PERTH AMBOY, NJ, February 23, 2010…Joseph J. Jankowski, Esq., of Morganville, has been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Raritan Bay Medical Center. Jankowski’s appointment was part of a new slate of officers elected recently during the board’s annual business meeting. Raritan Bay Medical Center President and CEO Michael R. D’Agnes announced the appointment of the new officers during the meeting.
Other newly elected officers include Deborah Tripod of Island Heights, vice chairman; Michael J. Losch of Shrewsbury, treasurer and Dennis Doll of Monroe Township, secretary.
Mr. Jankowski was elected to the hospital’s Board of Directors in 1991 and has served as vice chairman of the board. He is a partner in the law firm of Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, PA, in Woodbridge.
Mrs. Tripod was elected to the board in 2003, has served as board secretary and on the Finance & Personnel Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee and the Audit Committee. She is president and owner of Englert, Inc., in Perth Amboy.
Mr. Losch was elected to the board in 2005 and has served on the Executive, Finance and Executive Compensation Committees. He is chief financial officer, secretary and treasurer of Ridge Partners, LLC.
Mr. Doll was elected to the board in 2008 and has served on the Finance, Affiliation and Audit Committees. He is President and CEO of Middlesex Water Co. in Iselin.
A New Jersey state-designated primary stroke center, the hospital has locations in Perth Amboy and Old Bridge and is ranked among the nation’s top ten percent of hospitals in the care of stroke patients*, a position the hospital has held for the past five consecutive years. Raritan Bay Medical Center (RBMC) is also one of less than two percent of hospitals nationally to achieve re-designation as a Magnet Hospital, recognizing nursing excellence, and has been the recipient of a New Jersey Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield patient care quality award for the past three years. The hospital recently celebrated the opening of its new Medical Pavilion at Woodbridge, 740 Route 1 North, Iselin, providing urgent care services 365 days a year, housing Bay Obstetrics and Gynecology and comprehensive physical therapy services.
Licensed for 501 beds with a medical staff of more than 500, RBMC provides medical-surgical, maternity, pediatric, general and critical care, as well as adult behavioral health, emergency and interventional cardiac and same day surgery services. A leader in cardiovascular care, RBMC is one of only twelve New Jersey hospitals currently participating in a national Johns Hopkins University Medical Center demonstration project studying the benefits of providing elective angioplasty in hospitals without onsite cardiac surgery.
The hospital has several specialty services including the Center for Wound Healing, Center for Sleep Medicine, Center for Women and Pulmonary and Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Programs. RBMC is a major clinical affiliate of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Network and affiliate of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
For more information about services, visit www.rbmc.org. For a free physician referral and practice information call 1-800-DOCTORS.
*HealthGrades, Inc. 2009 ratings
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