerkvist / August 21, 2015 /

New Jersey Working Families, BlueWaveNJ, New Jersey Citizen Action and six individual plaintiffs filed the suit Friday in Mercer County Superior Court. The complaint alleges Christie violated his fiduciary duty by failing to reimburse the State Treasury for the bills incurred by the state police Executive Protection Unit during his frequent political trips.