Atlantic Health System
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| Formation | May 1, 1996 |
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| Purpose | 501(c)(3) health system |
| Headquarters | Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 40°46′12″N 74°28′57″W / 40.77002°N 74.48252°W |
Region | New Jersey |
| Services | Healthcare |
Key people | Brian A. Gragnolati (President & CEO) Scott Leighty (EVP) |
| Revenue |  US$3.50 billion (2021) |
| Expenses | US$3.21 billion (2021) |
| Staff | 18,000 Employees; 4,800 Affiliated Physicians |
| Website | www |
Atlantic Health System is one of the largest non-profit health care networks in New Jersey. It employs 18,000 people and more than 4,800 affiliated physicians. The system offers more than 400 sites of care,[1] including six hospitals: Chilton Medical Center, Goryeb Children’s Hospital, Hackettstown Medical Center, Morristown Medical Center, Newton Medical Center and Overlook Medical Center.
Atlantic Health System serves more than half of the state of New Jersey, including 11 counties and 4.9 million people. Its medical centers have a combined total of 1,860 licensed beds and 4,796 affiliated physicians that provide a wide array of health care services.[2]
The company has been ranked on the FORTUNE 100 Great Place to Work list 13 years in a row.[1] Atlantic Health System also includes the best hospital in New Jersey, Morristown Medical Center, according to both US News & World Report[3] and Newsweek[4].
The president and chief executive of Atlantic Health System is Brian A. Gragnolati.[5]
History
Atlantic Health System was founded in 1996 through the merger of Morristown Memorial Hospital, Overlook Hospital, Mountainside Hospital, and soon after, the General Hospital Center at Passaic. Over the next quarter century, Atlantic Health System grew to include Morristown Medical Center, Overlook Medical Center and Goryeb Children’s Hospital. It added Newton Medical Center in 2011, Chilton Medical Center in 2014 and Hackettstown Medical Center in 2016, along with the new Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute (2019), new partnership with CentraState Health System (2021),[6] and longstanding alliance with Hunterdon Healthcare (2014).
On October 22, 2020, officials from Atlantic Health System announced that they were acquiring a 51% stake in Freehold based CentraState Healthcare System. As a part of the deal, CentraState will continue to govern themselves while Atlantic Health System has committed to invest $135 million into the hospital.[7][8][9]
Medicare overbilling allegations
On June 21, 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that AHS Hospital Corp., Atlantic Health System Inc., and Overlook Hospital agreed to pay the United States $8,999,999 to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by allegedly overbilling Medicare. The settlement was part of the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) initiative.[10] The settlement resolved allegations that Overlook Hospital, owned and operated by AHS Hospital Corporation, and Atlantic Health Systems Inc., overbilled Medicare for patients who were treated on an inpatient basis when they should have been treated as either observation patients or on an outpatient basis.[10]
References
- ^ a b Work, Great Place to. "Working at Atlantic Health System". Great Place to Work®. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
- ^ "Dun and Bradstreet Business Directory". Archived from the original on August 19, 2021.
- ^ "U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals list". Archived from the original on July 21, 2012.
- ^ "Newsweek lists five New Jersey Hospitals in the best in the US, and two in the world". www.newjerseynewsnetwork.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
- ^ NJ.com, Tim Darragh | NJ Advance Media for (March 13, 2015). "Johns Hopkins executive to take over as CEO at Atlantic Health System". nj. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
- ^ Bergeron, Tom (October 21, 2020). "CentraState to join Atlantic Health System in unique partnership". ROI-NJ. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
- ^ NJ.com, Susan K. Livio | NJ Advance Media for (October 22, 2020). "Central Jersey medical center to join Atlantic Health System, in latest hospital consolidation move". nj. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
- ^ "Central Jersey medical center to join Atlantic Health System, in latest hospital consolidation move". DoctorsVisions. October 22, 2020. Archived from the original on October 24, 2020. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
- ^ "Atlantic Health, CentraState Healthcare expand affiliation". Modern Healthcare. September 14, 2020. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
- ^ a b "New Jersey Hospital Pays U.s. $8,999,999 to Settle False Claims Act Allegations". US Department of Justice – June 21, 2012. June 21, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
