Morristown Medical Center Explained

Morristown Medical Center
Org/Group:Atlantic Health System
Address:100 Madison Ave
Morristown, New Jersey 07960
U.S.
Funding:Non-profit
Type:Teaching
Beds:735
Affiliation:Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine (additional affiliations)
Website:Morristown Medical Center Website
Founded:October 17, 1893
Emergency:Level II Trauma Center
Helipad:7NJ5

Morristown Medical Center (MMC) is a 735 bed[1] non-profit, tertiary, research and academic medical center located in Morristown, New Jersey, serving northern New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area. The hospital is the flagship facility of Atlantic Health System and is the largest medical center in the system, as well as in Morris County and all of northwestern New Jersey. Morristown Medical Center is affiliated with the Sidney Kimmel School of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University.[2]

The facility is an American College of Surgeons designated Level I and Level 2 trauma center[3] by the State of New Jersey and has a rooftop helipad to receive and dispatch medevac patients.[4] Goryeb Children's Hospital is located on the campus of Morristown Medical Center and specializes in the treatment of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults up to the age of 21.

Morristown Medical Center was established on November 19, 1892, and opened to patients just under a year later.[5] [6] [7] With approximately 7,000 employees, the medical center is Morristown's largest employer and one of the largest employers in all of Morris County.[8]

History

In 1889, Myra Brookfield bequeathed her home and property for the purpose of establishing a hospital. She stipulated that the community-at-large raise $15,000 to buy equipment and hire staff within three years of her death. In 1893, the house was too small for the hospital, so it was sold and the profits were put toward the purchase of a bigger facility – a former parsonage in downtown Morristown, used as a makeshift hospital by George Washington more than 100 years earlier.[9]

Morristown Memorial Hospital opened its doors on October 17, 1893.[10] Early on, the hospital established an isolation unit for patients with contagious diseases. As large-scale epidemics were a fact of life in 19th-century America, that ward helped to slow or prevent the spread of dangerous diseases in the community. In 1898 a new building for the hospital was donated by George Goelet Kip, named the Anna Margaret Home for Convalescents in honor of his late wife.[11] By the turn of the century, Morristown Memorial had an operating room, X-ray equipment, a pathology lab and an outpatient clinic.[9]

The hospital hired Jennie A. Dean, its first female doctor, to run the pathology lab in 1913, a full seven years before American women had the right to vote. Her sister, Elvira Dean, was hired to run the X-ray department.

In a ruling issued in June 2015, Tax Court Judge Vito Bianco ruled that the hospital would be required to pay property taxes on nearly all of its 40acres campus.[12]

Statistics

As of 2021, Morristown Medical Center includes:[13]

Specialties

Morristown Medical Center is verified as a Level I Regional Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons, designated a Level II by the state of New Jersey and a Level III Regional Perinatal Center.[14]

Specialty areas include:

Affiliations and accreditations

Morristown Medical Center is the official hospital of the New York Jets football team. The Atlantic Health Jets Training Center in Florham Park, NJ, is the corporate headquarters for the team franchise. The campus includes a 120,000 square foot structure to house indoor training facilities and classrooms; and an 86,000 square foot field house where Jets players practice on a full-size, indoor, artificial-turf field.[15]

Morristown Medical Center is mainly affiliated with the Sidney Kimmel School of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University.

Morristown Medical Center is a Magnet Hospital for Excellence in Nursing Service, the highest level of recognition achievable from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for facilities that provide acute care services.[16]

Awards and Accolades

Goryeb Children's Hospital

Goryeb Childrens Hospital
Beds:65
Type:Children's hospital
Website:Goryeb Children's
Founded:2002
Mapframe:no

Goryeb Children's Hospital is a children's hospital located on the campus of Morristown Medical Center and provides pediatric care from infancy to age 21.[25] [26] [27] The hospital has a wide range of pediatric specialties and subspecialties. In 2019, an expanded Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with 15 beds opened to increase the number of pediatric critical cases the hospital could handle.[28]

The hospital also houses a 34-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit dedicated to the care of newborns.[29] The PICU and the NICU are directly attached to several Ronald McDonald House sleeping rooms for parents and siblings.[30]

