Outpatient Oncology at Monmouth
The Leon Hess Cancer Center provides patient focused outpatient chemotherapy, infusion and transfusion services through the Oncology Day Stay Unit at Monmouth Medical Center. Additionally convenient Outpatient Infusion Centers are located in West Long Branch and Howell.
Staffed by chemotherapy-certified oncology registered nurses, the units provide a comfortable setting for outpatient chemotherapy and various procedures as ordered by the physician. Laboratory testing and other services are performed as patients rest in comfortable recliners and CBC tests are performed by the hospital's state-of-the-art laboratory. A host of other services are also provided for non-oncology as well as oncology patients, including blood and platelet transfusions, IV hydration, iron infusions, colony stimulating factors, lab services, blood draws, central line maintenance and bone marrow biopsy.
