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HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH'S

2016

DOCTORS' NOTES

A PARTNERSHIP

(RE) WRITING THE FUTURE

Hackensack Meridian Health is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that will optimize clinical cancer care delivery, and enhance research and discovery in New Jersey and beyond -- bringing us one step closer to finding a cure. Simply put, we will rewrite the way cancer care will be provided in the future, building hope in our communities unlike ever before.

This is a time of unprecedented change in cancer medicine. The Memorial Sloan Kettering?Hackensack Meridian Health partnership brings together two world-renowned organizations that share a single goal: finding more cures for cancer faster, while ensuring that everyone has access to the highest-quality cancer care when and where they need it, both today and in the future. This partnership is bigger than New Jersey. The standard of care that we develop together will be implemented at all Hackensack Meridian Health and Memorial Sloan Kettering sites alike, but the sheer size and scope of what we do will impact cancer care everywhere.

Driving the collaboration is a shared commitment to the highest-quality cancer care and improving outcomes and value, which will allow the two organizations to reduce the burden that cancer places on patients and families. The partnership also supports Vice President Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative, which called for unprecedented cooperation among leading cancer centers to make more therapies available to more patients, while also improving the ability to prevent cancer and detect it at an early stage.

Each organization's existing sites of care ? including Hackensack Meridian Health's cancer care locations, the John Theurer Cancer Center at HackensackUMC in Hackensack and Memorial Sloan Kettering's locations in Basking Ridge, Middletown, and Montvale (opening in 2018) ? will be part of the Memorial Sloan Kettering ? Hackensack Meridian Health partnership, but independently owned and managed. The initial stages of the Memorial Sloan Kettering ? Hackensack Meridian Health partnership will involve developing joint standards of care at these existing sites to optimize clinical outcomes for every patient, as well as setting clinical research priorities. Eventually, the two organizations will create a formal joint venture to own and operate new ambulatory care centers in areas of New Jersey they do not yet serve.

Physicians employed by Memorial Sloan Kettering and Hackensack Meridian Health -- including the Hackensack Division of Regional Cancer Care Associates and physicians who participate in Hackensack Meridian Health's clinically-integrated network -- will continue to care for patients at their respective sites.

The partnership will be overseen by an Operating Board made up of representatives from each organization. That board will function with the advice of a formal clinical council, led by internationally-recognized cancer subtype experts from Memorial Sloan Kettering and Hackensack Meridian Health, as well as a formal executive advisory group comprised of institutional leaders in key areas.

This is a groundbreaking partnership. Our combined and unparalleled clinical experience, along with our focus on big data platforms, next-generation analytics and precision medicine, will lead to the best possible outcomes for our patients. Together, we will develop and implement standardized care management and research protocols for all cancer patients receiving care at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Hackensack Meridian Health sites.

Today, Memorial Sloan Kettering and Hackensack Meridian Health treat one in five New Jersey residents who are diagnosed with cancer. Combined, we will annually serve the most patients with cancer in the region and many of our programs are among the largest and most respected in the country. There is no doubt that harnessing our organizations' expertise in precision medicine, immunotherapy, cell-based therapies, genetic sequencing and testing, and next-generation analytics will lead to the best possible outcomes.

For more information, please visit About/News.

POLST: Balancing Liability and Life Wishes

Satisfy Your NJ State Board of Medical Education 2-Credit CME Requirement for NJ License Renewal

Are you a Legacy Meridian Health physician looking for ways to satisfy the New Jersey State Board of Medical Education (SBME) 2 Credit CME requirement for NJ license renewal? POLST: Balancing Liability and Life Wishes is designed to assist physicians and other health care professionals to better serve our patients and their families in managing end of life care. Please join us on one of the following dates for interactive presentations on Practitioner Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST), advance directives, and end of life decision-making:

Monday, March 13, 2017 5:30 p.m. ? 7:30 p.m. Bayshore Community Hospital Conference Rooms A/B

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 5:30 p.m. ? 7:30 p.m. Southern Ocean Medical Center Conference Rooms 1 and 2

Monday, April 3, 2017 5:30 p.m. ? 7:30 p.m. Riverview Medical Center Rechnitz Conference Room

Wednesday, April 19, 2017 5:30 p.m. ? 7:30 p.m. Raritan Bay Medical Center ? Perth Amboy, Centennial Hall A & B

Thursday, April 20, 2017 7:30 a.m. ? 9:30 a.m. Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Lance Auditorium

Monday, April 24, 2017 5:30 p.m. ? 7:30 p.m. Ocean Medical Center Conference Room A

Legacy Meridian Health physicians from all sub-specialties, nurses from all specialties, social workers, pastoral care, nursing home administrators, residents, fellows, and medical students are invited to attend. To register online, go to CME and select the date that you'd like to attend.

