Community Medical Center is a fully accredited acute care hospital in Toms River, New Jersey, serving the entire northern Ocean County area. The hospital is Ocean County's largest and most active healthcare facility. The hospital has been undergoing another expansion since 2004; when completed, the hospital will have the largest emergency department on the East Coast of the United States. History Opened in 1961 as Community Memorial Hospital, it was initially a small facility, with only 50 beds and 15 physicians. The center expanded in the 1980s with a five-level parking garage and a new four-story section of patient rooms. Community Medical Center was the largest non-teaching hospital in New Jersey until July 2021, when the first round of residents were invited to the facilities under the academic medical program partnership with Rutgers University. In 2015 Barnabas Health (parent organization of Community Medical Center) merged with Robert Woods Johnson Health System, making the Medical Center now part of RWJBarnabas Health, the largest academic health system in New Jersey. The hospital has approximately 2,800 associates, 650 physicians on staff, and 1,700 volunteers attending to 28,000 in-patients, 127,700 out-patients, and 100,000 emergency department patients each year. Community Medical Center received its third Accreditation in 2002 from the Joint Commission. Departments and Centers Jay and Linda Grunin Neuroscience Institute In 2013, the Grunin Foundation bestowed CMC with a $3.5 million gift to establish a neuroscience institute at the hospital. The institute is an interdisciplinary group of specialists whose aim is to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases of the brain, spinal cord, and the peripheral nervous system, including: Stroke Seizure Disorders/Epilepsy Dementia/Alzheimer's Disease Movement Disorders/Parkinson's Disease Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) Neuromuscular Disorders Sleep Disorders The institute operates 24 hours a day and is open year-round. Cardiology Due to serving a very high population of geriatric patients, at least 75 years old, CMC treats more patients with cardiac disease than any other hospital in the state without a cardiac surgery program. Services provided include: Non-Invasive Cardiac Lab (NICL) Stress Testing EKG Cardioversion Invasive Diagnostic Service Pacemakers Transesophageal Echocardiogram Cardiac Catheterizations Elective and Emergent Angioplasty J. Phillip Citta Regional Cancer Center The center's focus is cancer prevention, detection and treatment. It has been nationally recognized by the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons with accreditation since 1986. Currently, the Rutgers Cancer Institute provides services at the hospital. Therapies provided at the center include: