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Monmouth Medical Center must not leave Long Branch. NJ officials must stop it
They call it “modernization.” I call it what it is: abandonment. RWJBarnabas Health’s plan to strip Monmouth Medical Center of nearly all its vital services and move them out of Long Branch would take away the community’s safety net.
More Than 500 Attend Hearing On Moving Monmouth Medical Center's Hospital License To Tinton Falls
More than 500 people lined up in the cold to attend Thursday's public hearing on RWJBarnabas' request to transfer the hospital license from Monmouth Medical Center to a new hospital it is building in Tinton Falls.
Pallone and NJ mayors erupt over plan they say will create a ‘health care desert’
Several Monmouth County mayors, religious leaders and council members have joined Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J. 6th District, to help in his fight to keep Monmouth Medical Center as a full-service hospital.
Why moving Monmouth Medical Center out of Long Branch is so harmful
Don’t let RWJ Barnabas fool the public. The application is to transfer the hospital license. Whatever they keep in Long Branch cannot include services of an acute care hospital like major surgery, delivery of babies, ICU or anything that requires a hospital stay overnight for care.
Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today announced his strong opposition to RWJ Barnabas Health’s (RWJBH) plan to move its hospital from Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch to a new hospital in Tinton Falls. The plan would move key services such as labor and delivery, acute care in-patient beds and the hospital license to the new facility in Tinton Falls leaving behind a shell of the current services.