SPECIALTY HOSPITAL AT KIMBALL WELCOMES NEW CLINICAL DIRECTOR
WITH EXPERTISE IN SPECIALIZED NURSING CARE

LAKEWOOD, NJ, August 4, 2006 — Specialty Hospital at Kimball’s new clinical director is Diane Stanaway, M.S.N., R.N., of Jackson, who has built a 20-year career in nursing management.

In her new leadership role at the Lakewood-based long term acute care hospital (LTACH), she is responsible for all nursing and respiratory services in the treatment of patients with medically complex conditions requiring an extended hospital stay.

The appointment was announced by AcuteCare Health System (ACHS), the region’s leading independent provider of long term acute care, operating two “hospital-within-a-hospital facilities” in Ocean and Monmouth counties: Specialty Hospital at Kimball, located within Kimball Medical Center, and Specialty Hospital at Monmouth, located within Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. Both 25-bed facilities are state-licensed LTACHs that offer an intensive level of hospital-based care for 25 days or more.

“We are extremely pleased to welcome Diane, a superbly qualified nursing clinician, mentor and administrator, to our clinical team,” says Hilary Michaels, R.N., M.S.N., ACHRN, executive director at Specialty Hospital at Kimball. “She brings a level of expertise and professionalism that will benefit our clinical staff and most importantly, our patients and their families.”

Before joining Specialty Hospital, Stanaway served for six years as clinical director of a medical/surgical unit for hospitalized patients at Monmouth Medical Center. Prior to that, she spent 10 years at Kimball Medical Center as director of patient care for an inpatient unit dedicated to patients with cancer and other serious medical conditions.

In recognizing Stanaway’s wealth of experience in specialized areas of nursing care, ACHS chief executive officer Violeta Peters says, “Diane’s arrival solidifies Specialty Hospitals’ leadership position in the delivery of care for our patients — many of whom require treatment for one or more serious conditions, including cardiovascular or cardiopulmonary disease, cancer, stroke, respiratory or kidney disorders, as well as complex health problems that require advanced wound care.”

“She understands the importance of offering patients an individualized hospital setting, combined with such life-support services as ventilator weaning, complex wound care, parenteral nutrition, respiratory and cardiac monitoring, and dialysis,” Peters adds.
After receiving her nursing diploma from Saint Vincent’s Medical Center, Staten Island, N.Y., Stanaway earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing and subsequently her master’s degree in health care administration from Jersey City State College. She continued her academic endeavors at Wagner College in Staten Island, where she attained her master’s degree in nursing administration.

Nationally certified by the American Nurses Association in nursing administration and by the Oncology Nursing Society, Stanaway recently received Monmouth Medical Center’s 2006 Nursing Excellence in Collaborative Practice Award, which recognizes a nurse who has excelled in heightening collaboration and communication between the hospital’s Emergency Department and other departments. She also is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau/Lambda Delta nursing honor society, Oncology Nurses Association, Organization of Nurse Executives and Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses.

Stanaway’s appointment represents the latest in a succession of personnel announcements at both Specialty Hospitals and allows for the transition of LeeAnn Harmon, R.N., CLNC, who had served as clinical director of Specialty Hospital at Kimball, to become external case manager for both Specialty Hospitals. In this newly created position, she collaborates with professionals at other health care facilities to identify patients who would benefit from admission to a Specialty Hospital.

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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.

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