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The Women’s Heart Fund raised over $140,000 in support of the Center for Survivorship and Wellness Care at Hackensack Meridian Health Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s HOPE Tower last month. More than 220 people came out to the Bay Head Yacht Club in Bay Head, New Jersey on June 1 in support of the center’s comprehensive, and compassionate, holistic cancer care services.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center has been named as the fourth most beautiful hospital in the U.S. through an annual competition run by Soliant Health, a leading specialty health care staffing provider and part of Adecco Group.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center now offers Y-90 radioembolization, an advanced and minimally invasive method to treat liver tumors without surgery. This procedure is used to treat patients who are not surgical candidates, but who have primary liver cancer or metastatic colon cancer. By directly targeting the tumor, Y-90 radioembolization reduces radiation damage to the healthy tissues surrounding tumors.

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The Sixth Annual Family Fireworks on the Navesink to support Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center Foundation took place on Tuesday, July 3 and raised nearly $205,000. This fun-filled family event was once again held at the DiPiero home on the picturesque Navesink River, where more than 350 guests joined in celebration of Riverview Medical Center.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center now offers audiology services for adults and children. The addition of these services, which are offered at the medical center’s North Beers Street location, compliment its robust speech language pathology program and enables trained audiology and speech language professionals to diagnose and treat a host of hearing and speech disorders in one location.

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Radicava is the first new treatment approved specifically for ALS in 22 years, the beginning of a new chapter in the fight against a terrible disease.

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Hospital holds status as the only currently certified organization for esophageal cancer in the country, and the only medical center in NJ with lung cancer certification.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel is now home to the da Vinci® Si™ Surgical system, bringing advanced technology in surgery to the medical center’s operating room and to the community. Robotic surgery enables surgeons to perform minimally invasive surgeries on a variety of diseases and conditions including urology, gynecology and general surgery.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Ocean Medical Center officially welcomed the first class of family medicine and psychiatry residents, at the inaugural 2018 Resident White Coat Ceremony. More than 125 community members were in attendance, including Hackensack Meridian Health leadership and academic enterprise, Board of Trustees, faculty, physicians, residents and their families. The new residency programs will train the physicians of tomorrow and address New Jersey’s projected shortages of primary care and psychiatry physicians.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, NJ, is pleased to welcome David M. Junkin, M.D., to the medical staff. Dr. Junkin is a board certified orthopedic surgeon, providing care for patients in need of treatment for sports medicine injuries or fracture, and has a special interest in knee and shoulder reconstruction.

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The Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center Foundation Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the Sixth Annual Family Fireworks on the Navesink to support Riverview Medical Center Foundation. This fun-filled family event will again be held at the DiPiero home on the picturesque Navesink River, on Tuesday, July 3 at 6:30 p.m.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, has again been nominated as one of the most beautiful hospitals in the U.S. in an annual competition run by Soliant Health, a leading specialty health care staffing provider and part of Adecco Group. Last year, the medical center placed second in the competition and is looking to claim the top spot, which is determined by number of votes.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center located in Red Bank, now offers full and partial robotic knee replacement surgery thanks to the addition of the Mako System, a robotic-arm that allows surgeons to personalize the surgical experience, tailoring it to patients’ needs and anatomy.

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After more than a decade of suffering from epileptic seizures – sometimes more than 100 a day – a woman finds improved quality of life thanks to neurosurgeon Lawrence Daniels, M.D. and the team at the Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore University Medical Center.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel is pleased to announce the re-opening of its Intensive Care Unit (ICU) following a small fire that occurred in a break room at the end of February. While no patients or team members were harmed, water from the sprinkler system that extinguished the fire caused damage to certain areas of the hospital, including the ICU.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, N.J., has again been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) as a result of an extensive review by the American College of Radiology (ACR). Ultrasound imaging, also known as sonography, uses high-frequency sound waves to produce images of internal body parts to help providers diagnose illness, injury or other medical problems. CT scanning – sometimes called CAT scanning – is a noninvasive medical test that helps physicians diagnose and tailor treatments for various medical conditions.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in nuclear medicine as the result of a recent review by the American College of Radiology (ACR). Nuclear medicine is a branch of medical imaging that uses small amounts of radioactive material, ingested by the patient, to diagnose and treat a variety of diseases, including many types of cancers, heart disease and other abnormalities within the body.

