Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical Center, also known as Mountainside Hospital, is an acute-care hospital located in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States. The hospital has 365 beds and serves Northern Essex County.[1] A part of the Hackensack University Health Network, Mountainside Hospital is one of only two for-profit hospitals in New Jersey.[2] It is also a clinical campus and affiliate of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine and provides clinical clerkship education for the medical school's osteopathic medical students.[3]
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| Geography | |
| Location | Glen Ridge, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 40°48′43″N 74°12′14″W / 40.812°N 74.204°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Medicare (US), Medicaid |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Services | |
| Standards | JCAHO |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 365 |
| History | |
| Opened | in 1891 as "The Mountainside Hospital" |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
About
editAs of 2020, Mountainside Hospital provides 12 specialties and hosts 47 full-time interns and residents.[4] It is designated a community perinatal center, intermediate, and a primary stroke center.[5]
In 2021 it received from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association a Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and a Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll Award.[6]
It owns and operates two centers for immediate injury and acute illness care, one in Bloomfield and the other in Clifton.[7]
History
editIn the summer of 1890, Margaret Jane Merewether Power of Montclair, New Jersey came upon a small child who had fallen from a third story window, and was in need of serious medical attention. Upset at the fact that there was no nearby health care facility, Mrs. Power called upon other ladies in her social circle, and vowed to work toward a solution to the problem. In 1891,[8] a three-story building was purchased and prepared to care for patients. Dr. John J.H. Love was named the first President of the Medical and Surgical Staff of "The Mountainside Hospital". The word "The" was later dropped from the hospital's formal name, making it simply "Mountainside Hospital".[9]
On May 31, 2007, it was purchased by Merit Health Systems, a privately owned for-profit Louisville, Kentucky hospital management company that acquires, owns and operates community hospitals. Merit continued to operate the hospital until February 1, 2012, when ownership of the hospital was transferred to Montclair Health System, LLC, a joint venture between LHP Hospital Group, Inc. (LHP) (now Ardent Health Services) and Hackensack Meridian Health, who together also operate Hackensack University Medical Center at Pascack Valley in Westwood, New Jersey.[10]
In popular culture
editOn the American television drama series The Sopranos, A.J. Soprano is placed in the psychiatric ward at Mountainside Hospital after he tries to drown himself in the family pool. Later, his father Tony Soprano gets a bill of $2,200 per day for warehousing his son at the mental health facility.
People
edit- Kevin O'Connor, D.O., physician to President Joe Biden, completed his family medicine residency at Mountainside Medical Center and his doctorate medical education at the hospital's affiliated New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.
References
edit- ^ "365-bed Mountainside Hospital achieves Stage 1 meaningful use". Healthcare IT News. December 2, 2011. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
- ^ "New owners for Mountainside Hospital". blog.nj.com. 5 June 2007. Retrieved June 17, 2009.
- ^ "Clinical Education Institutions | College of Osteopathic Medicine | New York Tech". www.nyit.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-02-14. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ "American Hospital Directory - Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical Center (310054) - Free Profile". www.ahd.com. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
- ^ "NJ Department of Health". www.state.nj.us. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
- ^ Local, Montclair (25 October 2021). "Hackensack Meridian Mountainside wins award for stroke treatment | Montclair Local News". www.montclairlocal.news. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
- ^ "Mountainside Hospital Buys 2 Immedicenter Offices In NJ". Montclair, NJ Patch. 2021-05-03. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
- ^ "NEW BREAST IMAGING TECHNOLOGY AT HACKENSACK MERIDIAN MOUNTAINSIDE MEDICAL CENTER DELIVERS MAMMOGRAMS IN 3D AND ENHANCES DELIVERY OF CARE". TAPinto. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
- ^ "Mountainside Hospital". Archived from the original on 2009-06-04. Retrieved 2009-06-17.. Accessed June 17, 2009.
- ^ www.mountainsidehosp.com http://www.mountainsidehosp.com/News-and-Events/News/Mountainside-Hospital-News-2012/Mountainside-Hospital-Set-for-a-New-Phase-of-Commu.aspx?clientcache=0. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
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