Morristown Medical Center

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Morristown Medical Center
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Morristown Medical Center
Geography
Location100 Madison Ave
Morristown, New Jersey 07960
U.S.
Coordinates [https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Morristown_Medical_Center&params=40_47_22_N_74_27_55_W_typ landmark_region:US-NJ_type:landmark 40°47′22″N74°27′55″W / 40.78944°N 74.46528°W / 40.78944; -74.46528]
Organisation
Funding Non-profit hospital
Type Teaching
Affiliated university Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine (additional affiliations)
Services
Emergency department Level II Trauma Center
Beds735
Helipad 7NJ5
History
OpenedOctober 17, 1893
Links
Website Morristown Medical Center Website

Morristown Medical Center (MMC) is a 735 bed [1] non-profit, tertiary, research and academic medical center located in Morristown, New Jersey, United States, 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]

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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. [5]

Morristown Medical Center was established on November 19, 1892, and opened to patients just under a year later. [6] [7] [8] With approximately 7,000 employees, the medical center is Morristown's largest employer and one of the largest employers in all of Morris County. [9]

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. [10]

Morristown Memorial Hospital opened its doors on October 17, 1893. [11] 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. [12] By the turn of the century, Morristown Memorial had an operating room, X-ray equipment, a pathology lab and an outpatient clinic. [10]

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 40-acre (16 ha) campus. [13]

Statistics

As of 2021, Morristown Medical Center includes: [14]

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. [15]

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. [16]

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. [17]

Awards and Accolades

Goryeb Children's Hospital

Goryeb Childrens Hospital
Goryeb Children's Logo.svg
Organisation
Type Children's hospital
Services
Beds65
History
Opened2002
Links
Website Goryeb Children's

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. [26] [27] [5] 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:

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