Press Release 2009 Archive
Jersey City Medical Center Auxiliary to Hold Open HouseDecember 1, 2009 - Looking for something fun and interesting to do and at the same time make a difference in the lives of others? If so, you may want to consider becoming a member of the Jersey City Medical Center Auxiliary.
Meadowlands Hospital To Host Free Health ExpoNovember 17, 2009 - Meadowlands Hospital will host a free health expo on Saturday, November 21 from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm in the Imperial Ballroom at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (2 Harmon Plaza) in Secaucus. The health screenings and lectures are free and open to the public.
Jersey City Medical Center's ‘GOOD TICKET’ Promotion Found To Increase Bicycle Helmet Use Among ChildrenNovember 17, 2009 - Who said a little positive reinforcement doesn’t work?
Epilepsy Strikes Children And SeniorsNovember 17, 2009 - Epilepsy is more common than you think. And it affects a range of people in a number of different ways.
New Technology Allows Jersey City Medical Center’s EMS To Monitor For Bio Surveillance, PandemicsNovember 17, 2009 - A state-of-the-art computer software program is allowing Jersey City Medical Center’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to identify pandemic or a terrorist attacks ahead of time so First Responders can take appropriate actions to help both staff and patients.
Epilepsy To Be Focus On Upcoming ‘Dinner With The Doctor’November 17, 2009 - Epilepsy will affect as many as 2 percent of the population at some point during their lifetime. New cases of epilepsy are most common among young children, with an increased incidence occurring after age 55 or 60 when people begin to develop strokes, brain tumors or cognitive disorders.
Members Of Jersey City Medical Center EMS Billing Staff Receive National CertificationNovember 17, 2009 - Jersey City Medical Center EMS billing staff supervisor Maribel Rivera and staff members Mary Cannon and Nicole Beals are the first in Hudson County to become certified by the National Academy of Ambulance Coding (NAAC). This followed completion of an intense training program consisting of over 25 courses covering such subjects as proper insurance coding procedures, anatomy, medical terminology, legal compliance and ambulance claim processing procedures.
Congratulations! Newly Elected 2010-2011 Officers of the Jersey City Medical Center Medical-Dental StaffNovember 13, 2009 - Joe Scott, FACHE – LibertyHealth President/CEO and Kenneth Garay, MD – Chief Medical Officer congratulate Dr.’s Saleem Mahmood, Edward Poon and Rao Mikkilineni.
Jersey City Medical Center To Honor Its Operating Room Nurses, November 8-15November 8, 2009 - Jersey City Medical Center will honor its operating room nurses during the week of November 8 as part of the nationally recognized Perioperative Nurses Week. The theme is Reaching the Peak of Perioperative Practice: Safety, Quality, Collaboration.
Libertyhealth Takes Steps To Limit Patients Exposure To Swine Flu And Seasonal FluNovember 3, 2009 - In response to the rising number of cases involving the H1N1 flu and the seasonal flu, LibertyHealth is now taking steps to protect its patients, their families and staff by limiting visitation to its two hospitals, Jersey City Medical Center and Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus.
Rehabilitation Following Joint Replacement, Stroke Or Accident: What Do You Need To Know?October 28, 2009 - What if you or a loved one needs rehabilitation following a stroke, hip fracture, knee replacement or traumatic accident? What questions will you need to ask and what decisions will need to be made?
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit At Jersey City Medical Center To Host Annual Halloween Party For ‘ALUMNI’ BabiesOctober 28, 2009 - The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Jersey City Medical Center, which cares for babies as small as one pound at birth, will hold its annual Halloween Party for its “alumni” babies on Friday, October 30, 2 – 4 p.m. at the hospital, 355 Grand Avenue, Jersey City (in the sky-lab between 4 East and 4 West).
Jersey City Medical Center To Host Community MeetingOctober 14, 2009 - Jersey City Medical Center will host an annual meeting for the community on Thursday, October 15 (beginning at 6:30 p.m.) in its first floor cafeteria at 355 Grand Street in Jersey City.
