Monmouth Medical Center
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| Type | Regional Medical Center, Private (not-for-profit) |
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| Established | 1887 |
| President | Frank J. Vozos |
| Location | Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | [1] |
Coordinates: 40°17′44.66″N 73°59′8.40″W / 40.2957389°N 73.9856667°W
Monmouth Medical Center, in Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, is a not-for-profit, 527-bed, regional tertiary care teaching hospital located in Long Branch, New Jersey. Monmouth Medical Center covers 21 acres (85,000 m2), two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean, in Long Branch. It is one of New Jersey’s largest community academic medical centers and is an academic affiliate of Philadelphia’s Drexel University College of Medicine. Monmouth is Drexel’s largest major academic medical affiliate in New Jersey. It is also part of the larger Barnabas Health. Monmouth’s service area represents a population of nearly 1 million year-round residents in Monmouth, and portions of Ocean and Middlesex counties in addition to the large population of tourists who are visiting.
In 1887, an epidemic struck Long Branch, leaving eight children from poor families sick and in need of care. With no hospital in the area, local businessmen rented four rooms over a Broadway storefront to care for the children – an act that laid the foundation for what is now Monmouth Medical Center. In its earliest years, the hospital moved three times before establishing itself in what was formerly Long Branch’s Central Hotel. The hospital later acquired surrounding buildings, expanded and opened the Community Wing, the Henry Pollak Memorial Clinic, the Betty Block Roberts Pavilion, the Winone J. Eisner Pavilion for Therapeutic Radiology and the Professional and Educational Building, among many others. Admissions total more than 19,000 annually, and emergency visits total nearly 43,000 a year. Annual outpatient clinic visits top 126,000.
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