Hospital Again Partners with Monmouth County Habitat Chapter for Local Build
Donning hardhats and digging in for the ceremonial groundbreaking are, from left, Diane Kinnane, Executive Director for Habitat for Humanity in Monmouth County; Anna Burian, Vice President for Ambulatory Services for MMC; Jaclyn Fargo, Marketing Director for WRAT-FM and WJRZ-FM; Long Branch Mayor John Pallone and David Hinton, Habitat’s Board President.
Long Branch, NJ – October 2, 2020 – Monmouth Medical Center (MMC) took part in a groundbreaking ceremony on September 22 with the local Habitat for Humanity for a new build in Long Branch.
This is not the first partnership for Monmouth Medical Center and Habitat for Humanity in Monmouth County. In addition to the latest build on Seaview Avenue, MMC has previously supported and helped in the building of two new homes in Monmouth County. An affordable two-family home was completed in Atlantic Highlands in the spring of 2018, followed by a three bedroom/one bathroom home that was also built in the Troutman’s Creek neighborhood of Long Branch.
“We are proud to celebrate Habitat for Humanity’s 59th build in Monmouth County and Monmouth Medical Center’s third build sponsorship with them,” said Eric Carney, President and CEO of MMC and Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus. “To expand our community reach, we partner with other organizations, like Habitat for Humanity, to bring about positive change. It is a commitment that is directly aligned with RWJBarnabas Health’s Social Impact and Community Investment Practice where a collective impact approach is a key driver of our mission to address the social, economic and environmental conditions that contribute to poor health outcomes, reduced life expectancy and higher costs.”
CAPTION: Donning hardhats and digging in for the ceremonial groundbreaking are, from left, Diane Kinnane, Executive Director for Habitat for Humanity in Monmouth County; Anna Burian, Vice President for Ambulatory Services for MMC; Jaclyn Fargo, Marketing Director for WRAT-FM and WJRZ-FM; Long Branch Mayor John Pallone and David Hinton, Habitat’s Board President.
About Monmouth Medical Center:
Monmouth Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH) facility, along with The Unterberg Children’s Hospital, is a regional teaching campus for Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. As the first hospital in Monmouth and Ocean counties, Monmouth Medical Center offers the most experienced surgeons in robotics and other minimally invasive procedures as well as bariatric and joint and spine surgery. Monmouth Medical Center delivers more babies annually than all other hospitals in Monmouth and Ocean counties combined and the fourth most in the state and was recently one of nine New Jersey hospitals recognized by Newsweek magazine as a top maternity hospital. The hospital offers access to the region’s top cardiologists and the award-winning, nationally recognized RWJBarnabas heart centers. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has conferred Magnet® recognition for Monmouth Medical Center as a reflection of its nursing professionalism, teamwork and superiority in patient care. It is the only hospital in Monmouth and Ocean counties to consistently receive an “A” Hospital Safety Score by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit organization. RWJBarnabas Health and Monmouth Medical Center, in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey — the state's only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center — brings a world class team of researchers and specialists to fight alongside patients, providing close-to-home access to the latest treatment and clinical trials.
CONTACT: Kathy Horan
(732) 546-6317
Kathy.Horan@rwjbh.org