Monmouth Medical Center

Coordinates: 40°17′44.66″N 73°59′8.40″W / 40.2957389°N 73.9856667°W / 40.2957389; -73.9856667

Monmouth Medical Center
Type Regional Medical Center, Private (not-for-profit)
Established 1887
President Frank J. Vozos
Location Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.
Campus Urban
Website

Monmouth Medical Center, in Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, is a not-for-profit, 527-bed, regional tertiary care teaching hospital located in Long Branch, New Jersey. Monmouth Medical Center covers 21 acres (85,000 m2), two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean, in Long Branch. It is one of New Jersey’s largest community academic medical centers and is an academic affiliate of Philadelphia’s Drexel University College of Medicine. Monmouth is Drexel’s largest major academic medical affiliate in New Jersey. It is also part of the larger Barnabas Health. Monmouth’s service area represents a population of nearly 1 million year-round residents in Monmouth, and portions of Ocean and Middlesex counties in addition to the large population of tourists who are visiting.

History

In 1887, an epidemic struck Long Branch, leaving eight children from poor families sick and in need of care. With no hospital in the area, local businessmen rented four rooms over a Broadway storefront to care for the children – an act that laid the foundation for what is now Monmouth Medical Center. In its earliest years, the hospital moved three times before establishing itself in what was formerly Long Branch’s Central Hotel. The hospital later acquired surrounding buildings, expanded and opened the Community Wing, the Henry Pollak Memorial Clinic, the Betty Block Roberts Pavilion, the Winone J. Eisner Pavilion for Therapeutic Radiology and the Professional and Educational Building, among many others. Admissions total more than 19,000 annually, and emergency visits total nearly 43,000 a year. Annual outpatient clinic visits top 126,000.

Accreditation and awards

Monmouth Medical Center is accredited with commendation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and is a member of the Council of Teaching Hospitals of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The Dental medicine residency is accredited by the American Dental Association. All other residencies are accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

The hospital was recently recognized as a Distinguished Academic Medical Center among an elite group of the nation’s nine leading teaching hospitals, by Press Ganey. Additionally, Monmouth Medical Center had recently earned a ranking on Solucient 100 Top Hospitals – Performance Improvement Leaders award, recognizing Monmouth Medical Center for its clinical outcomes and patient safety. In 2006, the Department of Radiology received recognition in the publication Medical Imaging as a runner-up for "Best Freestanding Imaging Center or Group".[1]

Education

In 1945, Monmouth established its first residency program – in orthopedics – to meet the needs of physicians returning from World War II trained in treating battlefield trauma.

Half of the residents enter practice after graduation, while the others enter some of the most competitive fellowships in the United States. Today Monmouth has 110 residents in nine accredited residency programs.

Graduate medical education

Monmouth University Medical Scholars

This program allows incoming Freshman of Monmouth University a track directly tailored toward Medical School. Students are pre-selected, enter a rigorous Pre-medical, undergraduate course of study and are guided by way of special advisors and preceptors at Monmouth Medical Center. If successfully completing the program with desired GPA and MCAT scores, they are ensured acceptance at Drexel University College of Medicine.[2]

The campus

The hospital’s main building comprises 16 wings that occupy a total of 735,000 square feet (68,300 m2), in addition to 16 other buildings totaling 185,100 square feet (17,200 m2). These include apartments for resident physicians, a privately operated day care center, Ronald McDonald House, and a professional and educational building.

Services

Unterberg Childrens' Hospital

The first mention of a special area devoted to the care of children appeared in the hospital’s 1904 annual report, and the first mention of a pediatrician highlights Lester D. Wise, M.D., as chief of pediatrics in the 1920 annual report. By 1923, Dr. Wise was joined by Stanley Nichols, M.D., and they are both reported to have worked in the Dispensary Department for the Children’s Clinic. In 1934, Dr. Nichols became one of the first child specialists in the country to be certified by the newly created American Board of Pediatrics. Under his direction, the elements of the pediatric program were specified by the time the Borden Memorial Pavilion was built in 1940. Dr. Nichols served as chief of pediatrics from 1935 until his death in 1949, at which time the Dr. Stanley Nichols Branch of the hospital auxiliary was formed to support pediatric projects. The Regional Newborn Center opened in 1968 made Monmouth the first hospital in New Jersey and the first community hospital in the country to establish a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). During polio epidemic of 1940s, polio treatment developed under the leadership of Dr. Nicholas Ransohoff from curare, a relaxant drug used in ancient times got international attention. The volume of polio patients reached its peak in 1949, with patients traveling to Monmouth from other states and even overseas. In January 2006, Monmouth Medical Center was licensed by New Jersey as an official children’s hospital for Monmouth and Ocean counties. Now Monmouth has 140 pediatric specialists in 26 fields of medicine.

Pollak Mental Health Center

In 1950, Monmouth Medical Center unveiled Pollak Mental Health Services, the first outpatient mental health clinic in the county, and today the outpatient service offers the full range of behavioral health services. Monmouth’s recently expanded Psychiatric Emergency Screening Service (PESS) is the designated such service for Monmouth County, and Children's Crisis Intervention Service is the area's state-designated program for the inpatient treatment of children and adolescents with acute emotional, behavioral or psychiatric problems.[3]

David S. Zocchi Brain Tumor Center

The David S. Zocchi Brain Tumor Center at the Leon Hess Cancer Center provides a full spectrum of comprehensive services to treat benign and malignant tumors originating in the brain and spinal cord, as well as neurological complications of cancer that has spread to other regions of the body.

Jacqueline M. Wilentz Comprehensive Breast Center

Since opening in December 1994, the Jacqueline M. Wilentz Comprehensive Breast Center has been the region's leader in providing the advanced breast health services. The Center also offers satellite locations for the convenience of our patients in Colts Neck, Howell and Lakewood, New Jersey.

Eisenberg Family Center

Eisenberg Family Center is a comprehensive maternal and birth center offering prenatal, delivery and post natal care. Around 4200 babies are born each year in the center.

Dental Medicine

Monmouth Medical Center has one of the largest dental departments in New Jersey. Some of the most advanced surgical procedures performed here include temporomandibular joint arthroscopy, orthognathic surgery as well as comprehensive dentistry under general anesthesia for pediatric and special needs patients.

Integrative Medical Team

The center involves conventional and complementary modalities of treatment offering acupuncture, herbal consultation, massage therapy, yoga and diabetes management education.

The Altschul Medical Library

Located within the hospital, this collection serves as the major information resource for the faculty, residents and students in the Department of Medical Education and staff of Monmouth Medical Center. The Library houses 4000 monographs, 7000 reels of microfilm, 2000 bound volumes, and subscribes to 300 journals.

The Library is a member of the Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative and National Network of Libraries of Medicine. It participates in the National Library of Medicine Docline and has interlibrary loan arrangements with 100+ hospitals and universities throughout New Jersey.

Monmouth Medical Center Foundation

This organization, started in 1982, is a volunteer group that fundraises through various functions to help provide charitable care to the community it serves.[4]

Honors & Awards

recognition attainable from the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers and is also a recipient of the Women’s Choice Award as one of America’s best breast centers.

References

  1. ↑ The Best of the Best | January 2006: The MI Industry Top 10 | Medical Imaging
  2. ↑ Monmouth University: Medical Scholars
  3. ↑ Foundation, MMC. "MMCF". mmcf.
  4. ↑ Monmouth Medical Center Foundation

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