Honors & Awards
Monmouth Medical Center and The Unterberg Children’s Hospital
- Magnet recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for nursing excellence
- Consistently earns grade “A” score in Hospital Safety by the Leapfrog Group.
- Named a 2021 Top Teaching Hospital by The Leapfrog Group.
- Named a 2020 Guardian of Excellence Award® winner by Press Ganey as a top-performing health care organization that has achieved the 95th percentile or above for performance in Patient Experience.
- Ranked 29th among the 50 best major teaching hospitals in the United States by Washington Monthly.
- 2021 Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality.
- Region’s only facility designated as an Academic Comprehensive Cancer Program by the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer.
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Earned Joint Commission disease‐specific Certification:
- Acute coronary syndrome
- Hip/knee replacement
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Spine surgery
- Primary stroke (advanced certification)
- Licensed as an official Children’s Hospital for Monmouth and Ocean counties and a member of the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions.
- Designated as a NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) hospital.
- Jacqueline M. Wilentz Comprehensive Breast Center is the first in the region to be designated a Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence, the highest recognition attainable from the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers, and is a recipient of the Women’s Choice Award as one of America’s best breast centers for five consecutive years.
- American Heart Association Get with the Guidelines Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.
- Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
- First cardiopulmonary rehabilitation in Monmouth County to be certified for both cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
- Sleep Disorders Center is the first facility in Monmouth County to earn accreditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.