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How Total Knee Replacement Surgery Landed Her Back on the Slopes

Before my surgeries, it was increasingly more difficult to walk, to exercise, to ski because of the pain. Consequently, the knee replacement surgery was like a miracle to me.
Carol Welsch of West Orange, NJ, had such a positive experience when she had her first knee replacement surgery at Clara Maass ...
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Marie's Story

I have spent most of my 95 years living in Belleville and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Clara Maass Medical Center is such an important part of our community and also my family. From the birth of my third child, ...
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Dawn's Story

Clara Maass Medical Center has been a part of my family for as long as I can remember.
All six of us were born at Clara so, for me and my siblings, giving back is very important. Our mother has been a nurse there ...
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Robert's Story

If you are like me, you want a hospital that is going to provide you with excellent medical attention, a place where you and your loved ones are going to receive quality care from a hospital you trust.

When it comes to my family, I know I can count on Clara Maass Medical Center, my hospital since 1957.

When you or a family member is in need of medical treatment, be that emergency care, surgery, cardiac rehabilitation or to bring ...
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84: Just a Number

In late May 2015, Joseph was the first patient to receive the device at an Essex County facility, making CMMC the first hospital in the county to implant the only FDA-approved Heart Failure monitoring device proven to significantly reduce hospital admissions.
Joseph Zjawin, 84, of Newark, NJ, exclaimed he felt like “a new man” now more confident in managing his Heart Failure following ...
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