For more information, please contact Mary Nicholas at mary.nicholas@.

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit.TM

HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH'S DOCTORS' NOTES

2016

JFK Health and Hackensack Meridian Health Sign Letter of Intent to Explore an Affiliation

A message from John K. Lloyd, FACHE, and Robert C. Garrett, FACHE, co-CEOs of Hackensack Meridian Health:

We are pleased to announce JFK Health and Hackensack Meridian Health have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to explore an affiliation. This announcement comes after an extensive process that considered multiple factors that would strengthen JFK Health and further its mission to keep the community healthy.

JFK Health has been in discussions with several New Jersey-based health care systems who responded to its Request For Information. The emphasis was to explore how an affiliation with each system would strengthen JFK Health and position them for continued success in a rapidly changing health care environment that stresses the efficient delivery of care. JFK looked closely at how an affiliation with each system would align with its clinical services, increase access for patients and their families, and further support population health initiatives.

JFK Health and Hackensack Meridian Health share a culture and vision for the future of health care that reinforces JFK Health's role as a trusted provider. Together, we will offer residents and physicians more choices for accessing both primary and secondary care as well as tertiary services.

In a rapidly changing health care environment, through an affiliation with a successful and quality focused system, JFK Health can strategically make investments in new programs, services and technology to keep pace with the advanced health needs of our communities.

The proposed affiliation complements JFK's successful history of working together with Hackensack Meridian Health. Our organizations' common values of putting patients first and focusing on community needs will be enhanced through additional care coordination and clinical program development.

With a signed LOI, both parties will enter a due diligence period wherein each party will evaluate the structure, operations and finances of one another. We anticipate that a definitive agreement for the proposed transaction will be signed sometime early in the New Year. We will keep you informed as this process progresses.

Hackensack Meridian Health has a lot to be proud of ? and it starts with each and every one of you. Thank you for your continued commitment and dedication to our patients and their loved ones. Our compassionate and high quality care resonates throughout New Jersey and beyond.

We are changing the state of health care.

Online Physician Reviews and Ratings Launch

New Opportunity for Legacy Meridian Health Affiliated Physicians Coming Soon!

In our continued commitment to high reliability and transparency, Hackensack Meridian Health began working with National Research Corporation to convert our Meridian Medical Group (MMG) and other contracted physician groups' Press Ganey data for the nine CG-CAHPS patient experience questions into 5-star ratings. We are proud to announce that you boast an average rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars. Recently, we began publicly sharing these great ratings and reviews incorporating them into the profile pages in our online physician directory. These physicians are among the nation's few and the first physician group in New Jersey to provide 5-star ratings and reviews online.

In an effort to make this opportunity available to all of our Legacy Meridian Health affiliated physicians, NRC has agreed to extend our bulk pricing to our affiliated physicians on a subscription basis. NRC will survey your patients using a short, physician-focused questionnaire delivered via email or text. The question results will be converted to star ratings, the comments will be reviewed for unpublishable content, and then both pieces will be published on Hackensack Meridian's provider directory. Open enrollment is is now open until March 31, 2017. Earning the trust of today's internet consumers is paramount to providing an exceptional patient experience. Leading ratings and reviews sites, such as RateMDs and Yelp, already allow for physician reviews, but these reviews are unverified, use inconsistent methodology, and have variant standard criteria. Bringing accurate, responsible patient ratings data to the internet not only helps patients in their provider searches, but gives you a platform for marketing the great care you provide every day. We hope you find this program advantageous.

Affiliated physicians will be receiving information soon on upcoming webinars and meetings to learn more about how to participate in this great opportunity. Should you have additional questions, feel free to contact Lynette Davis, Marketing director, at lynette.davis@ or 848-888-4526.

The Epic Team is Progressing Through Its Adoption Phase

The Epic team is now fully engulfed in its Adoption phase of the implementation project. Throughout Adoption, groups of IT and operational team members ? including physicians ? are meeting to view workflow demonstrations and ideally reaching final decisions on how those workflows look and function. The goal is to ensure the system being put into place is the best one possible for the entire Network. Once these necessary decisions are made, the IT team can work to finish its build process.

