A Publication of WINTER 2019 MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER SOUTHERN CAMPUS healthytogether EXPERT CARE FOR SENIORS SCREENING LUNGS, SAVING LIVES WINNING THE WAR ON SEPSIS EAT LIKE AN MVP! NJ DEVILS STAR TAYLOR HALL TELLS HOW MMCSC_Cover_Winter19_final.indd 1 12/18/18 4:33 PM A MESSAGE FROM LEADERSHIP HEALTH NEWS We’re Focused on Community ENHANCED FACILITIES The new year promises new enhancements at oretta Scott King once said that the greatness of a community is best measured Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus by the compassionate actions of its members. At RWJBarnabas Health, we (MMCSC). Our surgical suites are being modernized, share King’s belief in the power of compassionate action. including our Cystoscopy Procedure Room, offering C surgeons access to the latest advances in operating- Each of our hospitals is actively engaged in making a difference on critical community issues, including housing, employment, food security and economic room equipment and offering patients increased quality and comfort. empowerment. That includes everything from hiring locally to finding ways to make fresh, affordable produce widely available. System-wide, we’ve added RWJBarnabas Health TeleMed, a telemedicine service that improves access to care for people with transportation or scheduling challenges. PLUGGED IN To expand our community reach, we partner with other organizations, like the New MMCSC was named to the Annual Jersey Devils, to bring about positive change. One example: Collaborating with the staff Health Care’s Most Wired® survey’s of the Barnabas Health Hockey House at Newark’s Prudential Center, our specialty list of Most Wired Hospitals. physicians and nutrition experts have developed a youth hockey program that promotes Published annually by Health optimal performance and good health while building confidence, sportsmanship & Hospitals Networks (H&HN), the survey is a leading industry and life skills. It’s now available at ice-hockey rinks throughout the state. The Devils barometer measuring information technology use and organization and players, including NHL MVP Taylor Hall, also work closely with us to adoption among hospitals nationwide. bring encouragement and moments of joy to hospitalized children At Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus, we are always developing new ways to serve as a resource and promote the health of our community members at all stages of life. Our Better Health program offers community members age 55 and No Reservations older access to social events, educational seminars and preventive screenings, such The as vascular disease and lung cancer screenings. Additionally, our mobile phlebotomy American Medical service extends into our senior communities to make sure that they receive potentially Association lifesaving laboratory testing. To help keep all children safe, we partner with Safe reports that Kids Monmouth/Ocean to help raise awareness and educate children and adults on the more injury prevention. Through our partnership with the Cancer Support Community, an people international non-profit organization, we provide free programs to address the physical cook and prepare and emotional concerns of individuals, friends, family members and caregivers affected their meals by cancer. at home, the less likely they are to become obese or At RWJBarnabas Health, we believe in the greatness of the New Jersey community develop type 2 diabetes. The reason? Commercially and are glad to help improve quality of life for everyone who, like us, calls the Garden prepared meals tend to be loaded with many more State home. calories than home-cooked fare. Cooking at home has decreased by 25 percent in the last 40 years. Yours in good health, BARRY H. OSTROWSKY FRANK J. VOZOS, MD, FACS PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER RWJBARNABAS HEALTH MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER SOUTHERN CAMPUS 600 River Ave., Lakewood, NJ 08701 EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, RWJBARNABAS HEALTH 732.363.1900 | rwjbh.org/MonmouthSouth CONNECT WITH US ON @MonmouthSouthernCampus @RWJBarnabas RWJBarnabas Health Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus complies with applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability or sex. For more information, see link on our home page at www.rwjbh.org/monmouthsouth. MMCSC cumple con las leyes federales de derechos civiles aplicables y no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, nacionalidad, edad, discapacidad o sexo. ATENCIÓN: Si usted habla español, servicios de asistencia lingüística, de forma gratuita, están disponibles para usted. Llame al 732.363.1900. MMCSC konfòm ak lwa sou dwa sivil federal ki aplikab yo e li pa fè diskriminasyon sou baz ras, koulè, peyi orijin, laj, enfimite oswa sèks. ATANSYON: Si w pale Kreyòl Ayisyen, gen sèvis èd pou lang ki disponib gratis pou ou. Rele 732.363.1900. Healthy Together | 2 | Winter 2019 MMCSC_Memo_Winter19_final.indd 2 12/18/18 4:34 PM healthytogether contents WINTER 2019 18 7 4 17 6 2. WELCOME LETTER. 