The Integrated Medicine Alliance (IMA) Physicians of Shrewsbury/Red Bank were recently awarded National Committee on Quality Assurance/American Diabetes Association (NCQA/ADA) Provider Recognition.
The NCQA encourages the provision of comprehensive health care to individuals with diabetes. In order to encourage this provision, and to support the goal, the Diabetes Physician Recognition Program assesses physicians on performance on the ADA Web site, www.diabetes.org.
IMA joins eight other physicians or physician groups in New Jersey who have achieved this recognition. The Alliance will be honored at a dinner in mid-March.
The Central Jersey Women’s Network (CJWN) will hold its next dinner meeting March 12 from 6-9 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, Hope Road, Tinton Falls. The cost is $35, which includes dinner, dessert and coffee. Featured speaker Donna Panarello of UBS Financial Services Corp. will discuss how to handle debt sensibly, and how to plan and learn saving strategies.
The CJWN is a local network affiliate of the National Association for Female Executives. For more information, call (908) 281-9234 or e-mail Redbank@cjwn.org.
RBA Development Corp., Red Bank, recently had one of its homes selected as Home of the Month by Signature Building Systems. RBA is the builder of custom modular homes in Monmouth, Ocean and Middlesex counties. Its styles range from ranches to capes and two-story models. The firm was also awarded the Top Builder 2002 Award by Apex Homes Inc. earlier this year.
In conjunction with Crown Council’s Smiles for Life campaign, Dr. Mitchel L. Friedman, Tinton Falls, will offer teeth whitening services at reduced prices and will donate 100 percent of proceeds to children facing serious health and educational problems in communities in North America.
The Crown Council is an organization of dentists throughout North America.
Members take part in Smiles for Life for four months each year, March-June. Friedman and his team will donate time, and Discuss Dental provides supplies.
For more information, call Dr. Friedman at (732) 741-6444 or visit the Web site at www.smilesforlife.org.
Ocean Place Resort & Spa, Long Branch, has announced the appointment of Hans Mulders as general manager of the 254-room resort. Prior to joining Ocean Place, he served with Noble House Hotels & Resorts for eight years, and was president of Mulders & Associates, a sales, operations and training company from 1998-2000.
Mulders and his wife are the parents of a 5-year-old daughter.
Ocean Place also announced the promotion of Shawn Nash to executive chef. He will be responsible for overseeing a staff of approximately 40 associates, daily kitchen operations, and food revenues and product purchasing. Nash has been at the resort since an externship in 1994, and advanced to a line cook.
He held positions such as sous chef and executive sous chef before his promotion. He was also awarded Ocean Place’s Manager of the Quarter in 2000, and was recently honored as a 2003 Successful Graduate form the New Jersey Council of County Vo-Tech Schools.
The resort’s Ocean View Café is scheduled to open in May, and will accommodate up to 200 diners with dining on a boardwalk patio overlooking the Atlantic. The cafe’s menu will be an extension of the lunch menu in the resort’s dining room, which will be renovated in early 2005.
The dining room menu has been expanded and now includes an a la carte menu and spa menu with healthy alternatives.
The resort recently reopened its spa following extensive renovations, and launched a new one-year membership program, which includes discounts on all spa services, and a discount on all hotel rooms and food and beverage purchases.
Spa programs include yoga on the beach, personal trainer sessions and water sports, such as sea kayaks and water bikes.
Ocean Place Resort & Spa is managed by Tiburon Hospitality Manage-ment, Phoenix, Ariz.