Belleville, NJ – The Clara Maass Medical Center Foundation recently announced the appointment of Angela Sicoli to its Board of Trustees to a three-year term.
“We are thrilled and thankful for Angela joining our Board of Trustees,” said Robert V. Gamba, Chairman of the Clara Maass Medical Center Foundation Board. “Her experience and passion will help to foster meaningful initiatives that will enable us to continue to improve the health and wellness of our communities.”
Ms. Sicoli has owned Nutley-based Century 21 Award Agency since 1986 and is the immediate past president of NJ Realtors. Deeply involved in her local community, Ms. Sicoli has served on numerous local board committees, bringing more than 35 years of experience to her role with Clara Maass Medical Center Foundation. Throughout her storied career, she has garnered multiple awards and has helped thousands of individuals and families find homes in communities Clara Maass Medical Center serves.
“Angela brings a wealth of experience to the Clara Maass Medical Center Foundation,” said Mary Ellen Clyne, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Clara Maass Medical Center. “I am greatly looking forward to her collaboration with the other trustees on the foundation board, who are dedicated to delivering on a culture of philanthropy to directly benefit the health and wellness of the wonderfully diverse communities we serve.”
Ms. Sicoli earned a BA from Bloomfield College and her master’s degree from Montclair State University. She holds a New Jersey Real Estate Broker’s License and received the Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR) designation. She currently resides in Fairfield, NJ and previously lived in Nutley, NJ for 39 years.
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About Clara Maass Medical Center
Founded in 1869 as the Newark German Hospital, Clara Maass Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, is celebrating 150 years of service to the community. Conveniently located in Belleville, NJ, Clara Maass Medical Center is a 472-bed hospital that offers a complete continuum of care to residents of northern New Jersey. Clara Maass Medical Center has completed a state-of-the-art campus expansion of its Emergency Department, Operating Rooms and Post Anesthesia Care Unit with the addition of a four-story, 87,000 square foot medical office building that features a private Intensive Care Unit, main entrance and lobby, retail pharmacy and patient registration area. Designated by the New Jersey Department of Health as a Primary Stroke Center, the Medical Center has earned national recognition in patient safety and quality from Healthgrades and The Leapfrog Group.
The Medical Center leads the state in performing advanced treatment in ophthalmology and has earned certifications in Disease-Specific Care from The Joint Commission in Acute Coronary Syndrome, Congestive Heart Failure, Hip and Knee Replacement, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Advanced Certification in Palliative Care and has earned accreditation in Bariatric Surgery by the Aetna Institute of Quality program. In partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey – the state's only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Clara Maass Medical Center offers an excellent team of researchers and specialists to fight most types of cancer, providing close-to-home access to the latest treatment and clinical trials. Committed to the health and wellness of its community, the Center of Excellence for Latino Health at Clara Maass Medical Center was established to address the social determinants of health within the local Hispanic community.
The first in the country to be named for a nurse, the hospitals’ namesake, Clara Louise Maass was posthumously inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame Class of 2017.
About RWJBarnabas Health
RWJBarnabas Health is the largest, most comprehensive health care system in New Jersey, with a service area covering nine counties with five million people. The system includes eleven acute care hospitals – Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, Community Medical Center in Toms River, Jersey City Medical Center in Jersey City, Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus in Lakewood, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, RWJUH, RWJUH Somerset in Somerville, RWJUH Hamilton, RWJUH Rahway and Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston; three acute care children’s hospitals and a leading pediatric rehabilitation hospital (Children’s Specialized Hospital) with its multiple outpatient centers, a freestanding 100-bed behavioral health center, two trauma centers, a satellite emergency department, ambulatory care centers, geriatric centers, the state’s largest behavioral health network, comprehensive home care and hospice programs, fitness and wellness centers, retail pharmacy services, a medical group, multi-site imaging centers and two accountable care organizations. RWJBarnabas Health is New Jersey’s largest private employer – with more than 33,000 employees, 9,000 physicians and 1,000 residents and interns.
RWJBarnabas Health recently announced a partnership with Rutgers University to create New Jersey’s largest academic health care system. The collaboration will align RWJBarnabas Health with Rutgers’ education, research and clinical activities, including those at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care. The alliance will result in a multi-specialty group that will be one of the largest medical groups in the country.