12. GOOD FOOD FOR EVERY 17. WINNING THE WAR A community update 10 BODY. The Wellness ON SEPSIS. MMCSC from our CEOs. on Wheels team takes is leading the charge healthy cooking and on this life-threatening 4. THE FIGHT OF HER LIFE. nutrition tips on the road complication. A Forked River woman in a very special van. defies her ovarian 18. A HEART-HELPING cancer diagnosis. 13. GETTING 0LDER, GETTING PROGRAM. Getting BETTER. Geriatric cardiac patients back on 6. FINDING HEARING LOSS psychiatry can help their feet. EARLY. Detecting hearing adults thrive as they age. issues in babies and 20. HELPING SENIORS STAY children is crucial to 9. THE DOCTOR IS 14. LIVING WELL WITH HEART HEALTHY. Customized healthy development. IN ONLINE. With FAILURE. It’s possible to care for older adults. RWJBarnabas Health feel good and stay active, 7. LUNG CANCER: SCREENING TeleMed, a doctor is on even with a diagnosis of 22. SAD: MORE THAN MERE SAVES LIVES. Low-dose call 24/7 through your heart failure. BLUES. What you need CT scanning can safely personal devices. to know about Seasonal detect lung cancer in time 16. WORKING THROUGH THE Affective Disorder. for effective treatment. 10. ‘HOW I STAY ON TOP OF PAIN. A brave young MY GAME.’ NJ Devils star woman gets her life 23. COMMUNITY CALENDAR. 8. GIVING FOR GOOD HEALTH. Taylor Hall reveals how back with the help of Education, screening Friends and neighbors to eat and stay fit like Children’s Specialized and support programs. support MMCSC. an MVP. Hospital. PB | Healthy Together | Fall 2018 Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus | RWJBH.ORG/MONMOUTHSOUTH | 3 MMCSC_TOC_Winter19_REV1.indd 3 12/19/18 12:01 PM THE FIGHT OF HER LIFE WITH MMCSC’S ONCOLOGY TEAM BY HER SIDE AT EVERY TURN, BARBARA FIEDLER HAS BOLDLY (AND SUCCESSFULLY) DEFIED HER DIAGNOSIS. RWJBarnabas Health in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey—the state’s only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center—brings a world-class team of researchers and specialists to fight alongside you, providing close-to-home access to the latest treatment and t takes a strong woman like Barbara lower abdomen. Her primary care doctor clinical trials. Fiedler to stare down a disease like suspected an infection and prescribed Iovarian cancer. But thanks to her resolve an antibiotic, which was ineffective. She to live, the support of her family and friends then saw her gynecologist, who found a and the caring and expertise of her treatment tumor in one of her ovaries. “When I was If you or a loved one are team, Barbara is still intent on living life to first diagnosed it was a shock, because I’ve the fullest. “No matter what the consequences been a healthy person all my life,” Barbara struggling with a cancer are, you deal with it,” says Barbara, 75, of recalls. “But I got mad and I said, ‘We are diagnosis and need answers Forked River. “You don’t just lay down and going to conquer this.’” and support, visit rwjbh.org/ die. You never give up.” Barbara’s odds at that point were both BeatCancer. Barbara’s ordeal started two years ago, scary and uncertain. The Ovarian Cancer when she felt cramping and bloating in her Research Alliance reports that fewer than Healthy Together | 4 | Winter 2019 MMCSC_OvarianCancer_Winter19_final.indd 4 12/18/18 4:36 PM Above left: Barbara Fiedler spends some time with the new friends she has made on her MMCSC treatment team. Above right: Barbara and her husband, Bill, are enjoying life once again. half of women diagnosed with ovarian care as Barbara fought through early side but they were in emotional pain because of cancer (46.5 percent) survive after five effects. “We have really fantastic nurses in what I was going through. But we had to do years. That survival rate, however, jumps to our infusion rooms who are not only good this fight together, because it’s your family 94 percent if the cancer is detected early, at giving patient care, but at caring for the that gives you courage.” the American Cancer Society says. patient as a whole,” Dr. Cohen says. Barbara’s existing circle of friends According to Barbara’s lead After chemotherapy, Barbara started was also incredibly supportive, she says. oncologist, faithfully following treatment getting favorable reports. Then, in January But along her treatment journey, she also recommendations also is crucial. “The key 2018, a computed tomography (CT) scan found new friends: the infusion nurses at to Barbara getting better was working with uncovered a small tumor near her bile duct. both Monmouth Medical Centers. “This me and putting her trust in my expertise,” She underwent a stent implant to prevent may sound corny, but there aren’t any says Seth Cohen, MD, Regional Medical bile duct blockage, which would have better human beings on this earth than the Director of Oncology-Clinical Research caused jaundice.