Health & Fitness
Coronavirus Discharges: Shore Medical Dances To 'Celebration'
Whenever a coronavirus-positive patient goes home, Shore Medical Center fires up the Kool & The Gang hit on its overhead sound system.
SOMERS POINT, NJ — The new coronavirus makes it difficult to "celebrate good times." But when a coronavirus patient gets discharged from Shore Medical Center, the hospital has good reason to do so.
Whenever a coronavirus patient gets discharged, Shore plays "Celebration" by Kool & The Gang on the overhead sound system.
The new tradition not only celebrates the patient's recovery process but also celebrates the clinical team's work. And it provides a brief, uplifting moment during the pandemic.
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Shore shared a video Monday of two employees dancing at the Emergency Department's registration desk.
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The Cape May County Health Department has reported 125 active coronavirus cases, 109 cleared off quarantine and 20 deaths as of 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Atlantic County reported 102 new cases and five more deaths Tuesday. The county is up to 835 cases, 127 cleared as recovered and 35 deaths.
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