FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Violeta Peters
Chief Executive Officer of Specialty Hospitals
732-923-5037
OCEAN TOWNSHIP RESIDENT HEADS UP HUMAN RELATIONS
AT SPECIALTY HOSPITALS AT MONMOUTH AND KIMBALL
LAKEWOOD, NJ, April 6, 2006 — MaryPat Napolitano of Ocean Township has
been named director of human resources for AcuteCare Health System (ACHS)
Specialty Hospitals, the region’s leading independent provider of
hospital-based, long-term acute care services.
In her current role, she is responsible for the management of employee relations, salary compensation, hiring and retention strategies, and the physician credentialing process for both Specialty Hospital at Monmouth and Specialty Hospital at Kimball — “hospital-within-a-hospital” facilities in Monmouth and Ocean Counties operated by Lakewood-based ACHS.
Specialty Hospital at Monmouth is located within Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, and Specialty Hospital at Kimball is 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.
“MaryPat’s expertise in human resources management is a reflection of her numerous years of organizational management in the retail industry and her extensive experience in public education, local government and community service,” says Violeta Peters, chief executive officer of Specialty Hospital at Monmouth and Specialty Hospital at Kimball. “The breadth and scope of her business and civic background is a tremendous asset to our growing teams at both Specialty Hospitals.”
Napolitano served for nearly two years as an administrative assistant/payroll specialist responsible for a host of personnel-related functions, before being elevated to her newly created position. Prior to joining Specialty Hospitals, she was chief testing administrator/employment and training program coordinator for the Asbury Park Adult Learning Center for 15 years and spent the previous 11 years as a divisional sales manager for Alexander’s Department Store, Eatontown.
Additionally, she has held elected office on the Ocean Township Council and Board of Education. An active member of the community, she currently serves on the Asbury Park’s Fourth of July Parade Committee and the Holy Spirit Church 125th Anniversary Committee.
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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 the Specialty Hospitals 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 .