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Newswise: Mountainside Medical Center Strengthens Leadership with Accomplished Additions to Board of Trustees
Released: 3-Jan-2024 9:00 AM EST
Mountainside Medical Center Strengthens Leadership with Accomplished Additions to Board of Trustees
Hackensack Meridian Health (Mountainside Medical Center)

Mountainside Medical Center proudly announces the appointment of three distinguished individuals to its Board of Trustees: Sung T. Kim, M.D, James Mazza, chief of Emergency Medical Services at Montclair Ambulance Unit, and Joseph Ravenell, M.D. They will serve a minimum term of 2 years, effective January 1, 2024.

Released: 2-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
Resolving To Exercise More In The New Year? Experts Say Ease Into It To Make It A Habit And Avoid Injury
Hackensack Meridian Health

Experts on potential for injury when starting new exercise routine surrounding the new year and resolutions.

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center Welcomes 
First Baby of 2024
Released: 2-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center Welcomes First Baby of 2024
Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center

Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center Welcomes First Baby of 2024

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center ALS Center’s Dr. Mary Sedarous Receives Flame of Hope Award
Released: 22-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center ALS Center’s Dr. Mary Sedarous Receives Flame of Hope Award
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s Mary Sedarous, M.D., medical director of the ALS Center, was honored at ALS United Mid-Atlantic’s 2023 Annual Celebration with the organization’s Flame of Hope Award, recognizing research and innovation.

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s Weight Loss Program is New Jersey’s First Comprehensive Center with Adolescent and Obesity Medicine Qualifications
Released: 20-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s Weight Loss Program is New Jersey’s First Comprehensive Center with Adolescent and Obesity Medicine Qualifications
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s bariatric surgery center is the first in the state to be accredited as a Comprehensive Center with Adolescent and Obesity Medicine Qualifications by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®), a joint Quality Program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).

Released: 20-Dec-2023 1:05 PM EST
Bear’s Den Innovation Program Awards Two Winning Ideas from Team Members
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health employees’ innovations aimed to improve clinical side of operations

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center Performs Milestone 300th Organ Transplant on Grateful 37-Year-Old Patient from Teaneck
Released: 18-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center Performs Milestone 300th Organ Transplant on Grateful 37-Year-Old Patient from Teaneck
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center is now part of an elite group of hospitals in the U.S. to have performed more than 300 kidney transplants in one year.

Newswise: Hackensack University Medical Center’s Care Companion Program to Help Hospitalized Individuals with Complex Needs
Released: 15-Dec-2023 9:30 AM EST
Hackensack University Medical Center’s Care Companion Program to Help Hospitalized Individuals with Complex Needs
Hackensack Meridian Health

The Care Companion Program is an initiative started by Hackensack University Medical Center’s Office of Patient Experience to encourage loved ones to take an active, more hands-on, role in assisting with and improving the well-being of patients during their hospital stay.

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian Health Offers Innovative Technique for Imaging Breast Cancer Metastases Fueled by Estrogen
Released: 12-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Hackensack Meridian Health Offers Innovative Technique for Imaging Breast Cancer Metastases Fueled by Estrogen
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack University Medical Center became the first hospital in the Hackensack Meridian Health hospital network to perform PET scans using the new Cerianna tracer to track breast cancer metastases in patients whose tumors are fueled by estrogen.

Newswise: Hackensack University Medical Center’s Center for Healthy Senior Living  Recognized as 2023 Age-Friendly Health System – Committed to Care Excellence
Released: 11-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Hackensack University Medical Center’s Center for Healthy Senior Living Recognized as 2023 Age-Friendly Health System – Committed to Care Excellence
Hackensack Meridian Health

Designation recognizes the hospital’s commitment to providing high-quality, evidence-based care tailored to the unique needs of older adults.

Newswise: Hackensack University Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residents and Faculty Present Research at National Conference
Released: 7-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
Hackensack University Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residents and Faculty Present Research at National Conference
Hackensack Meridian Health

Emergency medicine resident physicians and faculty members presented the results of their research at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Research Forum, held in Philadelphia recently.

Newswise: Free Fitness Festival
Celebrating Ten Years of Energizing Our Community!
Released: 6-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
Free Fitness Festival Celebrating Ten Years of Energizing Our Community!
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Fitness & Wellness will celebrate its tenth anniversary with Hackensack Meridian Health.