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For the eighth year in a row, Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center has been named to Becker's Healthcare list of "100 great hospitals in America."

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Hackensack Meridian Health is pleased to announce that Laurie G. Jacobs, M.D., AGSF, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Hackensack University Medical Center and the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University, where she also serves as a professor of medicine, was recently named president of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS).

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As part of an ongoing effort to offer patients the latest medical imaging technology available, the Department of Radiology at Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center recently acquired the Biograph Horizon PET/CT from Siemens Healthcare.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center is thrilled to announce the addition of the da Vinci Xi Surgical System, providing its surgeons with unparalleled precision, dexterity and control that allows for a minimally invasive surgical approach for many complex surgical procedures. Already home to the da Vinci Si™, the addition of the da Vinci Xi Surgical System adds to the already robust robotic surgery program at Riverview Medical Center, where surgeons perform a multitude of minimally invasive surgeries for complex diseases and conditions in gynecology, urology, thoracic, cardiac, and general surgery.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center is pleased to announce that Abdulla Al-Khan, M.D., FACS, FACOG, director of the Division of Maternal and Fetal Medicine and the Center of Abnormal Placentation at Hackensack University Medical Center, shared wisdom and best practices, internationally, by presenting recently at a Women’s Health Initiatives symposium in Cairo, Egypt.

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Hackensack Meridian Health is pleased to announce that it has been honored as a Champion of Good Works by The Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey (CIANJ) for its work to support and advance environmental conservation.

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The innovative program focuses on enhancing communication between patients and providers to improve health outcomes

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Woman’s Fertility Preserved with Minimally Invasive Cervical Fibroid Embolization Procedure

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Hackensack Meridian Health is pleased to announce that Richard W. Henning, co-chair of the Hackensack Meridian Health Hospitals Corporation Board of Trustees, has been honored with a United Hospital Fund 2018 Distinguished Trustee Award.

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In recognition for groundbreaking achievement and innovation in health care sustainability, Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest most comprehensive and integrated health network, received 15 Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards, including the Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award given to its flagship hospital Hackensack University Medical Center. Practice Greenhealth is the nation’s leading organization dedicated to environmental sustainability in health care.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center is pleased to announce that it has received a two-year National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) accreditation at Level 4, the top level of accreditation presented by the NAEC.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, NJ, is proud to name Frank Citara, MBA, as chief operating officer. In his new role, Citara will be responsible for overseeing all campus operations, as well as programming, community relations and the medical center’s finances. Citara joined Bayshore Medical Center in 2015 as senior manager of operations, where he directed 16 operations departments and outpatient service areas to ensure patient, physician and team member satisfaction while driving the medical center’s financial performance and operational efficiencies.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center is pleased to introduce DaTscan™, a tool to help physicians diagnose patients exhibiting the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and other Parksinsonian syndromes, particularly those that cause tremors. The test is another approach for physicians to accurately identify a disease that can be challenging to diagnose, particularly in its early stages.

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The Center for Sleep Medicine at Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center has received accreditation for the second time from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), whose mission is to improve sleep health and promote high-quality, patient-centered care through advocacy, education, strategic research, and practice standards.

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Sky Blue FC of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) officially announced that Hackensack Meridian Health will return in 2018 as the title sponsor of the club.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Raritan Bay Medical Center Foundation is pleased to invite the community to attend the Raritan Bay Medical Center Foundation Reception on Friday, May 11, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Grand Marquis in Old Bridge. Formerly known as the Harbor Lights Ball, the new format features cocktail-style flow, no formal table assignments, a delicious menu with an array of hors d’oeuvres and stations, music and dancing, 50/50 raffle and black tie optional attire. This premier fundraising event will benefit enhanced emergency services at Raritan Bay Medical Center – Old Bridge.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center is proud to announce that it has expanded services to offer transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, also known as transarterial chemoembolization, or TACE. TACE is an image-guided, non-surgical procedure used to treat malignant lesions in the liver. Performed in the Interventional Radiology department, an X-ray guided catheter delivers chemotherapy medication and embolization materials into the blood vessels in the liver that lead to the tumor.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center located in Red Bank, today announced the re-launch of its eye care services in the Matthews Vision Treatment Center, located in the Ambulatory Care Center. The ophthalmic program offers the most up-to-date and advanced options available for vision correction.

