Jersey Shore University Medical Center has the most comprehensive services in the region. We are proud of our recent recognition from industry leaders in the following areas:
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Meridian Earns CEO Cancer Gold Standard Accreditation
Meridian Health received the CEO Cancer Gold Standard Accreditation from the CEO Roundtable on Cancer. This accreditation recognizes Meridian’s commitment to taking concrete actions to reduce the cancer risk of our team members and their families through screenings, early detection, and health changes in both lifestyle and the workplace. |
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The Region’s First Certified Primary Stroke Center
Nationally certified Primary Stroke Center with Gold Seal of Approval for Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations.
For more details, please click here.
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Chest Pain Center
Fully accredited Chest Pain Center from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. For more information click here.
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K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital
at Jersey Shore University Medical Center
First state designated Children's Hospital in Monmouth and Ocean counties. For more details, please click here.
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Level III accredited Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
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Commission on Cancer
Accredited with commendation as a comprehensive community teaching program by the American College of Surgeons, the highest level of accreditation offered by ACS. For information, click here.
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Level II Regional Trauma Center
One of the few American College of Surgeons Level II trauma centers in the state. For additional information, please click here.
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Recipient of Magnet award for nursing excellence — the eighth hospital in the country to be named and the first in the region to be certified three times.
The Magnet award is bestowed by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the nation's largest and foremost nursing accrediting and credentialing organization, to honor the nursing staffs of the hospitals that meet the nations highest standards. To read more about our ANCC Magnet Recognition, please click here.
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Recognized For Providing
an Outstanding Inpatient Experience
Recipient by J.D. Power and Associates as a distinguished hospital for providing an outstanding inpatient experience. For more details, please click here.
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Governor's Award for performance
excellence by Quality New Jersey
Jersey Shore University Medical Center has once again received recognition for quality performance with the recent announcement of its winning the New Jersey Governor’s Award for Performance Excellence at the Bronze level. The Governor’s Award is bestowed annually, following a comprehensive evaluation by Quality New Jersey (QNJ), a state agency which assesses the overall quality of New Jersey’s hospitals, manufacturing companies, and schools.
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Voted "Best Hospital in Monmouth County"
Consistently voted "Best Hospital in Monmouth County" by Asbury Park Press readers for 5 consecutive years.
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John M. Eisenberg Award for
Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality
Meridian Health, in 2005, was honored with the prestigious John M. Eisenberg Award for Patient Safety and Quality, a national award bestowed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations and the National Quality Forum. Meridian was recognized for improving patient safety and the quality of care delivered to residents of Monmouth and Ocean counties through the innovative use of evidence-based best practice clinical guidelines as part of the hospitals computer-based physician order entry system (CPOE).
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HealthGrades
Only hospital in New Jersey ranked by HealthGrades, a national leader in hospital ratings, for two consecutive years in its research on top hospitals for patient safety and clinical quality (teaching category) in the area.
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Meridian Health Named Most Wired and Most Wireless
Hospitals and Health Networks Magazine, a publication of the American Hospital Association, recently honored Meridian Health as one of the nation's 100 Most Wired Health Systems. It also named Meridian Health to its short list of the "Most Wireless" health systems. This is the ninth consecutive year Meridian has received this national recognition. Meridian Health is one of only 14 hospitals across the nation that have achieved this status for nine or more years. |
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Meridian is a Two-Time Winner of NJBIA’s Outstanding Employer Award
Meridian Health is the recipient of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association’s (NJBIA) 2009 Outstanding Employer of the Year award in recognition of Team Meridian University, our internal corporate university, and our commitment to supporting the learning and development goals of our team members. The Outstanding Employer award is presented to companies that demonstrate a creative and forward-looking approach to managing their human resources. This is the second time Meridian has received the Outstanding Employer Award. In 2003, we won for our Partnership "Total Rewards" Program. Comprised of Culture, Pay, Benefits, Learning & Development, Work/Life Balance and Work Environment, the program is offered to team members in exchange for the expertise, hard work, and dedication they bring to their jobs everyday.
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Meridian Makes "Best Places to Work in New Jersey"
for Fifth Straight Year
For the fifth year in a row, Meridian Health was selected as one of the top "Best Places to Work in New Jersey" by NJBiz, the state’s only weekly business publication. This survey and awards program honors the best places of employment in New Jersey, benefiting the state’s economy, its workforce and businesses. We’re extremely proud to be one of the few organizations in the state to be consistently recognized as an outstanding employer.
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Meridianhealth.com Wins
Gold For Best Overall Internet Site
2004 eHealthcare Leadership Awards Winners Honored at Health Care Internet Conference in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, NV – Almost 200 health care organizations, representing a broad industry spectrum, received recognition for their outstanding Web sites at a special presentation in Las Vegas on November 9 during a health care Internet conference sponsored by Greystone.Net, an Atlanta-based strategy firm, in cooperation with the Chicago-based Forum for Health Care Strategists. At the event, Meridian Health received the Gold Award for Best Overall Internet Site. Sites receiving the 2004 eHealthcare Leadership Awards were selected from 1,202 entries. One hundred four individuals familiar with health care and the Internet judged the entries.
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