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian Health’s John Theurer Cancer Center Offers Breakthrough Treatment for Early and Late-stage Cancer
Released: 6-Dec-2023 1:05 PM EST
Hackensack Meridian Health’s John Theurer Cancer Center Offers Breakthrough Treatment for Early and Late-stage Cancer
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health’s John Theurer Cancer Center is the first in New Jersey to install the groundbreaking RefleXion® X1 machine with SCINTIX® biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT), a breakthrough new treatment for patients with lung and bone tumors. These tumors could result from primary lung or bone cancers, or be the result of metastases to the lungs or bone from other primary cancers.

Newswise: Hackensack University Medical Center’s Central Utility Plant Receives Resiliency Award from the U.S. Green Building Council New Jersey
Released: 5-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
Hackensack University Medical Center’s Central Utility Plant Receives Resiliency Award from the U.S. Green Building Council New Jersey
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack University Medical Center’s Central Utility Plant has been awarded the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) New Jersey’s Resiliency Award, part of the organization’s annual Leadership Awards program.

Newswise: Helping Homeless Veterans This Winter
Released: 17-Nov-2023 1:05 PM EST
Helping Homeless Veterans This Winter
Hackensack Meridian Health

For its 24th annual Winter Backpack Drive, Operation Chillout partnered with Hackensack Meridian Health at Hackensack University Medical Center, the network’s flagship hospital, to help fulfill the wish lists of nearly 200 local veterans in need.

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian Children’s Health Medical Director of Pediatric Kidney Transplant Appointed as Co-Chair of National Kidney Transplant Working Group
Released: 16-Nov-2023 3:05 PM EST
Hackensack Meridian Children’s Health Medical Director of Pediatric Kidney Transplant Appointed as Co-Chair of National Kidney Transplant Working Group
Hackensack Meridian Health

Namrata G. Jain, MD, medical director of Pediatric Kidney Transplant at Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, and associate professor of Pediatrics at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, has been appointed co-chair of the Transplant Working Group of the prestigious Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium (PNRC).

Newswise: $3 Million Gift to Endow Bioethics Chair at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Released: 16-Nov-2023 10:05 AM EST
$3 Million Gift to Endow Bioethics Chair at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Hackensack Meridian Health

$3 Million Gift to Endow Bioethics Chair at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Newswise: Docs Who Rock
Released: 15-Nov-2023 10:05 AM EST
Docs Who Rock
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack University Medical Center's physicians performed in a Battle of the Bands and won! Raising money for a good cause while having some fun!

Newswise: Jersey Shore University Medical Center Now the Second New Jersey Hospital to Offer Incisionless Neurosurgical Tremor Treatment
Released: 14-Nov-2023 1:05 PM EST
Jersey Shore University Medical Center Now the Second New Jersey Hospital to Offer Incisionless Neurosurgical Tremor Treatment
Hackensack Meridian Health

The academic medical center joins Hackensack University Medical Center as one of few hospitals in the country to provide MRI-guided focused ultrasound to treat essential tremors, Parkinson’s disease related tremor and Parkinson’s disease that has not responded to medications

Newswise: Diabetes Alert Day - 2023
Released: 13-Nov-2023 10:05 AM EST
Diabetes Alert Day - 2023
Hackensack Meridian Health

Tuesday, November 14, is Diabetes Alert Day.

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian Health Selected as Inaugural Member of ARPA-H Investor Catalyst Hub Spoke Network
Released: 8-Nov-2023 12:05 PM EST
Hackensack Meridian Health Selected as Inaugural Member of ARPA-H Investor Catalyst Hub Spoke Network
Hackensack Meridian Health

HMH joins nationwide network working to accelerate transformative health solutions

Newswise: Innovations In Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Cancer, Making A Difference For Patients this Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Released: 2-Nov-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Innovations In Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Cancer, Making A Difference For Patients this Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Hackensack Meridian Health

Doctors and patients available for interviews about the advancements in conjunction with Lung Cancer Awareness Month

Newswise: Life-Changing Treatment for COPD Now Offered at Hackensack University Medical Center
Released: 30-Oct-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Life-Changing Treatment for COPD Now Offered at Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack Meridian Health

November is COPD Awareness Month, a recognition dedicated to raising awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), its impact on individuals and communities & the latest treatment options.

Newswise: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Recognizes the Pediatric ICU at K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital with the Gold-level Beacon Award for Excellence
Released: 27-Oct-2023 3:05 PM EDT
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Recognizes the Pediatric ICU at K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital with the Gold-level Beacon Award for Excellence
Hackensack Meridian Health

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recently conferred a gold-level Beacon Award for Excellence on the Pediatric ICU at Hackensack Meridian Children’s Health K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital, part of Jersey Shore University Medical Center.