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Victoriya Staab, M.D., a pediatric surgeon at Hackensack Meridian Health K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital, has performed the hospital’s first newborn minimally invasive lung resection. Dr. Staab utilized state-of-the-art highly specialized tiny pediatric surgical instruments to perform an operation to remove a lobe of a newborn’s lung. This cutting-edge minimally invasive technology for surgery on newborns is only performed in the top children’s hospitals in the country.

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Executives sign letter of intent to review possible partnership for New Jersey’s largest health network and the state’s premier behavioral health provider.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation is excited to begin the New Year by announcing a philanthropic partnership with Home Box Office (HBO) to provide HBO Now programing gift cards for adults who are treated at the John Theurer Cancer Center.

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On the forefront of innovative stroke treatment, Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center provides leading edge thrombectomy technologies, amid new guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA).

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Keeping Babies Safe (KBS), a national non-profit organization that educates families about safe sleep, today announced it has signed Hackensack Meridian Health as the 2018 "Be Smart About Safe Sleep” sponsor.

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Ocean Medical Center Foundation is pleased to announce a $1 million commitment from the Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation of Toms River to support the hospital’s new Graduate Medical Education (GME) program. Ocean Medical Center recently announced that it received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for residency training programs in family medicine and psychiatry - practice areas in which there are serious shortages of physicians expected in New Jersey and the nation, and the Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation is the first to dedicate funding towards its success.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center located in Red Bank, today announced the launch of a Digestive Care Center to treat the full spectrum of digestive diseases. Located in the Ambulatory Care Center at Riverview Medical Center, the Digestive Care Center treats all aspects of digestive diseases and offers comprehensive and personalized care through highly skilled physicians and innovative technologies.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center is proud to announce that it has expanded services to offer treatment with the minimally invasive iliac branched endoprosthesis (IBE), an endograft that treats patients with aortic and iliac aneurysms in a minimally invasive way. The IBE is the first aortic branch device that is FDA approved for use in the United States and is the only device designated for the endovascular treatment of common iliac artery aneurysms or aorto-iliac aneurysms.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center has resumed normal operations, accepting all emergency patients into the Emergency Department and continuing regularly scheduled procedures in the wake of needed repairs after a small fire and water damage forced the temporary closure of a limited number of inpatient care areas on February 25. As a result, the hospital also elected to transport patients to nearby Hackensack Meridian Health hospitals and to divert ambulances.

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Hackensack University Medical Center participates in the American Heart Association’s Little Hats, Big Hearts program to empower new moms to live heart-healthy while raising awareness of congenital heart defects

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Hackensack Meridian Health is pleased to welcome William F. Faverzani, FACHE, MPA, as vice president, senior operations officer of Children’s Enterprise. Throughout his more than 20 years of experience in health care administration, Mr. Faverzani has developed leading pediatric programs.

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Mark B. Anderson, M.D., vice chair of Cardiac Surgery Services at Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical recently led a group of colleagues on a medical mission to Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Anderson is a leading expert in cardiac surgery including minimally invasive techniques.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center is pleased to announce that Ihor S. Sawczuk, M.D., FACS, president of Hackensack University Medical Center, has been elected president of the New York Medical & Surgical Society (NYMSS) for the 2018-19 academic year.

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Hackensack Meridian Health is pleased to announce several of the network’s foundations have been honored by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) for their exemplary performance in fundraising. Meridian Health Foundation (which encompasses Hackensack Meridian Health’s six southern regional Foundations; Jersey Shore University Medical Center Foundation, Ocean Medical Center Foundation, Riverview Medical Center Foundation, Southern Ocean Medical Center Foundation, Bayshore Medical Center Foundation and Raritan Bay Medical Center Foundation) and Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation were among those recognized.

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Hackensack Meridian Health's Nursing and Rehabilitation Facilities are highly ranked and an integral part of the network's continuum of high quality patient-centered care.