The tasks being accomplished throughout Adoption all help feed into the broader project timelines. There are two timelines the team is working against ? one for ambulatory and another for acute. For ambulatory, the team has recently established a new project timeline for its ambulatory facilities. The "Big Bang" go-live will call for ambulatory locations to go live with Epic on November 4, 2017. On the Acute timeline, Raritan Bay will go live with Epic in early April of 2018. All remaining Legacy Meridian hospitals will then go live in early October of 2018.

Geisinger Health Plan and Hackensack Meridian Health End Collaboration

Geisinger Health Plan and Hackensack Meridian Health have ended their four-year collaboration and will not be offering Geisinger Gold in New Jersey for 2017. Even though this partnership is ending, Hackensack Meridian Health will remain in Geisinger Health Plan's network of participating hospitals and providers in Monmouth and Ocean counties.

We appreciate our physician's support of this plan over the past four years and realize this will directly impact many of our physicians in Monmouth and Ocean counties and their Geisinger Gold patients. Please visit the Meridian Health Physician Extranet to view frequently asked questions.

HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH'S DOCTORS' NOTES

2016

Welcome Our Network Director of Care Coordination

Please welcome Cinthia Neumany as the new network director of Care Coordination in the Population Health Division of Hackensack Meridian Health. The network director of Care Coordination position has been established to improve the coordination of patient care across the continuum and throughout the Hackensack Meridian Health network.

As the leader responsible for implementation of the care management redesign initiative, Cinthia will oversee care management across the network and help implement the network's new care management model. She will also be responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and monitoring programs and initiatives related to the integrated care management program. As a Registered Professional Nurse, Cinthia brings over 25 years of clinical experience to this new position. Most recently, Cinthia has served as administrator of Capacity and Case Management at Hackensack University Medical Center; in her new role, she will retain responsibility for the Case Management program at HackensackUMC.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Hackensack Meridian Health Expand Network Agreement and Increase OMNIA Tier 1 Options

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) and Hackensack Meridian Health announced that effective January 1, 2017, Raritan Bay Medical Center and HackensackUMC Palisades are now both Tier 1 hospitals for OMNIA health plan members. As a result, every Hackensack Meridian Health hospital is now an OMNIA Tier 1 hospital. Raritan Bay Medical Center is currently in Horizon's network, but has been participating in OMNIA Health Plans as a Tier 2 hospital. HackensackUMC Palisades is both joining Horizon's network and becoming an OMNIA Tier 1 hospital. OMNIA Health Plan premiums are 15 to 20 percent lower than Horizon's broad network plans and OMNIA members who receive care from Tier 1 providers or at Tier 1 hospitals save more through lower out-of-pocket costs.

CONGRATULATIONS to Our Top Docs!

At Hackensack Meridian Health, our calling is "excellence unsurpassed." With more than 6,000 physicians heartwiring care, education, research and innovation, we are setting the standard. We're proud to recognize our top doctors for their dedication and achievement each and every day. Inside Jersey magazine named more than 280 Hackensack Meridian Health physicians to its 2016 "Top Doctors" list. Partnering with Castle Connolly Medical, Inside Jersey's Top Doctor list provides consumers with an independent assessment of physicians who represent the very best in their specialties and in their communities. The selection process is conducted by Castle Connolly's physician-led research team, and begins with surveying physicians and other health care professionals to nominate their peers for consideration as top doctors. The Top Doctors list includes physicians in every specialty and is updated annually.

Additionally, New Jersey Monthly has selected more than 340 physicians affiliated with Hackensack Meridian Health to be among its 2016 Jersey Choice Top Doctors. For this year's list of Top Doctors, New Jersey Monthly commissioned an independent survey by Leflein Associates. New Jersey-based doctors were invited to give recommendations of the physicians they would choose to treat their own family members. Congratulations!

For more information, or to see a complete list of Top Doctors, visit About/TopDoctors.

COMING SOON: U.S. News & World Report Best Hospital Physician Survey

This month, U.S. News & World Report will This month, U.S. News & World Report will release its annual survey to physicians board certified in one of the 16 ranked specialties, and the results of those surveys will be factored into the 2017-18 "Best Hospitals" national rankings. To capture those physician surveys, U.S. News partners with Doximity ? the largest online community of physicians in the country.

