Hospice News

Monmouth Medical Center Hospice Team
Named Among the Best

Recently, the Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center Inpatient Unit at Monmouth Medical Center, an affiliate of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, was named “Among the Best” in the 2007 Advance for Nurses Editor’s Choice Best Nursing Team contest.

Advance for Nurses is a bi-weekly publication which provides concise, practical information on clinical, management, professional and career development issues for nurses practicing in all areas of the profession. Each year the publication’s Best Nursing Team contest generates hundreds of entries from the 10 regions the magazine serves.  The Monmouth Medical Center hospice team was recognized in the Greater New York/New Jersey Metro area edition.

“From the hospice and palliative care center’s inception in 2000, the nursing team has displayed tremendous initiative,” describes Ellen Coughlin, MPA, RN, Vice President of Patient and Family Services for the Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center.  “Many of the unit’s nurses were on staff at Monmouth Medical Center and believed passionately in the need for a unit dedicated to caring for patients at the end of life.  All of the nurses rolled up their sleeves and pitched in to transform the unit into a thriving care center.”

Established in 1981, the Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, located at 95 Old Short Hills Road in West Orange, provides comprehensive care for patients with advanced illness, and their families, throughout ten counties in the State of New Jersey.  The Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center supports inpatient units at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, and Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, NJ, as well as Van Dyke Hospice and Palliative Care Center at Community Medical Center in Toms River.  It also provides home care and services for individuals in long-term care and assisted living facilities

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