Riverview Medical Center is a 476-bed acute care

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located in Red Bank,

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, United States. It serves the northern region of

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. In 2021 was ranked in the top 50 hospitals in New Jersey by

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. It received

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’s (ANCC) Magnet® Recognition Program® awards in 2012 and 2017.

History

The hospital was founded in June 1922 as Woodley Sanitarium and Nursing Home in

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by Mary Augusta Garner Seaman on the family's Victorian estate. In 1927, it relocated to two rented houses at 139 Broad Street,

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after the Little Silver property was sold by Miss Seaman's mother. It was incorporated in 1928 and moved to a renovated boarding house on Union Street as Red Bank Hospital, with 29 beds, one operating room, a delivery suite and facilities for six newborns. After a public naming contest, it was renamed Riverview Hospital on August 10, 1929.

Facilities

Riverview Medical Center is a part of

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. Riverview Medical Center provides

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nursing home care and

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. Riverview Medical Center was ranked third in 2019 by

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on its 2019 list of the most beautiful hospitals in the United States.Paavola, Alia
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Becker's Hospital Review, July 18, 2019. Accessed January 29, 2020. "3. Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center (Red Bank, N.J.)"

Deaths

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(1906–1985) * Alfred Nash Beadleston, Jr. (1912–2000)

References

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