Keep a look out for the survey request from Doximity in your inbox, which is expected to be emailed to eligible physicians in the coming weeks. To be eligible to vote, you must have registered with Doximity as of early December and be board certified in one of the 16 ranked specialties. If you are a member of Doximity, you can also access the survey once it's live by logging into your account at SignIn. However, if you are board certified in one of these specialties but are not a member of Doximity, you still may be randomly selected to complete the survey as well ? so it's important to watch for the survey via email and mail. Have your opinion count and cast your vote for Best Hospitals.

Training Available for Meridian ACO Providers

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to provide information and education on its ACO compliance program to participants. For providers participating in the Meridian MSSP ACO, please click on Important: Compliance Training for Meridian ACO Providers under What's New on the Meridian Health Physician Extranet. The link will bring you to a brief, but comprehensive, compliance presentation. The compliance program takes approximately 20 minutes to complete and ensures that you are informed of the regulatory requirements and possible risks related to being a member of Meridian's MSSP ACO. A separate training for privacy and data security regulations will be offered soon by Hackensack Meridian Health Network Privacy Officer Cindy Coronel. If you have any questions about this training, please contact Peter Hughes, Meridian MSSP ACO Compliance Officer, at peter.hughes@ or 732-751-3313.

Cancer Care Projects Hitting Major Milestones

It was a busy year with multiple milestones being achieved in the Building Hope cancer expansion projects! In September, Jersey Shore University Medical Center held a topping of the steel event to mark the placement of the last steel beam at the top of the new HOPE Tower. Soon the walls will begin to take shape and elevate the project to a new level. The new parking garage will open soon, boasting 1,583 new parking spots for team members, residents, and students.

September also marked the official opening of Southern Ocean Medical Center's new cancer care center. Team members, physicians and community members took tremendous pride during the grand opening and tours, and were in awe of the beautiful new setting where compassionate and expert cancer care is delivered. The final piece of the project is to replace the linear accelerator with TrueBeam technology. This took place in December, and will be up and running for radiation treatments by April 2017. Patients from the Manahawkin area will temporarily receive their radiation treatment at Ocean Medical Center during the installation of the new equipment.

Riverview Medical Center opened its new cancer care center in October. Construction for the 29,000-square-foot expansion project began in July 2015 and includes a combination of advanced technological capabilities, a multidisciplinary cancer program, physician offices, and enhanced infusion services in a tranquil and uplifting environment, all designed with the patients' needs in mind. Included in the project are two TrueBeamTM linear accelerators, the most advanced technology available in the state of New Jersey, 20 infusion bays, physician practices, private inpatient rooms, and a multidisciplinary approach to care.

Ocean Medical Center is now treating patients in its new cancer care center. The new TrueBeam linear accelerator, multidisciplinary care space and infusion center are now housed together in a peaceful setting for patients and their families. Final components of the project include renovations to the old infusion space and creating a new main entrance to the cancer center. These final components should be completed by early 2017.

HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH'S DOCTORS' NOTES

2016

Biorepository Program Receives $1.9 Million Grant

Congratulations to Mark Krasna, M.D., medical director of Meridian Cancer Care, part of the Hackensack Meridian Health family, who received a $1.9 million grant from the National Cancer Institute and Leidos Biomedical Research. The funding will support his work with The Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC), sponsored by the Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research (OCCPR) and The Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR), which is dedicated to the understanding of cancer biology. Samples will be collected to conduct proteogenomic analyses on certain cancer types. The purpose of this integrative approach is to provide the broad scientific community with knowledge that links genotype to proteotype and, ultimately, phenotype.

CONGRATULATIONS to Our 2016 Best Hospital IT Department

Hackensack Meridian Health has been recognized as having a `Best Hospital IT Department' in the category of Super Hospital by Healthcare IT News for engaging patients before they arrive and staying with them through their health care journey. One of the most innovative creations we have been recognized for is a mobile app, available at Hackensack University Medical Center, which allows patients to self-register and provides them with directions to their place of care.

In addition to our innovations, Hackensack Meridian Health has been recognized for its Epic implementation across the network, which will improve patient care and the patient experience, and the organization's future goals. Hackensack Meridian Health sits atop Healthcare IT News' Best Hospital IT Departments for the fourth straight year.

Hospitals Honored as National Research Corporation Consumer Choice Hospitals

Hackensack Meridian Health is pleased to announce that Hackensack University Medical Center and Jersey Shore University Medical Center have been recognized as National Research Corporation (NRC) 2016-2017 Consumer Choice Award winners. This marked the 21st consecutive win for HackensackUMC in the Bergen-Passaic market -- every year since the award's inception. HackensackUMC is the only hospital in Bergen County to make the list, and was also named a co-winner in the Jersey City market for the sixth consecutive year. Jersey Shore University Medical Center is the only hospital in the Monmouth-Ocean market, and has received the award nine times. A complete list of winners can be found at ConsumerChoice.

