AtlantiCare unveils new Medical Arts Pavilion in Atlantic City
November 16, 2022
AtlantiCare held a cermonial ribbon cutting for its new Medical Arts Pavilion on Ohio Avenue in Atlantic City November 15. The $38.3 million facility is all-new construction the regional healthcare system specifically developed to enhance access to quality care for the Atlantic City community.
AtlantiCare staff and providers, and local, state and federal community and business leaders toured the site during the daylong event. The celebration also included a reception for New Jersey artists who contributed to the 220 pieces throughout the building through the AtlantiCare Foundation’s Healing Arts Program.
“This is a special day in the history of AtlantiCare,” said Lori Herndon, MBA, BSN, RN, president and CEO, AtlantiCare. “We are recommitting to the purpose and the meaning of being all-in in Atlantic City. This is the place where care is going to make a difference and healing is going to make an impact every day.”
Through the facility, AtlantiCare will address healthcare disparities, social determinants of health and the national physician shortage. It will expand its Maternal Fetal Medicine, Family Planning and Safe Beginnings programs aimed at giving mothers, babies and families healthy starts to life. AtlantiCare’s and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Pediatrics and Family Medicine teaching clinics will expand.
The Pavilion is also the new home base of AtlantiCare’s Medical Education Program. It includes a state-of-the-art Simulation Center with four simulation labs and an auditorium with 148 seats.
AtlantiCare’s FQHC will open a dental clinic in the Pavilion 2023. AtlantiCare’s joint venture dialysis center with Fresenius Kidney Care and its outpatient Neurosurgery Clinic will relocate to the Pavilion in 2023.
“It is fitting that this Medical Arts Pavilion is on the same block where AtlantiCare began caring for our community in 1898, when we opened as Atlantic City Hospital,” said Michael Charlton, chair, AtlantiCare’s system Board. “In 2023, we will begin marking our 125th year of serving the Atlantic City community and the broader region that now includes five counties of New Jersey. The AtlantiCare team enhances, changes and save lives one person, one milestone at a time. The Board and I are grateful for our healthcare team’s commitment to caring, and proud of the difference they are making.
AtlantiCare anticipates opening the Medical Arts Pavilion to patients in December, pending final approvals from the New Jersey Department of Health.
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AtlantiCare is an integrated healthcare system based in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, whose more than 6,000 staff, providers and volunteers serve the community in more than 100 locations in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May and Ocean counties of southern New Jersey. Its vision of building healthy communities together drives its mission of making a difference in health and healing, one person at a time, through caring and trusting relationships. A Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner, AtlantiCare was also included in Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work. AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center was the 105th hospital in the nation to attain the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet™ designation in 2004 and earned redesignation in 2008, 2013, in 2018. Learn more at atlanticare.org or 1-888-569-1000.
