Hospice News
Monmouth Medical
Center Hospice Team
Named Among the Best
Recently, the Barnabas Health Hospice and Palliative Care
Center Inpatient Unit at Monmouth Medical Center, an affiliate
of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, was named “Among
the Best” in the 2007 Advance for Nurses Editor’s
Choice Best Nursing Team contest.
Advance for Nurses is a bi-weekly publication which
provides concise, practical information on clinical, management,
professional and career development issues for nurses practicing
in all areas of the profession. Each year the publication’s Best
Nursing Team contest generates hundreds of entries from
the 10 regions the magazine serves. The Monmouth Medical
Center hospice team was recognized in the Greater New York/New
Jersey Metro area edition.
“From the hospice and palliative care center’s
inception in 2000, the nursing team has displayed tremendous
initiative,” describes Ellen Coughlin, MPA, RN, Vice
President of Patient and Family Services for the Barnabas Health Hospice and Palliative Care Center. “Many of
the unit’s nurses were on staff at Monmouth Medical
Center and believed passionately in the need for a unit dedicated
to caring for patients at the end of life. All of the
nurses rolled up their sleeves and pitched in to transform
the unit into a thriving care center.”
Established in 1981, the Barnabas Health Hospice and Palliative Care Center, located at 95 Old Short Hills Road in West Orange,
provides comprehensive care for patients with advanced illness,
and their families, throughout ten counties in the State
of New Jersey. The Barnabas Health Hospice and Palliative Care Center supports inpatient units at Monmouth Medical
Center in Long Branch, and Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
in Newark, NJ, as well as Van Dyke Hospice and Palliative
Care Center at Community Medical Center in Toms River. It
also provides home care and services for individuals in long-term
care and assisted living facilities
The Barnabas Health Hospice and Palliative Care Center, which
serves infants, children, adults and the elderly, honors the
unique choices and values of patients and their families and
offers full access to the broad array of services provided
by the Saint Barnabas Health Care System. For information,
call 973-322-4800.
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