Month: January 2010

  • Pilot program at hospital, health center deemed success

    Grant aims to shift patients from ER to health center BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Midway through a two-year study, two local health care facilities are seeing positive results from a pilot program aimed at reducing costs and shifting primarycare patients from hospital emergency rooms to community health centers. The Emergency Department at Monmouth Medical…

  • This year, let’s resolve to make a difference

    Coda • GREG BEAN Igave up making New Year’s resolutions a long time ago, because I never kept them, and I got tired of starting my new year with personal failure. But as our economy begins to heal and we feel the glimmer of optimism as a new decade begins, it might be time to…

  • Time to look into quality of care offered by ASCs

    Anyone having surgery should expect the highest quality standards at their facility. Thanks to the Health Error Accountability Law (HEAL), patient safety in N.J. hospitals is tracked through the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS). Yet, over 43 percent of surgeries occur in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), freestanding facilities specializing in outpatient surgeries and…

  • Bill is fraught with dangers to the public

    The Garden State Chiropractic Society is keeping a watchful eye on Senate bill S-565, which poses a risk to New Jersey health consumers. This scope of practice bill, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney and Senator Loretta Weinberg, is being pushed through the legislative process during the lame-duck session and holiday season. This proposal…

  • Lt. Richard E. Stahl

    Lt. Stahl, 67, of Long Branch, died Dec. 28, 2009, at St. Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. He was a lieutenant with the West Long Branch Police Department, retiring in 2007. Prior to that, he was employed at Bendix, Eatontown, and a sergeant at Monmouth College Police Department,…

  • Bertha Tober Friedman

    Mrs. Friedman, 93, of Long Branch, died Dec. 24, 2009, at St. Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Long Branch. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Estelle and Hiry West of New York City; a son and daughterin law, Sid and Sunny Friedman of Coral Springs, Fla.; five grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and several…

  • John Edward McCue

    Mr. McCue, 49, of Long Branch, died Dec. 23, 2009, at home. He resided in Fair Haven prior to relocating to Long Branch in 2004. Mr. McCue was employed by the Borough of Fair Haven Department of Public Works for several years. He was predeceased by his mother, Mary Ellen G. McCue, in 2005; and…

  • Marjorie M. Ducey

    Mrs. Ducey, 84, of the Wanamassa section of Ocean Township, died Dec. 29, 2009, at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. She was a secretary in the guidance department at Long Branch High School for 23 years, retiring in 1991. She was predeceased by her first husband, Raymond Stelmack; a brother, Robert Evans Jr.; and…

  • Irene Newman

    Mrs. Newman, 78, of Long Branch, died Dec. 29, 2009. She was a sales associate at Freedman’s Bakery, Long Branch, for several years. She was predeceased by her husband of 38 years, William J. Newman, in 2008. She is survived by a son, David Misiewicz of Long Branch; three daughters, Kerri Beth Dixon of Long…