Quality and safety are essential to deliver excellent healthcare. Quality measures help us to quantify healthcare processes, outcomes, patient perceptions, and organizational structure that are associated with the ability to provide high-quality healthcare and ensure patient safety. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade gives a letter grade A through F, [...]
Pickleball has become America’s fastest growing sport – probably because it has physical and social benefits and can be played at any age or skill level. But injuries sometimes happen, particularly in people over age 60. About 60% of pickleball injuries are sprains, strains and fractures. If you’ve joined [...]
While there can be a genetic link to developing breast cancer, nurse practitioner Karen Lowe, DNP, MSN, RNC-Ob, with the Statesir Cancer Center at CentraState, says that it’s important that both women and men understand that they can still be diagnosed with the disease without a family history. The [...]
One of Only Three Companies in New Jersey to be Selected Among 40 Large Health Care Companies in the U.S. Great Place To Work® and Fortune magazine have selected CentraState Healthcare System for the 2023 Fortune Best Workplaces in Health Care™ List. This year marks CentraState’s first time [...]
One of only six emergency departments in New Jersey, and among 53 nationally, to be recognized for exceptional and innovative performance. CentraState Medical Center’s emergency department has been selected as a recipient of the Emergency Nurses Association’s (ENA) 2023 Lantern Award for demonstrating exceptional and innovative leadership, practice, [...]
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), representing more than 200,000 surgical nurses across the country, has named CentraState Medical Center as a Center of Excellence in Surgical Safety: Smoke Evacuation. This award recognizes CentraState for its commitment to patient and workplace safety by taking a comprehensive approach to [...]
CentraState Healthcare System announced Kerrie Konior, RN, Oncology, was awarded with the DAISY Foundation’s DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Konior was selected by the DAISY committee of nurses and healthcare leaders at CentraState. “Kerrie’s commitment to her patients and loyalty to her colleagues make her a role model for [...]
Expanded cardiac diagnostic procedures provide increased access to care. CentraState Medical Center, an Atlantic Health System partner, has received licensing approval by the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) to perform elective coronary angioplasty/elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a lifesaving non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowed arteries of [...]
Leading vascular surgeon Habib Khan, MD, has joined CentraState Healthcare System, expanding vascular expertise for surgical procedures ranging from common to complex. “Nearly every vascular procedure performed across the country will be available at the community’s doorstep, including the most cutting-edge techniques,” says Dr. Khan. “My goal is to [...]
For kids, nothing beats summer’s bright and balmy months for rest, rejuvenation, and fun. But the season is always fleeting – and back-to-school concerns may soon present themselves, especially for adolescents transitioning to new schools. According to CentraState child and adolescent psychiatrist Ankur Desai, MD, the transitions from elementary [...]
