By Alfred DeLuca, MD It sounds like the plot of a latest science fiction novel: Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, creating a concerning combination of potent “superbugs” and a lack of new antibiotics to treat them. Unfortunately, this is not a work of fiction. Adequately treating [...]
By Zeeshan Khan, MD When I decided to dedicate my professional practice to the field of geriatrics, I never imagined I someday would be helping to start up the new ACE unit at CentraState Medical Center. ACE stands for acute care for elders, which is a model [...]
CentraState Medical Center is offering a forum, Sweet Success: Preventing and Managing Diabetes, on Thursday, Nov. 2 from 5-8 p.m. at CentraState’s Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus, 901 W. Main Street, Freehold. Participants will learn how to take a more active role in preventing and managing their diabetes, and [...]
CentraState Medical Center has recently received the Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Bronze Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Foundation’s secondary prevention guidelines for the treatment of patients with heart failure. Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure is [...]
By Sabine Paul-Yee, MD A person far wiser than me once said that “you are what you eat.” So true when you consider that the body’s physical well-being is greatly impacted by one’s day-to-day diet regimen – of course, balanced with regular activity and disciplined rest. While [...]
CentraState Healthcare System is inviting local business owners to a free seminar about health plan offerings for 2018 on Wednesday, October 18 at The Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus, 901 W. Main Street, Freehold. Uncertainty about the Affordable Care Act is affecting premium rates and continues to unsettle [...]
By Melissa Bonilla, MD, FAAP 2:30 am, the dead of night. The alarm is set to wake you in a few short hours and then it’s off to a long day at work. But you’re already wide awake, restless and irritable from listening to your 2-year-old crying [...]
CentraState Medical Center has created an ACE (acute care for elders) unit to help senior patients recover from an injury or illness while also helping them to maintain or improve their health and well-being during their stay in the hospital. The new unit is specially designed to meet the [...]
CentraState Medical Center is offering a free lecture about HPV (human papillomavirus) prevention on Tuesday, October 10 from 6-7 p.m. at CentraState’s Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus, 901 W. Main Street, Freehold. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, according to the Centers [...]
By Amy Tilara, MD, and Kunal Gupta, MD, MBA As the medical field advances, our goal is to provide care that is more effective at diagnosing and treating problems, yet less invasive for patients. The growing field of interventional gastroenterology (GI) is one of the areas in which we’ve made major [...]
