{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical Center | org_group = Hackensack Meridian Health | image = Mountainside Hospital in Montclair.JPG | logo = Mountainsie-hmh-logo.png | coordinates = {{coord|40.812|-74.204|display=inline,title}} | location = Glen Ridge, New Jersey, U.S. | healthcare = Medicare (US), Medicaid | type = Teaching | emergency = Yes | standards = JCAHO | affiliation = New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine | beds = 365 | founded = in 1891 as<br />"The Mountainside Hospital" | website = {{URL|www.mountainsidemedicalcenter.com}} }}
'''Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical Center''', also known as '''Mountainside Hospital''', is an acute-care hospital located in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States. The hospital has 365 beds and serves Northern Essex County.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.healthcareitnews.com/press-release/365-bed-mountainside-hospital-achieves-stage-1-meaningful-use |title=365-bed Mountainside Hospital achieves Stage 1 meaningful use |website=Healthcare IT News |date= December 2, 2011|access-date=October 27, 2024}}</ref> A part of the Hackensack University Health Network, Mountainside Hospital is one of only two for-profit hospitals in New Jersey.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/2007/06/new_owners_for_mountainside_ho.html |title=New owners for Mountainside Hospital |website=blog.nj.com |date= 5 June 2007|access-date=June 17, 2009}}</ref> It is also a clinical campus and affiliate of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine and provides clinical clerkship education for the medical school's osteopathic medical students.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Clinical Education Institutions {{!}} College of Osteopathic Medicine {{!}} New York Tech|url=https://www.nyit.edu/medicine/clinical_education_institutions|access-date=2021-09-26|website=www.nyit.edu|archive-date=2022-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214172851/https://www.nyit.edu/medicine/clinical_education_institutions|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== About == As of 2020, Mountainside Hospital provides 12 specialties and hosts 47 full-time interns and residents.<ref>{{Cite web|title=American Hospital Directory - Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical Center (310054) - Free Profile|url=https://www.ahd.com/free_profile/310054/Hackensack_Meridian_Health_Mountainside_Medical_Center_/Montclair/New_Jersey/|access-date=2021-12-09|website=www.ahd.com}}</ref> It is designated a community perinatal center, intermediate, and a primary stroke center.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NJ Department of Health|url=https://www.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/dhss/healthfacilities/hospitaldisplay.pl?id=10708|access-date=2021-12-09|website=www.state.nj.us}}</ref>
In 2021 it received from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association a Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and a Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll Award.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Local|first=Montclair|title=Hackensack Meridian Mountainside wins award for stroke treatment {{!}} Montclair Local News|url=https://www.montclairlocal.news/2021/10/25/hackensack-meridian-mountainside-wins-award-for-stroke-treatment/|access-date=2021-12-09|website=www.montclairlocal.news|date=25 October 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref>
It owns and operates two centers for immediate injury and acute illness care, one in Bloomfield and the other in Clifton.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-03|title=Mountainside Hospital Buys 2 Immedicenter Offices In NJ|url=https://patch.com/new-jersey/montclair/mountainside-hospital-buys-2-immedicenter-offices-nj|access-date=2021-12-09|website=Montclair, NJ Patch|language=en}}</ref>
==History==
In the summer of 1890, Margaret Jane Merewether Power of Montclair, New Jersey came upon a small child who had fallen from a third story window, and was in need of serious medical attention. Upset at the fact that there was no nearby health care facility, Mrs. Power called upon other ladies in her social circle, and vowed to work toward a solution to the problem. In 1891,<ref>{{Cite web|title=NEW BREAST IMAGING TECHNOLOGY AT HACKENSACK MERIDIAN MOUNTAINSIDE MEDICAL CENTER DELIVERS MAMMOGRAMS IN 3D AND ENHANCES DELIVERY OF CARE|url=https://www.tapinto.net/towns/montclair/articles/new-breast-imaging-technology-at-hackensack-meridian-mountainside-medical-center-delivers-mammograms-in-3d-and-enhances-delivery-of-care|access-date=2021-12-09|website=TAPinto|language=en}}</ref> a three-story building was purchased and prepared to care for patients. Dr. John J.H. Love was named the first President of the Medical and Surgical Staff of "The Mountainside Hospital". The word "The" was later dropped from the hospital's formal name, making it simply "Mountainside Hospital".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mountainsidenow.org/about.htm |title=Mountainside Hospital |accessdate=2009-06-17 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090604092824/http://www.mountainsidenow.org/about.htm |archivedate=2009-06-04 }}. Accessed June 17, 2009.</ref>
On May 31, 2007, it was purchased by Merit Health Systems, a privately owned for-profit Louisville, Kentucky hospital management company that acquires, owns and operates community hospitals. Merit continued to operate the hospital until February 1, 2012, when ownership of the hospital was transferred to Montclair Health System, LLC, a joint venture between LHP Hospital Group, Inc. (LHP) (now Ardent Health Services) and Hackensack Meridian Health, who together also operate Hackensack University Medical Center at Pascack Valley in Westwood, New Jersey.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mountainsidehosp.com/News-and-Events/News/Mountainside-Hospital-News-2012/Mountainside-Hospital-Set-for-a-New-Phase-of-Commu.aspx?clientcache=0 |title= Mountainside Hospital - New Jersey Community Hospital, Montclair, NJ|website=www.mountainsidehosp.com |access-date=March 18, 2013}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}</ref>
==In popular culture== On the American television drama series ''The Sopranos'', A.J. Soprano is placed in the psychiatric ward at Mountainside Hospital after he tries to drown himself in the family pool. Later, his father Tony Soprano gets a bill of $2,200 per day for warehousing his son at the mental health facility.
==People== * Kevin O'Connor, D.O., physician to President Joe Biden, completed his family medicine residency at Mountainside Medical Center and his doctorate medical education at the hospital's affiliated New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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==External links== * [http://www.mountainsidemedicalcenter.com Official website] {{Hackensack Meridian Health Hospitals}}
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