Services

Pediatric services offered at Goryeb Children's Hospital include:[31]

Awards

In 2020, Goryeb Children's Hospital received two awards from the Women's Choice Awards hospital rankings; Best Children's Hospital and Best Pediatric Emergency Care.[32]

Notable deaths

The following list is arranged chronologically, based on date of death:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: American Hospital Directory - Morristown Medical Center (310015) - Free Profile. 2020-10-28. www.ahd.com.
  2. Web site: Frequently Asked Questions Internal Medicine Residency Program Morristown Medical Center NJ. 2020-10-28. www.atlantichealth.org. 2020-09-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20200919030913/https://www.atlantichealth.org/professionals-medical-education/residencies/internal-medicine-residency-morristown/frequently-asked-questions.html. live.
  3. Web site: Trauma Centers. 2020-04-18. American College of Surgeons. en. 2020-10-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20201028053906/https://www.facs.org/search/trauma-centers?state=Nj. live.
  4. Web site: AirNav: 7NJ5 - Morristown Medical Center Heliport. 2020-10-28. airnav.com.
  5. Encyclopedia: . Carter-Wallace . 540 . 9780813533254 . 2011-09-26 . Lurie . Maxine N. . Lurie . Maxine . Michael Siegel . M. D. . Mappen . Marc . 2004 .
  6. Book: Morristown Memorial Hospital: a century of caring, 1892–1992 .
  7. Web site: 2017 . About Morristown Medical Center . 2023-09-20 . Morristown Medical 125 Year Anniversary . en-US.
  8. Web site: Hunscher . Meghan . Healthcare Industry Morris County EDC NJ . 2022-03-24 . Morris County EDC . en-US.
  9. Web site: wammc.org History of the Women's Association for Morristown Medical . 2022-09-15 . wammc . en.
  10. Book: Morristown: A Military Headquarters of the American Revolution. Rae. John W.. 2002. Arcadia Publishing. Great Britain. 9780738524009. July 17, 2014. September 26, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200926054335/https://books.google.com/books?id=3c95MVj5440C&pg=PA60. live.
  11. Book: Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. 1916. September 4, 2019. September 26, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200926054338/https://books.google.com/books?id=4x_cAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA411. live.
  12. Darragh, Tim. "Morristown hospital loses property tax court case; judge says facility does not meet non-profit status", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, June 26, 2015. Accessed July 25, 2016. "Morristown Medical Center should pay property taxes on virtually all of its 40-acre property in town, a tax court judge ruled Friday in a decision closely watched by other hospitals across New Jersey.... The hospital, which employs 5,500 people, is the largest employer in Morristown."
  13. Web site: NJ Department of Health . 2022-03-27 . www.state.nj.us.
  14. Web site: Lindner . Linda . 2021-08-03 . Morristown Medical Center re-verified as Level 1 Trauma Center . 2022-03-25 . NJBIZ . en-US.
  15. Web site: Going Green Atlantic Health becomes the official healthcare provider of the New York Jets.. live. https://archive.today/20140727004244/http://overlookview.com/Old_Articles/September_2008/article_01.html. July 27, 2014. July 17, 2014. Overlook View. DHA Publications.
  16. Web site: 2019-01-16 . Morristown Medical Center Receives 5th Consecutive Magnet . 2022-03-25 . Morristown, NJ Patch . en.
  17. Web site: Bergeron . Tom . 2021-07-27 . Morristown, Hackensack tie for top spot in U.S. News hospital rankings . 2022-03-25 . ROI-NJ . en-US.
  18. Web site: Morristown Medical Center ranked in top 1 percent of U.S. hospitals by consumer publication . 2022-03-25 . Morristown Green . en-US.
  19. Web site: Morristown Medical Center makes Newsweek list of world’s best hospitals . 2022-03-25 . Morristown Green . en-US.
  20. Web site: 100 great hospitals in America 2020 . 2022-03-25 . www.beckershospitalreview.com.
  21. Web site: MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER . 2022-03-25 . Hospital and Surgery Center Ratings Leapfrog Group . en.
  22. Web site: The 2021 Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals . 2022-03-25 . Fortune . en.
  23. Web site: Healthcare Equality Index . 2022-03-25 . Human Rights Campaign . en-US.
  24. Web site: Morristown Medical Center - Women's Choice Award. 2020-10-28. womenschoiceaward.com.