Jersey City Medical Center Wins State Grant For Creation Of Therapeutic Nursery ProgramSeptember 14, 2009 - The Department of Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Services at Jersey City Medical Center has been awarded a grant from the state of more than $400,000 to create and operate a therapeutic nursery program for children ages three to five years in Hudson County who are in need of intensive therapeutic intervention due to emotional, behavioral and/or psychiatric problems.
Jersey City Medical Center Receives Verification As Level II Trauma CenterSeptember 14, 2009 - The Port Authority Heroes of September 11 Trauma Center at Jersey City Medical Center has been verified as a Level II Trauma Center by the Verification Review Committee, an ad hoc committee of the Committee of Trauma of the American College of Surgeons.
Meadowlands Hospital Offers a Good Night Sleep To Patients Suffering From Range Of Sleep DisordersAugust 20, 2009 - As far as Len, a burly 56-year-old bus driver from Rutherford, was concerned, it was a case of “what sleep disorder?” Yet, his wife Linda knew there was a problem – after all, his snoring was so loud that not only did it keep her up at night but she always said she was surprised it didn’t wake the people in the house across the street.
LibertyHealth To Host Insurance FairAugust 20, 2009 - LibertyHealth will host Information and Enrollment On-Site Fairs in the lobbies at Jersey City Medical Center, 355 Grand Avenue in Jersey City; Meadowlands Hospital, 55 Meadowlands Parkway in Secaucus; and the Jersey City Medical Center Financial Counseling Site, 953 Garfield Avenue in Jersey City from Monday, August 24 – Friday, August 28 (9 a.m. – 4 p.m.).
Jersey City Medical Center To Offer Alzheimer’s Support Group For CaregiversAugust 20, 2009 - Those who care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease often find that even family members and close friends have no idea what it’s really like.
Sophisticated Use Of Technology Helps Ems At Jersey City Medical Center Improve Patient OutcomesAugust 4, 2009 - When a 51-year-old Jersey City man was struck down by a speeding hit-and-run pickup as he crossed Marin Boulevard at Sixth Street on a Saturday afternoon, his life hung in the balance.
LibertyHealth Names Paul R. Goldberg As New CFOAugust 4, 2009 - Paul R. Goldberg has been named Chief Financial Officer of LibertyHealth. He joined the health care system, which operates and manages Jersey City Medical Center and Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus, in February 2009 as Interim CFO.
Jersey City Medical Center Is Only Organization With Multiple Winners In NJBIZ’s Healthcare HeroesAugust 4, 2009 - Rita V. Smith, the Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services at Jersey City Medical Center, and Marissa Fisher, the hospital’s Injury Prevention Coordinator, have won NJBIZ’s Healthcare Heroes awards in the categories of Nurse of the Year and Educator of the Year, respectively.
Surgeons Now Offer ‘Single Incision’ Laparoscopic SurgeryAugust 4, 2009 - To Dr. Anroy Ottley, a general surgeon at Jersey City Medical Center, the new “no incision” laparoscopic gallbladder surgery represents a new frontier in minimally invasive surgery.
With More Stroke Patients Surviving, Emphasis Is On Rehab To Enhance Their Quality Of LifeAugust 4, 2009 - Every 40 seconds someone in the U.S. has a stroke. An estimated 6.5 million strokes occur annually, killing approximately 140,000 men and women. With the mortality rate having fallen 29.7 percent and the actual number of stroke deaths having declined 13.5 percent over the last decade, the question of how to enhance the quality of life for those who survive takes on increasing importance.
Top Women’s Golfer Cristie Kerr And Libertyhealth Unveil Plans For Women’s Health Center At Jersey City Medical CenterJuly 31, 2009 - Cristie Kerr, one of the world’s top women’s professional golfers, today joined LibertyHealth to announce the founding of The Cristie Kerr Women’s Health Center on the Jersey City Medical Center campus. The center, to be housed in a five-story building presently under construction, will offer breast cancer screening programs including free mammograms and education to women with or without insurance.
