Jersey Shore University Medical Center (JSUMC) is a 691-bed

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research and

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located in Neptune Township,

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, servicing coastal New Jersey and the Central Jersey area. JSUMC is the region’s only university-level academic medical center. The hospital is part of the

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Health System and is the system's second largest hospital. JSUMC is affiliated with the

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, and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University. JSUMC is also an ACS designated

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with a rooftop helipad handling

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patients. Attached to the medical center is the

K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital The K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital (KHCH) at Jersey Shore University Medical Center is a pediatric acute care hospital located in Neptune Township, New Jersey. The hospital has 88 beds and provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspe ...

that treats infants, children, adolescents, and young adults up to the age of 21. JSUMC is listed as a major teaching and tertiary care hospital and has a staff of 127 interns and residents. It is a member of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems.

History

Jersey Shore University Medical Center was founded in 1904 and originally named the Ann May Memorial Homeopathic Hospital. In 1932, it was renamed Raleigh Fitkin-Paul Morgan Memorial Hospital. In 1966, it was renamed the Jersey Shore Medical Center – Fitkin Hospital. In 2003, it was renamed Jersey Shore University Medical Center to reflect its heightened commitment to teaching. Jersey-shore-university-medical-centet-pano

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In 2009, the hospital expanded to include a 5 story tower with patient care units and an emergency department with 10 pediatric beds, cardiology units, and pediatric units. The expansion added 103 beds to the hospital and organized patient rooms into "neighborhoods" to ease patient anxiety. The design is recognized as an example of great hospital design. Before merging with Hackensack University Medical Center, Meridian Health's flagship facility was JSUMC. In 2019, the hospital once again expanded by building the 10 story, 300,000 square foot Healing Outpatient Experience (HOPE Tower) at a cost of $265 million. The HOPE Tower includes outpatient cancer care, maternity, pediatrics, doctors offices and high-tech academic and research space. As a part of the expansion, the HOPE tower includes a 200 seat auditorium named the John K. Lloyd Amphitheater after the former co-CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health. In March 2020, JSUMC implemented strict visitation protocols to help reduce the spread of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2020 the hospital drew criticism when they fired a nurse after the nurse voiced concerns over the lack of protective equipment ( PPE) available to staff. A month later more employees came forward to criticize the hospital's PPE actions in the matter. In early 2021, JSUMC opened a new cardiac

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ization lab as part of the first stage of a $45 million cardiovascular expansion scheduled to be completed in July 2023. In 2003, the hospital performed 636 cardiac operations, the 5th most in the New York-New Jersey region according to a

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heart study.

Services

Jersey Shore University Medical Center include

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Bariatric Surgery Bariatric surgery (or weight loss surgery) includes a variety of procedures performed on people who are obese. Long term weight loss through the standard of care procedures ( Roux en-Y bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, and biliopancreatic diversion ...

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Cardiac Surgery Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to corr ...

, Cardiovascular Program,

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, Dialysis Center,

Emergency Department An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of pati ...

Endocrine Surgery Endocrine surgery is a surgical sub-speciality focusing on surgery of the endocrine glands, including the thyroid gland, the parathyroid glands, the adrenal glands, glands of the endocrine pancreas, and some neuroendocrine glands. Types Thyro ...

Family Health Family medicine is a medical specialty within primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. The specialist, who is usually a primary ...

Gastroenterology Gastroenterology (from the Greek gastḗr- “belly”, -énteron “intestine”, and -logía "study of") is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. The digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract ...

Gynecological Surgery Gynecological surgery refers to surgery on the female reproductive system usually performed by gynecologists. It includes procedures for benign conditions, cancer, infertility, and incontinence. Gynecological surgery may occasionally be performed ...

, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Hospitalist Program,

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, Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, Laboratory Services,

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, Health care, Medical Services, Neuroscience Institute,

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, Pancreatic Surgery, Parathyroid Surgery,

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Pulmonary Rehabilitation Pulmonary rehabilitation, also known as respiratory rehabilitation, is an important part of the management and health maintenance of people with chronic respiratory disease who remain symptomatic or continue to have decreased function despite stand ...

Rehabilitation Services Physical medicine and rehabilitation, also known as physiatry, is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to people with physical impairments or disabilities. This can include conditions su ...

Robotic Surgery Robotic surgery are types of surgical procedures that are done using robotic systems. Robotically assisted surgery was developed to try to overcome the limitations of pre-existing minimally-invasive surgical procedures and to enhance the capabil ...

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, Thyroid Surgery,

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, and

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Awards and rankings

From 2017 to 2019, the hospital was rated as #4 in New Jersey by ''U.S. News & World Report''. In 2020, Jersey Shore University Medical Center was ranked fifth of New Jersey hospitals and second in the Central Jersey area hospitals by '' U.S. News & World Report''. In 2020, the hospital was ranked #39 nationally in

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by ''U.S. News & World Report''. Also in 2020, the hospital received a ''bronze performance achievement award'' from the

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, one of 35 hospitals nationwide to receive the award. In Fall 2020, Jersey Shore University Medical Center was given a "B" grade by patient safety organization "The Leapfrog Group." In 2020 it ranked in the top 10% in

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's Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey of national hospitals. In 2021 it was given a grade A by the Leapfrog

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K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital

The K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical Center is a pediatric acute care hospital located in

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. The hospital has 88 beds and provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and sub-specialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Coastal New Jersey. It is affiliated with both the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University and

, and is a member of Hackensack Meridian Health. K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital features the only pediatric trauma center in the region, and 1 of 3 in the state.

In popular culture

The hospital was shown in a few episodes of The Learning Channels' highly rated reality program, " Trauma: Life in the E.R."

References

External links

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