Meteor access mongodb by name server side - javascript

I am fairly new to Meteor and trying to code my first bigger Meteor application. I am using the Meteor synced cron package to access an API in specific time intervals. Everything is working fine. But I want to access the cronHistory collection which is maintained by the **Synced cron package* The name of the collection is 'cronHistory'. Is there a way to get a reference to this database on the server side ?
Something like:
import { Mongo } from 'meteor/mongo';
//Not working because collection already exists. I only want to get the collection by name, not creating a new one.
export default CronHistory = new Meteor.Collection('cronHistory');
I already found a lot of suggestions and implementations, but all of them were intended to access the mongodb from the client side.
Anyone have some suggestions ?

There is no supported way to access collections by name on the server. You can, however, access the SyncedCron collection simply by SyncedCron._collection.

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