{"id":14030,"date":"2019-09-13T11:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T15:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14030"},"modified":"2019-09-13T11:08:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T15:08:57","slug":"new-jersey-hospital-offers-lyft-rides-to-transport-patients-to-medical-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14030","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey hospital offers Lyft rides to transport patients to medical appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jackie Drees for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>University Hospital patients will soon be able to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/njbiz.com\/university-hospital-partners-hitch-health-drive-patients-appointments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use<\/a> Lyft to receive free rides to and from their appointments.<\/p>\n<p>The Newark, N.J.-based health system will begin rolling out the transportation service, at no cost to patients, for appointments at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey at University Hospital and the internal medicine or pediatric medicine departments at its ambulatory care center in Newark.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/healthcare-information-technology\/new-jersey-hospital-offers-lyft-rides-to-transport-patients-to-medical-appointments.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dreamstime_m_10158600speed-racing-race-car-fast-hurry-700x372.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9740\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dreamstime_m_10158600speed-racing-race-car-fast-hurry-700x372-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dreamstime_m_10158600speed-racing-race-car-fast-hurry-700x372-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dreamstime_m_10158600speed-racing-race-car-fast-hurry-700x372-390x205.jpg 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dreamstime_m_10158600speed-racing-race-car-fast-hurry-700x372.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jackie Drees for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) University Hospital patients will soon be able to\u00a0use Lyft to receive free rides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14031,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14030\/revisions\/14031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}