Riverview Medical Center

History

The hospital was founded in June 1922 as Woodley Hospital|Woodley Sanitarium and Nursing Home in Little Silver, New Jersey, by Mary Augusta Garner Seaman on the family's Victorian estate. In 1927, it relocated to two rented houses at 139 Broad Street, Red Bank, New Jersey, after the Little Silver property was sold by Miss Seaman's mother. It was incorporated in 1928 and moved to a renovated boarding house on Union Street as Red Bank Hospital, with 29 beds, one operating room, a delivery suite and facilities for six newborns. After a public naming contest, it was renamed Riverview Hospital on August 10, 1929.

Facilities

Riverview Medical Center was purchased by Hackensack University Medical Center in 2016, and is now a part of Hackensack Meridian Health.

Riverview Medical Center provides assisted living nursing home care and home care.

Riverview Medical Center was ranked third in 2019 by Soliant Health on its 2019 list of the most beautiful hospitals in the United States.

Notable deaths

• Karl Guthe Jansky (1905–1954)
• Harold A. Zahl (1904–1973)
• Mason Welch Gross (1911–1977)
• Katharine Elkus White (1906–1985)
• Alfred Nash Beadleston, Jr. (1912–2000)
• Lynn Yamada Davis (1956–2024)

References

References

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2. "NursingALD.com - NJ Hospitals Earn Magnet Recognition".
3. Giles, Avery. (July 18, 1973). "Says Found of Riverview Deserves Memorial Plaque". The Daily Register (Red Bank).
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