By Sunayana Prabhu
EATONTOWN – RWJBarnabas Health’s Children’s Specialized Hospital (CSH) is now open and accepting patients. The new outpatient center located at 200 Wyckoff Road, near Boscov’s at the Monmouth Mall, opened Monday, July 18. It is the first Children’s Specialized Hospital location in Monmouth County. Monmouth Medical Center, an affiliate of the same system, will also be offering an array of programs/services at this site.
The state-of-the-art facility serves RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH) network’s mission to provide access for local children and families. “RWJBH has brought together these outpatient specialty services from across the system, into one building, allowing pediatric patients in the Monmouth County area to receive a full range of services closer to home,” said Megan Granozio, director of marketing and public relations at CSH.
CSH services offered on the campus of the Anne Vogel Family Care and Wellness Center are in tandem with the pediatric specialty services from Unterberg Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center, also part of the RWJBarnabas Children’s Health Network. The services include cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, general surgery, infectious disease, otolaryngology (ENT), pulmonology and urology.
The hospital will also be able to diagnose developmental and behavioral delays at this site.
Other outpatient pediatric rehabilitation services offered include a range of therapy and physician services – audiology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, psychology, speech and language therapy and developmental and behavioral pediatrics. Physiatry services are expected to begin this fall.
“At CSH, we recognize the rising incidence of special healthcare needs in children. This facility offers a comprehensive range of services focused on their unique needs and will provide children and families in the region a supportive environment to receive expert, family-centered care,” said Matthew B. McDonald III, M.D., president and chief executive officer of Children’s Specialized Hospital, in a release announcing the opening of the facility.
In January, Monmouth Medical Center announced that philanthropist Sheldon Vogel had donated a $10 million naming gift in memory of his wife and hospital benefactor and friend, Anne Vogel.
This generous gift came on the heels of the Vogels’ $50 million donation to the hospital in 2020 to establish the Vogel Medical Campus in Tinton Falls.
“As a resident of Monmouth County, I am thrilled about the opening of this new facility and the impact it will have for children in Eatontown and surrounding areas,” said Ed McKenna, former mayor of Red Bank and member of the CSH Foundation Board of Trustees, in the release.
Located adjacent to Boscov’s department store at the Monmouth Mall, the center also provides the region with convenient access to comprehensive women’s services, pediatric specialty services, wellness education and nutrition resources, specialty surgical services, a blood drawing station and an urgent care center.
“Being part of the RWJBarnabas Health Children’s Health Network and the Anne Vogel Family Care and Wellness Center not only allows us to enhance availability to our specialized services for children and families but also provides local families with access to a variety of medical services for their entire family in one convenient location,” said McDonald.
The Eatontown Borough Council has been looking at plans from representatives of Kushner Companies, owner of Monmouth Mall, for redevelopment of the entire property into a mixed-used complex.
Children’s Specialized Hospital is one of the leading providers of inpatient and outpatient care for children and young adults from birth to 21 years of age facing special health care challenges – from chronic illnesses and complex physical disabilities like brain and spinal cord injuries, to a full scope of developmental, behavioral and mental health concerns.
CSH has 15 other facilities across the state, including two in Ocean County.
The article originally appeared in the August 11 – 17, 2022 print edition of The Two River Times.
