CentraState Medical Center is proud to announce that it has received a 4-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 5-Star Quality Rating System. CentraState is one of only eight hospitals in New Jersey to receive 4 stars, which was the highest rating issued in New Jersey this [...]
By Zubaida Sadik, MD When your child is sick or injured, you usually know it right away. Symptoms such as a fever, cough or joint swelling are hard to overlook. Yet, as a pediatrician for more than 30 years, I’ve had patients whom I’ve found to have serious health problems [...]
The recipients of the 2016 CentraState Nursing Excellence Awards are (left to right): Eileen Christie, Juana Buergo, Laurie Huryk, and Kelly Collazo. CentraState Healthcare System recently honored four RNs with its 14th annual Nursing Excellence Awards for demonstrating exceptional clinical skill and leadership in the hospital and in the community. [...]
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 [...]
