The New York State SARS-CoV-2 Testing Consortium: Regional Communication in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, created an unprecedented need for comprehensive laboratory testing of populations, in order to meet the needs of medical practice and to guide the management and functioning of our society. With the greater New York metropolitan area as an epicenter of this pandemic beginning in March 2020, a consortium of laboratory leaders from the assembled New York academic medical institutions was formed to help identify and solve the challenges of deploying testing. This report brings forward the experience of this consortium, based on the real-world challenges which we encountered in testing patients and in supporting the recovery effort to reestablish the health care workplace.

Excellence in action: developing and implementing a fall prevention program.

The University Medical Center at Princeton has been a leading teaching hospital for more than 30 years. Established in 1919, University Medical Center at Princeton is committed to redefining care by continually enhancing the quality of the care provided and improving the health of the communities served. University Medical Center at Princeton, in collaboration with the Hill-Rom Clinical Excellence Team, designed, implemented, and monitored a new fall prevention program.