Hackensack Meridian Health Honored by the Association for Corporate Growth NJ with The 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award

Hackensack Meridian Health is pleased to announce the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) NJ will recognize the health network with The 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award at the ACG NJ Corporate Growth Conference and Awards this spring.

“I look forward to accepting the award on behalf of our entire team,” said Robert C. Garrett, CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health. “Working together, we are dedicated to a shared purpose to transform health care and serve as a leader of positive change.”

Mr. Garrett will be joined at the podium by representatives from four other NJ-based companies being honored as well as program emcee, Tom Bergeron, editor & chief content officer of ROI-NJ.  Leaders of these organizations will share their insights on how they encourage innovation, sustain excellence, and grow their companies.

According to the ACG NJ, Hackensack Meridian Health was selected for its innovative strategies, nurturing a culture that encourages continuous excellence, and demonstrating sustained growth as a result of these efforts.

Under Mr. Garrett’s visionary leadership, Hackensack Meridian Health opened a medical school last year with its partner Seton Hall University, merged with the Carrier Clinic in January to transform behavioral health care, and has a historic partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that will result in the opening of a new joint venture outpatient facility in New Jersey.

All 25 members of the ACG NJ board were involved in determining the honorees who best reflect this criteria and the final decisions were made by a selection committee comprised of board members.

“Hackensack Meridian Health is recognized for its rigorous commitment to innovation, excellence, and corporate growth,” noted Sally Glick, president of ACG NJ and principal at SobelCo.

The event will take place May 2, 2019 from 7:30 a.m. until 12 p.m. at The Palace at Somerset Park, Somerset, NJ.

“We are expecting a record crowd,” observed MJ Jolda, event chair of ACG NJ’s Corporate Growth Conference & Awards and principal of CMO + Co. “Every astute C-Suite executive, business owner, service provider and others focused on corporate growth and the M+A community in New Jersey and beyond are going to want to hear how these leaders achieved such a high level of success in their corporations. Given that we will also be recognizing middle market companies with annual revenues between $5 million and $500 million, there will be something for everyone in the room to immediately adapt to their own situations and company culture.”

For more information about The 2019 Association for Corporate Growth NJ Corporate Growth Conference and Awards event, or to reserve your seat or purchase a table, please visit the website at: www.acg.org/newjersey. For more information on the event, visit: https://www.acg.org/newjersey/events/acg-nj-2019-corporate-growth-conference-awards

About ACG NJ

Founded in 1954, ACG is a global organization with chapters worldwide and over 14,500 members representing Fortune 500, Fortune 1000, FTSE 100, and mid- market companies.  Chapters in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia bring dealmakers together to help them achieve their business and professional goals.

ACG New Jersey is a key part of ACG Global.  Here at home, we are the leading forum for bringing together business leaders to promote corporate growth.  We proudly boast an array of members from small entrepreneurial companies to large influential corporations, who all attend our meetings for the relevant topics and high profile speakers as well as to enjoy peer-to-peer networking and the chance to interact with private equity professionals, investment bankers and intermediaries, attorneys, auditors and accountants, lenders, corporate development officers and others focused on the middle market. They recognize the multiple benefits of networking within an influential community of executives growing public and private companies worldwide.   For over 50 years, ACG members have focused on strategic activities that increase revenues, profits and, ultimately, stakeholder value. ACG brings together every segment of the growth community.

ABOUT HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH

Hackensack Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization that is the largest, 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 17 hospitals from Bergen to Ocean counties, which include 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; nine community hospitals – Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair, Ocean Medical Center in Brick, Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood, Raritan Bay Medical Center in Old Bridge, Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy, Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, and Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin; a behavioral health hospital – Carrier Clinic in Belle Mead; and two rehabilitation hospitals - JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in Edison and Shore Rehabilitation Institute in Brick.

Additionally, the network has more than 500 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, urgent care centers and physician practice locations. Hackensack Meridian Health has more than 34,100 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 four hospitals among the top 10 in New Jersey by U.S. News and World Report. Other honors include consistently achieving Magnet® recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and being named to Becker’s Healthcare’s “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare/2018” list.

The Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University, the first private medical school in New Jersey in more than 50 years, welcomed its first class of students in 2018 to its On3 campus in Nutley and Clifton. Additionally, the network partnered with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to find more cures for cancer faster while ensuring that patients have access to the highest quality, most individualized cancer care when and where they need it.

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.