Newswise: Jersey Shore University Medical Center is the First New Jersey Hospital Utilizing the Leading-Edge ARTIS icono Angiography Imaging System
Released: 24-Oct-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Jersey Shore University Medical Center is the First New Jersey Hospital Utilizing the Leading-Edge ARTIS icono Angiography Imaging System
Hackensack Meridian Health

The Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore University Medical Center recently added the new Siemens Healthineers ARTIS icono biplane system to its interventional imaging services thanks to an extraordinarily generous gift from Mrs. Mary Ellen Harris and the Golden Dome Foundation.

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian JFK Advanced Lung and Airway Center is the Second Medical Center in the United States to Separate the Fissure Robotically and Then Place the Valve During the Same Surgery
Released: 19-Oct-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Hackensack Meridian JFK Advanced Lung and Airway Center is the Second Medical Center in the United States to Separate the Fissure Robotically and Then Place the Valve During the Same Surgery
Hackensack Meridian Health

Combining Robotic Surgery with Endobronchial Valves for Patients with Advanced Emphysema Allowing More Patients to Benefit from this Procedure.

Newswise: A Life Saved, A Friend Made
Released: 16-Oct-2023 8:05 AM EDT
A Life Saved, A Friend Made
Hackensack Meridian Health

Arminda Jaochico, an outreach nurse navigator for Community Outreach & Engagement at the John Theurer Cancer Center was recently awarded a certificate of appreciation from the New Milford, New Jersey Police Department for life saving efforts last September.

Released: 12-Oct-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Jersey Shore University Medical Center Earns ACGME Accreditation for New Anesthesiology Residency Program
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s new four-year Anesthesiology Residency Program, launching spring 2024, recently earned accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Newswise: Hackensack University Medical Center Holds Ribbon Cutting on a new Center for Weight Loss and Metabolic Health
Released: 12-Oct-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Hackensack University Medical Center Holds Ribbon Cutting on a new Center for Weight Loss and Metabolic Health
Hackensack Meridian Health

The Integrated Program is dedicated to helping people lose weight and keep it off in the most healthy and appropriate way.

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian Health Receives $3 Million Grant to Make Fresh Produce More Accessible to Families in Need
Released: 12-Oct-2023 8:05 AM EDT
Hackensack Meridian Health Receives $3 Million Grant to Make Fresh Produce More Accessible to Families in Need
Hackensack Meridian Health

Health system is launching the Fresh Match program this fall and partnering with grocery retailers to make fresh fruits and vegetables more accessible to low income families

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center Welcomes Iman Andalib, MD, Advanced Practice Gastroenterologist
Released: 11-Oct-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center Welcomes Iman Andalib, MD, Advanced Practice Gastroenterologist
Hackensack Meridian Health

Dr. Andalib uses the latest technological and treatment advances for complex and minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures

Released: 11-Oct-2023 9:05 AM EDT
iPlay America Gifts $250,000 to Support the Child Life Program at K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center Foundation is pleased to announce a generous gift of $250,000 from iPlay America, New Jersey’s largest indoor amusement park, to support the Child Life Program at Hackensack Meridian Children’s Health at K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital in Neptune.

Newswise: He’s Always There for Us, Now We’re There For Him
Released: 10-Oct-2023 12:05 PM EDT
He’s Always There for Us, Now We’re There For Him
Hackensack Meridian Health

When Hackensack University Medical Center Security Officer Dwayne Humes walks into a room, his presence quietly commands attention. Dwayne served six years in the United States Air Force and 31 years and counting at the hospital.

Newswise: Hackensack University Medical Center holds
Released: 10-Oct-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Hackensack University Medical Center holds "Proud To Be A Team Member" T-Shirt Day!
Hackensack Meridian Health

Team members celebrated working at the #1 hospital in NJ with a "Proud To Be A Team Member" T-Shirt Day.

Newswise: More Than 150 Men Show Up for Their Health
Released: 5-Oct-2023 2:15 PM EDT
More Than 150 Men Show Up for Their Health
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health’s Men’s Health Day offers screenings for those at high risk for prostate cancer & other diseases.

Newswise: Stride with a Purpose in Support of Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at the Inaugural Bonita Stanton, M.D., Memorial 5K Run/Walk
Released: 5-Oct-2023 8:05 AM EDT
Stride with a Purpose in Support of Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at the Inaugural Bonita Stanton, M.D., Memorial 5K Run/Walk
Hackensack Meridian Health

Stride with a Purpose in Support of Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at the Inaugural Bonita Stanton, M.D., Memorial 5K Run/Walk



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