Blood Drive to Honor Fallen, Injured Police Officers to be Held at Jersey City Medical Center on July 30thJuly 30, 2009 - A special community blood drive will be conducted by Jersey City Medical Center and Community Blood Services on Thursday, July 30th (7 a.m. – 5 p.m.) to honor Jersey City’s fallen and injured police officers.
Dying in New Jersey: Offering life or Prolonging Death?June 26, 2009 - When Dr. Michelle Reisner, medical director of the Palliative Care program at Jersey City Medical Center, and her nurse practitioner Nancy Pain recently met with the family of an 88-year-old patient to discuss next steps, the decision was a heartfelt one, but one they could all agree with.
Jersey City Medical Center uses Physicians Assistants to Improve Patient Care, Drive Down CostsJune 26, 2009 - Wearing scrubs with a stethoscope dangling from her neck, Jennifer Perryman looks like any young physician to patients and their families at Jersey City Medical Center. Her duties further substantiate this: she sutures patients, does consults, orders tests, prescribes medication, and puts in chest tubes, central lines and catheters.
Meadowlands Hospital Responses to need for ‘Same Day’ and Quick Access to Radiology ServicesJune 26, 2009 - Recognizing the long waiting times at many hospitals and imaging centers in northern New Jersey and the need for quick access to scheduling and receiving radiology services and mammograms, Meadowlands Hospital is now offering “same day” and more expansive services at its Secaucus location including evening and Saturday hours.
Booster Seat Program Helps Keep Bayonne Children SafeJune 16, 2009 - Thanks to a collaborative effort by the New Jersey Division of the Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Jersey City Medical Center and Safe Kids Hudson County, a number of Bayonne children are now being driven around town more safely and secure than before.
Is it Alzheimer’s Disease or Normal Aging? Geriatrician to Answer Question at Dinner with the DoctorJune 16, 2009 - Dr. Michelle Reisner, Director of Geriatrics at Jersey City Medical Center, will speak on the topic “Is it Alzheimer’s Disease or Normal Aging?” at the next Dinner with the Doctor event, scheduled for Thursday, June 25th (beginning at 6:30 p.m) at Jersey City Medical Center (355 Grand Street).
Jersey City Medical Center and the Hoboken Police Department To Distribute ‘Positive Tickets’ to Encourage Helmet Use by ChildrenJune 16, 2009 - Don’t be upset if your son or daughter brings home a “ticket” this summer they received from the Hoboken police.
Questions for the Surgeon is the Focus of the Next ‘Dinner with the Doctor’ Event at Meadowlands HospitalJune 16, 2009 - What exactly is meant by minimally invasive surgery? Laparoscopic surgery? Bloodless surgery? These are among the questions that general surgeon Dr. Salvatore Forcina, Chief of Surgery at Meadowlands Hospital, will answer at the upcoming “Dinner with the Doctor” event, scheduled for Thursday, June 25th (beginning at 6:30 p.m) at the Secaucus hospital (located at 55 Meadowlands Parkway).
'Upset Stomach’ Necessitates Life Saving Surgery At Meadowlands Hospital For Local ManMay 6, 2009 - Soon after Wilder Cabanillas, a 46-year-old West New York man, returned from work last week he began to complain to his wife and daughter about stomach pain. He assumed that he must have eaten something earlier in the day that didn’t agree with him. When the pain worsened, they convinced him to see his doctor.
Libertyhealth Gala To Support Trauma Center, Emergency Medical Services On May 8thMay 6, 2009 - LibertyHealth will holds its annual Spring Gala on Friday, May 8th, with proceeds to benefit the Port Authority Heroes of September 11th Trauma Center at Jersey City Medical Center and the Jersey City Medical Center Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The event will be held at the brand new Westin Jersey City, 479 Washington Boulevard, from 6 – 11 p.m.
New Jersey Trauma Center Council Participates in National Trauma Awareness MonthMay 6, 2009 - New Jersey Health Statistics report that "unintentional injury is the leading cause of death among residents age 1 – 44 years old. Nearly 600 fatalities occurred on New Jersey roadways in 2008, as pedestrian and bike crashes continued to rise. In cities like Jersey City, this problem is compounded by population density and the proximity of housing to busy streets.
