[11] The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services approved the decision of Memorial Hospital of Salem County on April 1, 2014.

As a condition of the closure, the hospital was still required to transport patients to other inpatient maternity services, or provide emergency stabilization to women arrive pregnant, and delivery in cases where birth is imminent.

He said that the city council was legally obligated to fulfill duties as the de facto Board of Health, and hold one annual meeting.

[15][16] In late October 2018 the department sent a team of infection control experts and epidemiologists to several pediatric healthcare facilities in the state to "assess infection-control procedures and to train staff," after deaths in the 2018 United States adenovirus outbreak at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation.

[21] On July 12, 2021, Governor Phil Murphy announced that New Jersey residents with a valid email address or phone number on-file with New Jersey Immunization Information System (NJIIS) could access a digital replacement copy of their COVID-19 immunization record using the Docket app in partnership with New York-based Docket Health, Inc.[22] The NJ Department of Health is further divided into the following divisions and offices within New Jersey state government: The department sometimes releases its own studies, and comments on other studies that use its data.