Patient Stories

“Everybody was great. All the people who responded from the floors and in the ED were fantastic.”

Mark Freiwald was just finishing his shift as Security Supervisor at Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus (MMCSC) in April ...

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“I think of the milestones I could have missed if it weren’t for Dr. Hakma and his team.”

For two years, Myriah Stanley struggled to find the cause of her agonizing headaches. Some doctors she consulted thought they ...

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“Both my husband and I rely on the excellent care at RWJUH Hamilton.”

Marilyn Silverman provides almost a textbook example of what it’s like to have a geriatrician as your primary care doctor. Sara ...

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“For people who are going through what I’m going through, I want them to not be afraid, to feel empowered and to remain confident about the possibilities in life.”

When New Jersey resident Ferlie Almonte was diagnosed with triple-positive breast cancer, she turned to doctors at two ...

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“I was blessed to get to the right hospital. They saved my life.”

What happened to Debora Edwards shows how the procedure known as angioplasty or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can ...

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“I’ve never had such a good surgery and hospital stay. I truly felt like I was in a 5-star resort.”

More than 800 knee and hip replacement surgeries are performed each year at the Joint Replacement Center at Monmouth Medical ...

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“If we decided to have another baby, we would deliver at MMC.”

Kathryn Norton entered Monmouth Medical Center (MMC) to have her first child July 24, 2022, and gave birth July 26. Labor lasted ...

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“I love the people at the Joint Surgery Center. Going there is like coming home.”

Cheryl McCollum, 71, of Hillsborough thought she knew what to expect when she returned to Robert Wood Johnson University ...

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“The people at RWJUH Somerset helped me realize that there was so much to fight for and that all the things that we did each day were going to add up to something.”

For Emma Strom, 18, of Doylestown, PA, the trouble started in 2018 when she was in middle school. “I had a crush on a guy and ...

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