NEW ADVANCEMENTS
1978
DEMOLISH AND REBUILD
Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck
with the 125,000-square-foot
addition
The late-’70s renovation demolished the center portion of the original hospital and
added a new main building, emergency room, radiology department and nursery. By
1978, the hospital boasted about 28,000 emergency room visits and 23,500 dialysis
treatments a year. The latter made it one of the nation’s largest dialysis centers.
Another wave of modernization came in 1991, when the hospital finished the first
part of a $56 million renovation, a $1.8 million, 8,800-square foot Center for
Rehabilitation. Its construction was followed by a 125,000-square-foot addition, which
joined all the buildings on campus by 1993. Five years later, the regional cancer center
opened. There have been additions made to the center since then in the form of new
emergency care, fitness and renal care centers.
2010
RENAMED
Renamed in 2010,
today Holy Name
Medical Center has
361 beds and sees more
than 27,000 annual
admissions.
TREATING MS Dr. Mary Ann Picone is the medical
director of Holy Name Medical Center’s MS Center.
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
CENTER OFFERS
NEW BENEFITS
The physicians and staff at The Alfiero and
Lucia Palestroni Foundation Multiple Sclerosis
Center at Holy Name Medical Center have a
dedicated infusion nurse working in a new
infusion suite available solely to MS patients.
Patients now have access to therapies such as
Ocrevus, Lemtrada and Tysabri, says Dr. Mary Ann
Picone, medical director of the MS Center. She
says that she and her staff are also making it
easier for patients to see other specialists for
symptoms triggered by the disease; including a
cardiologist/internist, a urologist and a pain
specialist. “With new disease-modifying therapies,
symptom management strategies, exercise and
diet, we hope to continue to make strides in
improving quality of life and slowing disease
progression,” says Dr. Picone.
— CINDY SCHWEICH HANDLER
The front entrance at Holy
Name Hospital as seen in
2006.
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