Hackensack Meridian Health Names New Regional President

Hackensack Meridian Health, the most comprehensive and truly integrated non-profit health care network in New Jersey, is pleased to announce the appointment of Raymond F. Fredericks as regional president of the network’s Central Market.

This appointment is in conjunction with Hackensack Meridian Health’s new organizational structure to better align its services and improve the overall experience for patients across its 16 hospitals and 500 patient care locations throughout New Jersey. This new structure consists of three markets – North, Central and South - and an integrated clinical transformation service that will help to align all of the network’s services around the patient to ensure better coordination and outcomes.

As Regional President of the Central Market, Mr. Fredericks will lead JFK Medical Center in Edison, Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, Raritan Bay Medical Center in Old Bridge, Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy, and Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank.

With more than 30 years of experience in health care, Mr. Fredericks spent the last 28 of those years providing leadership at JFK Medical Center. He began his career as a CPA, and started at JFK as vice president for Financial Planning in 1986. He made the leap to senior vice president in 1992, executive vice president and chief operating officer in 2003 and president/CEO in 2011. He has been the leading force in JFK Health’s dramatic achievements since that time.

Mr. Fredericks served on a number of health care industry boards, including the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) Board of Trustees, NJHA Healthcare Business Solutions, Inc. Board of Directors, member of the NJHA Medicaid Task Force, NJHA Executive Compensation Committee, and Audit and Compliance Committee and Director of Vizient (formerly the Voluntary Hospitals of America East Coast-UHC Alliance). He also is a member of the Fair Share Hospital Collaborative, a group dedicated to promote and improve the common business interests of suburban and rural New Jersey hospitals and health systems. The collaborative also works to provide accessible and accountable care to the communities they serve in order to promote the health, safety and welfare of the public.

Additionally, Mr. Fredericks serves on the JFK Health Board of Directors, the Atlantic Insurance Exchange, Ltd. and the JFK At Home Board of Directors. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, and formerly served on the Ernst & Young Health Sciences Advisory Services Board.

Fredericks graduated from Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.

About Hackensack Meridian Health
Hackensack Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization that is the largest, most comprehensive and truly integrated health care network in New Jersey, offering a complete range of medical services, innovative research and life-enhancing care.

Hackensack Meridian Health comprises 16 hospitals from Bergen to Ocean counties, which includes three academic medical centers – Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, JFK Medical Center in Edison; two children’s hospitals - Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital in Hackensack, K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital in Neptune; nine community hospitals - Ocean Medical Center in Brick, Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair, Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy, Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin, Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, Raritan Bay Medical Center in Old Bridge, and Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood; and two rehabilitation hospitals - JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in Edison and Shore Rehabilitation Institute in Brick.

Additionally, the network has more than 450 patient care locations throughout the state which include ambulatory care centers, surgery centers, home health services, long-term care and assisted living communities, ambulance services, lifesaving air medical transportation, fitness and wellness centers, rehabilitation centers, urgent care centers and physician practice locations. Hackensack Meridian Health has 33,000 team members, and 6,500 physicians and is a distinguished leader in health care philanthropy, committed to the health and well-being of the communities it serves.

The network’s notable distinctions include having one of only five major academic medical centers in the nation to receive Healthgrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals Award for five or more consecutive years, four hospitals among the top 10 in New Jersey by U.S. News and World Report. Other honors include consistently achieving Magnet® recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, recipient of the John M. Eisenberg Award for Patient Safety and Quality from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum, a six-time recipient of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” one of the “20 Best Workplaces in Health Care” in the nation, and the number one “Best Place to Work for Women.” The network was also named to Becker’s Healthcare’s “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare/2018” list.

Hackensack Meridian Health partnered with Seton Hall University to launch the first private medical school in New Jersey – Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University - in more than 50 years to address a growing shortage of physicians and dramatic changes in health care delivery. Additionally, the network partnered with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer to find more cures for cancer faster while ensuring that patients have access to the highest quality, most individualized cancer care when and where they need it. Hackensack Meridian Health and Carrier Clinic, New Jersey’s oldest and most respected behavioral health provider, signed a definitive agreement to merge.

Hackensack Meridian Health is a member of AllSpire Health Partners, an interstate consortium of leading health systems, to focus on the sharing of best practices in clinical care and achieving efficiencies.

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