Hurricane Sandy

Mobile Emergency Room Serving Patients at Ocean Medical Center

Massive mobile unit taking pressure off overloaded emergency departments across county

It, literally, is an emergency room on wheels. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy’s destruction at the Jersey Shore, and the resulting increase in emergency room patients that came with it, hospitals from across the region found their emergency departments overstressed. The solution to that issue has come in the form of a Mobile Satellite Emergency Department. Effectively, the MSED, as it’s called, is an emergency department on wheels – plus some tents. After Sandy hit, two such units were set up in New Jersey, one in Hoboken and one at Ocean Medical Center in Brick. The Brick unit, staffed and supported by other hospital systems across the state, primarily Hackensack University Medical Center where it is based, provides what hospital …

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New E.R., Expansion Approved for Ocean Medical Center

Hospital receives the go-ahead from Brick planning board

Brick's planning board has approved a plan by Ocean Medical Center to expand the hospital's emergency department and add additional floors to the facility. The emergency department will grow from an 8,000 square foot facility to a 46,000 square foot facility under the plan. The expansion plan calls for the emergency department to double its capacity from 24 beds to 49 beds, and increase the department's physical size by more than five times, from 8,000 square feet to 46,000 square feet. The hospital currently has about 51,000 emergency room visits per year, according to Charles Griffin, one of the architects of the proposed new addition. He told planning board members at a hearing that the current E.R. facility is less than half of the …

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Local Group Gives Big to Brick's Chronically Ill

Local Hannah Banana Foundation gives to Ocean Medical Center patients. Volunteers are impressed.

Hannah Banana Foundation visited the Ocean Medical Center Wednesday,  bearing therapeutic gifts for chronicallly ill, hospitalized patients to be distributed as needed throughout the coming months. Volunteers from Brick and the surrounding communities set up an assembly line to package the donated gifts, which included word puzzles, notepads, pens, coloring books, markers, playing cards and response postcards.  Toms River dentist and Middletown resident, Gary Prisand D.M.D., P.A., and two volunteers from the Hannah Banana Foundation came to Ocean Medical to help set up and delegate.  Twice a year, visits like these are made to 18 hospitals in the New York and New Jersey area to fill 10,000 banana yellow bags. Each bag is given to …

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Ocean Medical Center Seeks Expanded E.R., Additional Floors

Some local residents ready to oppose expansion plan, however

Ocean Medical Center plans to expand its emergency department from an 8,000 square foot facility to a 46,000 square foot facility in an ambitious move that will drastically change the appearance and reach of the Jack Martin Boulevard hospital. After a nearly four hour-long meeting of the township's planning board Wednesday night, the decision on whether to approve the hospital's plan was carried to another meeting in January, but hospital officials laid out their plans in detail for the greatly-expanded facility. "One of the first things I learned when I joined Ocean Medical Center, and it was an alarming fact, was that 25 percent of our emergency patients are treated in hallway stretchers," said Dean Lin, Ocean Medical Center's president…

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