  25. Web site: Adolescent & Teen Medicine. Atlantic Health. 2020-01-20. 2020-10-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20201028053907/https://www.atlantichealth.org/conditions-treatments/childrens-health/adolescent-medicine.html. live.
  26. Web site: SWLP Goryeb Children's Hospital. 2020-08-29. SWLP. en. 2020-09-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20200926054346/https://www.studentwishlistproject.org/goryeb. live.
  27. Web site: Goryeb Children's Hospital at Morristown Medical Center. 2020-08-29. en-US. 2020-09-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20200926054353/https://njarch.org/resource/goryeb-childrens-hospital-at-morristown-medical-center/. live.
  28. Web site: Goryeb Children's Hospital Opens Expanded Pediatric ICU. 2019-10-15. Morristown, NJ Patch. 2020-01-31. 2020-01-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20200131170833/https://patch.com/new-jersey/morristown/goryeb-children-s-hospital-opens-expanded-pediatric-icu. live.
  29. Web site: Neonatology. Atlantic Health. 2020-01-20. 2020-09-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20200926054355/https://www.atlantichealth.org/conditions-treatments/childrens-health/neonatology.html. live.
  30. Web site: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Atlantic Health. 2020-01-20. 2020-06-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20200603190515/https://www.atlantichealth.org/conditions-treatments/childrens-health/pediatric-critical-care/pediatric-intensive-care-unit.html. live.
  31. Web site: Children's Health Services. Atlantic Health. 2020-01-20. 2020-04-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20200412004625/https://www.atlantichealth.org/conditions-treatments/childrens-health.html. live.
  32. Web site: Goreyb Children's Hospital - Women's Choice Award. 2020-10-28. womenschoiceaward.com.
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  34. News: Rev. Dr. Powell, Author, 79, Dies. Retired Episcopal Clergyman, Former President of Hobart College, Was Noted Lecturer . Dr. Lyman Pierson Powell, retired Episcopal clergyman, author and one-time president of Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., died this afternoon in Morristown (N.J.) Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. His age was 79. His home was at 100 Hanover Road, [Mountain Lakes]. . The New York Times . February 11, 1946 . 2010-03-05 . 2018-07-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180722190803/https://www.nytimes.com/1946/02/11/archives/rev-dr-powell-author-79-dies-retired-episcopal-clergyman-former.html . live .
  35. https://www.nytimes.com/1961/09/25/archives/e-bertraiiott-aide-jersey-clerk-of-morris-county-for-more-than-50.html "E. Bertram Mott, an Aide in Jersey"
  36. News: George Washington Jr. is Dead. Invented an Engraving Device . George Washington Jr., former treasurer of the now defunct George Washington Coffee Company and inventor of a photo-electric engraver, a device widely used by newspapers, died today at Morristown Memorial Hospital. He was 67 years old and lived at 10 Harter Road. . The New York Times . December 27, 1966 . 2015-02-23 . 2018-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180312065218/https://www.nytimes.com/1966/12/27/archives/george-washington-jr-is-dead-invented-an-engraving-device.html . live .
  37. News: Edward Cavanagh, Jr. Dies . Edward F. Cavanagh Jr., an innovative New York City Fire Commissioner and later a Deputy Mayor, died Tuesday in Morristown (N.J.) Memorial Hospital after suffering a stroke. He was 79 years old and lived in Boca Raton, Fla. . The New York Times . June 19, 1986 . 2010-03-25 . Eric . Pace . 2015-05-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150505013409/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/19/obituaries/edward-cavanagh-jr-dies-former-fire-commissioner.html . live .
  38. Web site: Anne Homer Doerflinger. Fiction Writer, 87. Anne Homer Doerflinger, a writer whose stories appeared in numerous magazines, died on Tuesday at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. She was 87 and lived in Convent Station, N.J. The cause was cancer, her family said.. The New York Times. May 21, 1995. September 26, 2020. March 1, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190301013542/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/21/obituaries/anne-homer-doerflinger-fiction-writer-87.html. live.

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