Meadowlands Hospital Scores In Top Percentage In Independent Patient Satisfaction RatingsMay 6, 2009 - A leading independent hospital rating system has ranked Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus in the top percentile locally, regionally and nationally in terms of inpatient and outpatient satisfaction scores for first quarter 2009.
Meadowlands Hospital To Host Free ‘Sunday Brunch With The Doctors’ Event On April 19thApril 19, 2009 - Meadowlands Hospital will host a free “Sunday Brunch with the Doctors” event on Sunday, April 19th (beginning at 11 a.m.) in their penthouse suite, with area residents invited to hear a leading plastic surgeon and the director of the hospital’s emergency services speak on their areas of expertise and answer questions
Advances In Hip And Knee Surgery: Athletics To Arthritis Will Be Topic Of Upcoming ‘Dinner With The Doctors’ EventMarch 26, 2009 - Advances in Hip and Knee Surgery: From Athletics to Arthritis will be the next topic in Jersey City Medical Center’s popular “Dinner with the Doctor” series, scheduled for Thursday, March 26th (beginning at 6:30 p.m).
Meadowlands Hospital To Host Insurance FairMarch 23,2009 - Jersey City Medical Center and Meadowlands Hospital will host Information and Enrollment On-Site Fairs in their main lobbies at 355 Grand Avenue in Jersey City, and 55 Meadowlands Parkway in Secaucus from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. from Monday, March 23 – Friday, March 27th.
Ticket to The Barclays PGA Tour Event at Liberty National will Help Support Libertyhealth’s Trauma Center, EMSJune 16, 2009 - You can follow the greatest golfers in the world as they play one of America’s most exclusive courses, and at the same time help support Jersey City Medical Center’s Heroes of September 11 Trauma Center and Emergency Medical Services.
Jersey City Medical Center, Safe Kids Hudson County and City Fire Department Offer Fire Prevention Safety Tips to StudentsJune 16, 2009 - Second and third graders at Jersey City PS 15 will be receiving important lifesaving information when city experts come to their school (at 135 Stegman Street) on Monday, June 15 (beginning at 9:30 a.m.) to offer fire prevention safety tips.
LibertyHealth is enhancing life by providing community educational and lifesaving servicesMarch 4, 2009 JERSEY CITY and SECAUCUS - A unique program called CPR Anytime, developed by the American Heart Association and sponsored by LibertyHealth (which operates Jersey City Medical Center and Meadowlands Hospital), will be introduced to every seventh grade student at public schools throughout Jersey City and Secaucus.
Jersey City Medical Center To Hold Ribbon Cutting For New Pediatric Er Waiting RoomMarch 18, 2009 - The story behind the new pediatric waiting room in the emergency department at Jersey City Medical Center, which will be officially unveiled in a ribbon cutting ceremony on March 18, is as impressive as the room itself.
Selection of Michael Bimonte, MD as Chair of OB/GYN Department at JCMCJanuary 28, 2009 - We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Bimonte has been selected as the Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN) at Jersey City Medical Center. As Chair of OB/GYN at Meadowlands Hospital, Dr. Bimonte has demonstrated his outstanding leadership capabilities which he will now utilize to guide the OB/GYN programs at both LibertyHealth hospitals.
Enhancing Life with Culturally Competent Patient-Centered CareJanuary 26, 2009 - More than 80 physicians Jersey City Medical Center and Meadowlands Hospital, along with their colleagues from other nearby hospitals, attended a six-hour seminar on providing culturally competent patient-centered care.
Jersey City Medical Center to Offer Kids Free Dental CareJanuary 7, 2009 JERSEY CITY - Jersey City Medical Center, in cooperation with various dental associations and schools throughout the state, will host the 7th annual Give Kids a Smile at its Columbus Health Center, 115 Christopher Columbus Drive (across from the Grove Street Path Station) on Friday, February 6 (from 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.).
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