LONG BRANCH RESIDENT JOINS SPECIALTY HOSPITALS AT MONMOUTH AND KIMBALL AS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
LONG BRANCH RESIDENT JOINS SPECIALTY HOSPITALS
AT MONMOUTH AND KIMBALL AS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
LONG BRANCH, NJ, November 3, 2005 — Lucille Famulary has been named director of business development for AcuteCare Health System (ACHS) Specialty Hospitals, the region’s leading independent provider of hospital-based, long term acute care services.
In the newly created role, Famulary will be responsible for establishing new partnerships with physicians and other health care providers, and collaborating with other members of the ACHS management team, clinical staff and board of directors in developing long-range business strategies and identifying new opportunities for growth.
Lakewood-based AcuteCare Health System operates two “hospital-within-a-hospital” facilities in Monmouth and Ocean Counties — Specialty Hospital at Monmouth, located within Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, and Specialty Hospital at Kimball, located within Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood. Both 25-bed facilities are state-licensed long term acute care hospitals (LTACHs), which provide an intensive level of care to patients with complex medical conditions that require an extended period of treatment.
Famulary, a Long Branch resident, joins Specialty Hospitals at Monmouth and Kimball from Monmouth Medical Center, where she was manager of the Department of Patient Satisfaction for two years. While in that position, she played an instrumental role in Monmouth’s recent selection as one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers for patient satisfaction by Press Ganey, an independent provider of satisfaction measurement and improvement services for the health care industry. In a national survey of 125 teaching hospitals, Monmouth also was among a distinguished group of four hospitals in the United States identified by Press Ganey as “top performers” for its patient satisfaction efforts with physicians.
“We are extremely pleased to welcome such a talented professional as Lucille to our management team. Her managerial and communication skills are unsurpassed in the health care field, ” says Violeta Peters, chief executive officer of Specialty Hospital at Monmouth and Specialty Hospital at Kimball. “She brings a wealth of experience in building strong physician relationships and enhancing patient satisfaction efforts. “These impressive assets will certainly benefit Specialty Hospital at Monmouth and Kimball as we move forward in our mission to offer patients the care they need, at the level they need, for as long as they need it,” Peters adds.
After attending Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, where she majored in behavioral science, Famulary joined Monmouth Medical Center and served as volunteer services coordinator for three years. In broadening her health care career, she accepted a position at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold, where she spearheaded the creation of its patient advocacy program, gaining national media attention for her groundbreaking efforts in patient and physician satisfaction. Famulary then return to Monmouth Medical Center as community relations coordinator in the Emergency Department, serving as liaison with Monmouth-Ocean Hospital Service Corp. (MONOC), the Neptune-based emergency medical services provider, and first aid squads throughout Monmouth County. In 1995, Famulary left Monmouth Medical Center to join Rand Thompson Consultants, New York City, where she served as vice president of executive recruitment for investment banking. She held that position for seven years before assuming her most-recent previous post as manager of the Patient Satisfaction Department at Monmouth Medical Center, an affiliate of the Livingston-based Saint Barnabas Health Care System.
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AcuteCare Health System, LLC, is a privately owned corporation formed in 2002 to establish and manage long term acute care hospitals (LTACHs). An LTACH (pronounced L-tack) provides diagnostic and medical treatment and rehabilitation to patients whose conditions are medically complex and require an average length-of-stay of 25 days or more.
Although ACHS’s Specialty Hospital at Monmouth and Specialty Hospital at Kimball are located within major medical centers, they are independent entities that offer the benefits of a smaller, more individualized hospital setting, combined with such life-support services as ventilator weaning, complex wound care, parenteral nutrition, respiratory and cardiac monitoring, and dialysis.
Patients typically are referred to Specialty
Hospital at Monmouth and Specialty Hospital at Kimball — through physician,
nurse, case manager or social worker referral — from an intensive care unit.
For more information about Specialty Hospital at Monmouth, call 732-923-5037,
and Specialty Hospital at Kimball, call 732-942-3597. Visit its Web site at
www.acutecarehs.com.