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Hackensack Meridian Health is proud to announce that Project HEAL, a hospital-based violence intervention program based at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, received a $500,000 grant to expand services in the successful multi-disciplined program to address community, domestic, and gang-related violence.
“For now, big challenges remain, but change has already come and there is cause for optimism with a healthy dose of realism,” the authors write.
Urologic oncologists at Hackensack University Medical Center are among the first in New Jersey to offer "intravesical chemotherapy" for bladder cancers that have continued to grow despite initial treatment and have not yet invaded the bladder wall.
“For me to be a part of presenting this award every year, it’s a blessing. It’s a blessing to me,” Morgan said after he presented the award to Ogarek. “I know the recipients of this award are people helping others. They are in service to others. That is the way to heaven.”
Hackensack University Medical Center donates blue surgical wrap to North Bergen High School where students transform the medical grade material into magnificent fashion in honor of healthcare workers and Earth Day 2022!
Mountainside Medical Group has announced that Randolph Sanchez, M.D., has joined the practice, adding rheumatology to the medical group’s specialty offerings. Dr. Sanchez treats a variety of autoimmune diseases in adult patients that can affect the bones, joints, and muscles, causing pain, swelling and deformity.
JFK University Medical Center now offers CT scans of the head for critically ill patients directly in the patient’s room with NeuroLogica’s next generation multi-slice, small bore, mobile OmniTom® Elite, that delivers high-quality point-of-care CT imaging.
Zakrzewski Lab aims to train immune system to make its own CAR T cells
Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center started a new study investigating the impact of omega-3 supplements on post-COVID symptoms.
Mountainside received “Leader” status from the HRC, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & queer civil rights organization, demonstrating Mountainside’s commitment to the equitable treatment & public commitment to LGBTQ+ patients, visitors & team members.
Pediatric Specialists Now Seeing Patients
“At Hackensack Meridian Health, our focus is to provide the best healthcare experience possible and we see Old Bridge Medical Center is doing just that by officially opening their new Emergency Department to our community,” said Robert C. Garrett, chief executive officer, Hackensack Meridian Health. “This expansion will allow unprecedented access to a full continuum of care.”
Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) advanced practice nurse Katherine E. DeMarco, DNP, MSHS, FNP-BC, APN, ACHPN, is an inaugural recipient of the 2022 Emerging Leaders Award from the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF).
“Our team of neurologists and specialized therapists identified the need to help people diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease who are not acutely ill or severely disabled but who struggle greatly at home with the symptoms and life-style changes that Parkinson’s disease brings,” said Sara Cuccurullo, M.D., vice president and medical director, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute. “In our new program, patients are admitted from their homes to participate in an individualized, multidisciplinary and targeted two-week inpatient rehabilitation program that helps them restore and maintain their function.”
Hackensack Meridian Health CEO Robert C. Garrett Addresses the Importance of Health Care Equity at Inaugural POLITICO Health Summit in Washington, D.C.
The YMCA of Montclair and Mountainside Medical Center partner to create dedicated spaces for lactation and infant feeding at the YMCA's Park Street location.
The Audrey Hepburn Children’s House - located on the campus of Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center - and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, have received a grant of $76,000 from the New Jersey Department of Children and Families.
Kenneth Lieberman, M.D., chief of Pediatric Nephrology at Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, and professor of Pediatrics at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, has received the 2022 Excellence in Care Award from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), a research and advocacy organization. He is the first New Jersey pediatric nephrologist to receive the honor.
Kulvir Nandra, M.D., colorectal surgeon, joins the Mountainside medical staff.
First corpus callosotomy surgery performed at Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center
“Our goal is to help both adults and children improve their quality of life after injury, illness or surgery,” said Anthony Cuzzola, vice president, Rehabilitation Care Transformation Services, Hackensack Meridian Health. “Our dedicated medical professionals will assess your condition and develop a personalized treatment program.”
Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center recently welcomed Roshani Patel, M.D., FACS, as medical director for breast surgery, part of Hackensack Meridian Health Cancer Care.
Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s ALS Center recently became the second New Jersey hospital to achieve status as an ALS Association Certified Treatment Center of Excellence from the association’s National Office and the Greater Philadelphia Chapter.
Four Hackensack Meridian Health Executive Leaders Earn National Recognition from Becker’s Hospital Review
Affiliation agreement allows the organizations to work together to support breakthroughs in biomedical research and technologies within the Hackensack Meridian Health network, the largest and most comprehensive in New Jersey.
Hackensack Meridian Children’s Health is proud to welcome Trisha Farmer, MSN, RN, CNS, as vice president of Children’s Care Transformation Services, and Alexis Kowalski, MPH, as regional director of Pediatrics and Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital.
On the eve of admitting New Jersey’s very first confirmed COVID-19 patient on March 3, 2019, Hackensack University Medical Center buried a time capsule today with contents commemorating all that has happened since the start of the pandemic.
Buhler is one of more than 5.3 million children and adults in the United States living with a serious brain injury, according to the Brain Injury Association of America. He continues to keep in touch with and receive care from Brian D. Greenwald, M.D., Medical Director of the Center for Brain Injuries at JFK Johnson.
Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center and Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center provides free dental care for children in observance of National Children’s Health Dental Health Month, and to mark Give Kids a Smile (GKAS) Day,.
Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center’s Heart and Vascular Hospital is enrolling patients in a study to treat Long COVID-19 Syndrome.
Hackensack Meridian Health academic medical centers Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Hackensack University Medical Center, which are licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health for open heart surgery, have earned distinguished three-star ratings from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
Hackensack University Medical Center opened a new Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Center which will offer a full scope of inpatient and outpatient oral and maxillofacial surgical services for children and adults, with a specialty in facial trauma and reconstruction surgery, as well as orthognathic (jaw) surgery.
Investigators in Female Pelvic Medicine at Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center Department of Urology have completed two studies and are conducting a third aimed at improving the standard of care for common urologic disorders in women.
The new model of care focuses on the whole child and provides resources that support the physical, emotional and social needs of the child and family.
“We are excited that the construction on our new state-of-the-art Behavioral Health unit has begun,” said Robert C. Garrett, chief executive officer, Hackensack Meridian Health. “We look forward to opening the first phase of the Behavioral Health expansion later this summer.”