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BELLEVILLE, N.J. August 25, 2006-- With sirens and horns blaring from vintage automobiles, Clara Maass Medical Center, an affiliate of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, ceremoniously opened the campus' new Parking Deck just slightly after Noon on Tuesday, August 22 before an assembled crowd of local dignitaries, physicians and employees.
"I would like to thank all of our physicians, employees, neighbors, patients and visitors for their patience and understanding over the last 2 1/2 years, as we dealt with the challenge of replacing the former parking facility," said Thomas A. Biga, Executive Director, Clara Maass Medical Center. "With more than 700 spaces, Clara Maass Medical Center will be able to meet the parking needs of patients and visitors for years to come."
Following the welcoming remarks, twenty-six pre-schoolers from "Kids Place," Clara Maass Medical Center's day care facility, then paraded up the entrance-way into the Parking Deck aboard a variety of children's vehicles, including tricycles and cozy-coupe mobiles.
The first automobiles to ceremoniously enter the parking deck included a 1960 Ambulance driven by Arthur Lester, M.D., President of Clara Maass' Medical Staff and Eugene Chiappeta, M.D., with its siren blaring, a 1960 Lincoln Mark V driven by Mr. Biga and Thomas Kelaher, Chairman of Clara Maass Medical Center's Board of Trustees, and a 1955 Chevrolet Bellaire driven by John Love, Director of Security at Clara Maass and Michael Gentile, M.D.
Notice to Patients and Visitors to Clara Maass Medical Center CAmpus
Patients and visitors to Clara Maass Medical Center, Clara Maass Continuing Care Center and medical practices at the Premium Medical Pavilion at 36 Newark Avenue may access the parking facility from entrances located on Clara Maass Drive-at the driveway to Clara Maass Medical Center and the driveway to Premium Medical Pavilion.
The main entrance to Clara Maass Medical Center has reopened and is now the main access point for visitors to the Medical Center. Patient drop-off and pick-up is located outside the upper lobby of the Medical Center and is marked on signage along the driveway to Clara Maass. Visitors may no longer park in the temporary parking lot located behind the Medical Center, as this lot has returned to an employee parking location. Additionally, the former temporary main entrance, located at the entrance to the Ambulatory Care Center, will only be used for patient drop-off and pick-up for Same Day Surgery; visitors are to use the main entrance located in the front of the facility in order to obtain a pass to visit a patient or to access services.
Clara Maass Medical Center, an affiliate of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, is New Jersey's only community hospital selected to the 2005 Solucient 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders list. Founded in 1868 as Newark German Hospital, Clara Maass provides a complete continuum of care to residents of northern New Jersey at campuses in both Belleville and Kearny. The Centers of medical excellence include the Women's Health Center, Nuclear Medicine, the Cancer Center at Clara Maass, diagnostic cardiac services including cardiac catheterization, emergency angioplasty and rehabilitation, The Pain Management Center, The Orthopedic Spine & Joint Institute, a Vascular Center, Same Day Surgery, The Clara Maass Wound Center, The Center for Sleep Disorders, rehabilitation services and maternity services and parent education, as well as pediatrics. For a physician referral or more information about Clara Maass, call 1-888-SBHS-123 or visit www.saintbarnabas.com.
The Saint Barnabas Health Care System is New Jersey's largest
integrated health care delivery system. The System includes more
than 22,000 employees (second largest private employer in the
state), 4,750 physicians (one-fourth of the state's practicing
physicians) and 443 residents who provide treatment and services
for more than two million patients annually; 225,000 inpatients
and same day surgery patients, 450,000 Emergency Department patients
and over 1.5 million outpatients, and 17,500 births.
CONTACT:
Dennis Wilson, Jr.
Office- (973) 322-4925
dwilson@sbhcs.com
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