Hackensack Meridian Health RediClinics Open

Hackensack Meridian Health and RediClinic, a leading operator of retail clinics, have partnered to open convenient care clinics inside select Rite Aid pharmacies in Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties in New Jersey. Clinics in Highland Park, Red Bank, and Marlboro are now open. Seven additional locations will open this month in Belford, Little Egg Harbor, Neptune, Old Bridge, Spring Lake, Toms River, and Whitesville.

The conditions and minor illnesses treated at these locations include: allergies, bronchitis, colds and flus, health screenings,

sinusitis, physicals, immunizations, flu shots, and more! The clinics are open Monday ? Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., and

Saturday and Sunday from 8:00 a.m. ? 5:00 p.m., 365 days

a year. Walk-in patients are welcome or you can schedule

an appointment online. Most insurance plans are accepted.

Visit RediClinic for more information.

Located inside

near the pharmacy

OCEAN NEWS

Welcome New Medical Staff Members

SMuhammad A. Abbas, M.D., Addiction Psychiatry Huma Baqui, M.D., Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology Eric Beights, DPM, Podiatric Surgery ? Rear Foot and Ankle Surgery

Hasan K. Memon, M.D., Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Moses F. Olorunnisola, M.D., Pediatric Emergency Medicine Shruti D. Patel, M.D., Internal Medicine

Richard A. Callahan, M.D., Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Robert V. Cerniglia, PA-C, Surgery Stacy Doumas, M.D., Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Harjot S. Dulai, M.D., Diagnostic Radiology, Neuroradiology Albert B. Empedrad, M.D., Endocrinology Donna J. Garibaldi, CRNA, Nurse Anesthetist

Paulina M. Sedutto, M.D., Obstetrics/Gynecology Ami N. Sethi, M.D., Diagnostic Radiology, Neuroradiology Hemangini R. Shah, D.O., Radiation Oncology Samir N. Shah, M.D., Anesthesiology David J. Sikowitz, M.D., Addiction Psychiatry John P. Swidryk, Jr., M.D., Diagnostic Radiology, Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Kevin T. Gioia, M.D., Urology, Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery

Alexandra Greenberg, D.O., Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine

Joshua Kellerman, M.D., Diagnostic Radiology

Rahul Vemula, M.D., Plastic Surgery, General Surgery Matthew F. Way, M.D., Psychiatry Fu-Lin Yang, M.D., Internal Medicine Govardhana R. Yannam, M.D., General Surgery

Joseph P. Lattanzi, M.D., Radiation Oncology

Construction Begins for New Third Floor Patient Care Unit

When building the new Emergency Department three years ago, shell space was created on the second and third floors above the ED, with the vision of having the framework in place to anticipate future expansion. Well, it didn't take long for the demand to catch up and approvals secured to build out the third floor shell into a new inpatient care unit. Construction began in early October, and will take about 10 months to complete.

In the coming months, construction will take place outdoors, as equipment is run in the overhang ceilings on the pedestrian and ambulance sides of the ED. Work will also take place in the ceiling of the new ED lobby. Physicians and team members should be particularly aware of traffic flow around the campus. Only ambulances and delivery trucks will be permitted on the south side of the campus (where the ED ambulance entrance is located). All other vehicles should use the parking garage side to navigate the campus.

Once the project is complete in September 2017, a 36-bed, private-room inpatient unit will be available for elective procedure patients. This will truly be one of the most innovative, patient-centric patient units in the region.

Robotic Surgery Program Reaches 500th Case Milestone

Surgeons at Ocean Medical Center marked the milestone of performing more than 500 cases with the da Vinci Robotic Surgery System. Reaching this tremendous accomplishment demonstrates the team's determination to deliver superior patient care and a level of expertise not available through all robotic programs in NJ. Specialists in urologic, gynecologic, colorectal, general and thoracic surgery perform minimally invasive robotic procedures at Ocean Medical Center.

Looking for the Latest News?

The Meridian Physician Extranet is your resource for the latest physician news and events across legacy Meridian Health. If you have any news you would like to share with other physicians, please contact Michael McCauley, vice president of Communications, at michael.mccauley@.

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