CentraState is set to open the CentraState Health Pavilion at East Windsor. This grand opening comes nine weeks after the opening of Immediate Care Medical Walk-In of East Windsor, an affiliate of CentraState Healthcare System. The CentraState Health Pavilion at East Windsor will serve the community with the Family [...]
CentraState Drs. Maria Ciminelli and Zeeshan Khan were recently honored by the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians (NJAFP) at the NJAFP Summer Assembly in Atlantic City on June 11. Dr. Ciminelli received the Family Physician of the Year Award, which is granted annually to a physician who has [...]
CentraState Healthcare System will present a free physician lecture on bariatric surgery, “Is Weight-Loss Surgery Right for You?” on Wednesday, August 3, from 7-8 p.m. at CentraState’s Star and Barry Tobias Health Awareness Center, 901 West Main Street, Freehold. The lecture will discuss who is a candidate for bariatric [...]
CentraState Medical Center is proud to announce that it has once again earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Hospital Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The Gold Seal of Approval® is a symbol of quality that reflects an organization’s commitment to providing safe and effective patient care. [...]
By Caryn Alter, MS, RD Let’s face it—we are all busy and most of us don’t have time to carefully evaluate the packaging of everything we eat. Every few years, there are new health food trends that everyone jumps on, but some of these trends can seriously derail [...]
CentraState Medical Center recently performed its 1,000th robotic surgery procedure using the da Vinci® S™ Surgical System, the latest technology in minimally invasive surgery. Board-certified general surgeon Amit Kharod, MD, chief of the Department of Surgery at CentraState Medical Center, performed the single site laparoscopic cholecystectomy (removal of gallbladder) procedure. The [...]
By Maged Ghattas, MD The national epidemic of opioid-based prescription painkillers and heroin, an inexpensive narcotic painkiller, has been a sobering statistic, including right here in New Jersey; in 2014, more than 1,200 people, many from nearby Ocean County, died as a result of overdosing on the most [...]
CentraState Medical Center has once again earned The Joint Commission’s two-year accreditation for its Total Joint Program by demonstrating compliance with The Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety in disease-specific care. The two-year certification will continue through April 2018. The Total Joint Center of New Jersey [...]
By Mark Waciega, MD As an Emergency Department physician at CentraState Medical Center, I treat a wide spectrum of healthcare issues every day. But sometimes patients and families come to the ER when, in fact, they could have received the same level of care at an urgent or [...]
CentraState Medical Center has recently received CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ reaccreditation by the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, a nonprofit organization of cancer-fighting CEOs in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, many of its designated cancer centers, and leading health non-profit organizations and professionals. CentraState was recognized for its extraordinary commitment [...]
