Integrative Health & Medicine Program Announces Opening of Satellite Office at Raritan Bay Medical Center – Old Bridge

Hackensack Meridian Health’s Integrative Health & Medicine program is pleased to announce it is opening a new location at Raritan Bay Medical Center - Old Bridge today.

The new center, an expansion of the Integrative Health & Medicine program the network launched in 2016, will provide nutrition consultations, acupuncture and health psychology consultations that focus on all aspects of health and wellness.

"The team at Old Bridge has provided integrative health therapies to patients in the hospital since 2004 and we are so excited to open our first outpatient satellite office at this location,” said Lori Knutson, R.N., BSN, HNB-BC, Administrative Director of Hackensack Meridian Integrative Health & Medicine.

Integrative health and medicine focuses on the health and well-being of the whole person — mind, body and spirit. It addresses the impact of lifestyle, environment, and genetics on an individual’s health and well-being, and understands that the provider/patient relationship is a vital component in the healing process.

The network’s Integrative Health & Medicine program focuses on five pillars of health and well-being: sleep, activity, purpose, nutrition, and resilience.

Hackensack Meridian Health launched its Integrative Health & Medicine program in July 2016 with the opening of its first clinic at the Hackensack Meridian Health Village at Jackson. Clinical services have been provided at this location since then and the practice continues to grow in terms of providers, services, and partnerships.

"I am pleased to see our program growing so quickly in such a short time and I look forward to overseeing the new location,” said David Leopold, MD, DABFM.

"As founders of the Division of Integrative Health program at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Paula O’Neill, MS, RN-BC, and I have been working on the inpatient side for close to 15 years and have seen the positive effects of integrative health therapies,” said Nina Regevik, MD. "I’m extremely proud to see the development of this outpatient facility to service even more people in our community."

The clinic will be open on Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and is located at Medical Arts Building at 3 Hospital Plaza, Suite 203, Old Bridge, NJ. For more information or to schedule a consultation, please call 732-263-7999.

ABOUT HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH

Hackensack Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization that is the most comprehensive and truly integrated health care network in New Jersey, offering a complete range of medical services, innovative research and life-enhancing care. Hackensack Meridian Health comprises 16 hospitals from Bergen to Ocean counties, which includes three academic medical centers – Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, JFK Medical Center in Edison; two children’s hospitals - Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital in Hackensack, K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital in Neptune; 11 community hospitals - Ocean Medical Center in Brick, Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair, Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy, Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin, Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, Raritan Bay Medical Center in Old Bridge, and Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in Edison and Shore Rehabilitation Institute in Brick.

Additionally, the network has more than 180 patient care locations throughout the state which include ambulatory care centers, surgery centers, home health services, long-term care and assisted living communities, ambulance services, lifesaving air medical transportation, fitness and wellness centers, rehabilitation centers, and urgent care and after-hours centers. Hackensack Meridian Health has 33,000 team members, and 6,500 physicians and is a distinguished leader in health care philanthropy, committed to the health and well-being of the communities it serves.

The Network's notable distinctions include having one of only five major academic medical centers in the nation to receive Healthgrades America's 50 Best Hospitals Award for five or more consecutive years, four hospitals among the top 10 in New Jersey, including Hackensack University Medical Center which is ranked No. 1 by U.S. News and World Report. Other honors include consistently achieving Magnet® recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, recipient of the John M. Eisenberg Award for Patient Safety and Quality from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum, a six-time recipient of Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For," one of the "20 Best Workplaces in Health Care" in the nation, and the number one "Best Place to Work for Women." Hackensack Meridian Health is a member of AllSpire Health Partners, an interstate consortium of leading health systems, to focus on the sharing of best practices in clinical care and achieving efficiencies.

For additional information, please visit www.HackensackMeridianHealth.org.