Monmouth Medical Center Names Eric Carney Chief Operating Officer

Monmouth Medical Center recently announced the addition of Eric Carney to the facility’s leadership team as Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this position, Carney will be responsible for the oversight of all the clinical and non-clinical departments at Monmouth Medical Center.

He previously served as vice president of operations at Saint Barnabas Medical Center and site administrator for the Barnabas Health Ambulatory Care Center. In this role, he led efforts to develop an ambulatory network by acquiring and transitioning freestanding cardiac imaging sites, sleep laboratories and an infusion center to Saint Barnabas Medical Center, as well as establish an outpatient laboratory network. He also served as project lead for the Cyberknife vault project and was service line leader for Oncology and Neurosciences.

Carney began his career at Barnabas Health more than 20 years ago as a respiratory therapist. In 1997, he was promoted to administrative director of respiratory care at Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville. Since then, he has served in numerous positions of increasing responsibility across the health system, including administrative director of clinical operations and assistant vice president of clinical operations at Union Hospital and assistant vice president of ambulatory services at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in management science from Kean University and is working on a master’s of Healthcare Administration through Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

He is a resident of Howell.

About Monmouth Medical Center
Located in Long Branch, N.J., Monmouth Medical Center, a Barnabas Health facility, along with The Unterberg Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center, is one of New Jersey's largest academic medical centers and has been a teaching affiliate of Philadelphia’s Drexel University College of Medicine for more than 40 years. From its earliest days, Monmouth Medical Center has been a leader in surgical advancement and has introduced many technological firsts to the region, including robotic surgery and other minimally invasive techniques. U.S. News & World Report has recognized Monmouth as a regional leader in cancer, geriatrics, gynecology, neurology and neurosurgery. Monmouth Medical Center is the only hospital in Monmouth and Ocean counties to receive an “A” Hospital Safety Score by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit organization of employer purchasers of health care and the nation’s leading experts on patient safety.