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 [...]
CentraState Healthcare System is now accepting enrollments into four, exciting, educational and fitness-oriented camp programs for boys and girls offered this summer at CentraState’s Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus, 901 West Main Street, Freehold. Anatomy Academy camp, offered to kids in grades five through eight, will give youngsters an [...]
The American College of Radiology (ACR), a national organization that sets quality standards for radiation oncology, has reaccredited The Karen Olbis Radiation Oncology Center at CentraState, demonstrating a consistently high level of patient care in this program. The ACR accreditation process involves a third-party peer review and evaluation of patient [...]
By Alfred DeLuca, M.D. We’ve all heard about the Zika virus outbreak in faraway places like South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands (Hawaii, Samoa) and Central America--but how does it affect us here in New Jersey? The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have confirmed nearly 400 travel-related [...]
By Marc Feingold, MD The New Jersey Department of Health reported last year that more than seven percent of the people in our state have been diagnosed with diabetes. And another 190,000 people have diabetes but have not yet been diagnosed. Three categories of New Jerseyans are at highest [...]
By Troy Sukkarieh, MD The number of younger men diagnosed with prostate cancer has increased nearly six-fold in the last 20 years, according to recent studies. Equally concerning, in these younger men is a higher rate of prostate cancer being more aggressive and therefore more life threatening than in older [...]
CentraState Healthcare System is offering free prostate and colorectal cancer screenings on Wednesday, June 15, at 6 p.m. at The Statesir Cancer Center at CentraState Medical Center, 901 W. Main Street, Freehold. The screenings are for men 40 years of age and older who have never had a PSA [...]
CentraState Healthcare System will present a free physician lecture on bariatric surgery, “Is Weight-Loss Surgery Right for You?” on Wednesday, June 1, 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 [...]
