Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute Recognized Nationally as a Center for Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Care by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
What You Need To Know
- Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Hackensack University Medical Center recertified by National MS Society as Comprehensive MS Care Center, including doctors who also serve JFK University Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore University Medical Center also recognized by National MS Society as Comprehensive MS Care Center
Hackensack Meridian’s Neuroscience Institute is proud to announce the recertification of its Center for Multiple Sclerosis and Related disease at Hackensack University Medical Center as a Center for Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Care through the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Partners in MS Care program. The renewal of the national certification also recognizes HUMC neurologists also practice out of JFK University Medical Center, making similar services available in Edison.
The Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s Center for Multiple Sclerosis is also nationally recognized by the National MS Society as a Comprehensive MS Center, renewing its certification earlier this year.
While the search for a cure for multiple sclerosis (MS) continues, effective strategies can help modify or slow the disease’s progression, treat relapses (also called attacks or exacerbations), improve symptoms and function, and address emotional health.
An accurate diagnosis of MS is the first step and clinicians at Centers across our network are skilled in ruling out conditions that mimic MS and confirming the disease. Once a diagnosis is confirmed, symptom management is important. By offering care for symptoms such as bladder, bowel and sexual dysfunction, botox injections and intrathecal baclofen therapy pump for spasticity, rehabilitative assessments and care for physical or cognitive impairment, headache management, infusion therapy, pain management, specialty sleep services, speech therapy, swallow therapy and vision services.
In January, the MS Center at Jersey Shore University Medical Center was certified as a Center for Comprehensive MS Care through the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Partners in MS Care program.
Both centers provide patients access to the latest in emerging therapies available through our numerous clinical trials and research.
The MS Society says the model of comprehensive MS care best treats the patient as whole. It involves the expertise of many different healthcare professionals — each contributing in a unique way to the management of the disease and the symptoms it can cause. Coordinating the efforts of health professionals trained to treat MS from various disciplines provides patients with neurological and nursing care, individual and family counseling and education, physical, occupational, and speech therapies, and social services. An interdisciplinary approach to MS care facilitates coordination of services and continuity of care, while avoiding duplication and fragmentation for the patient and family. Comprehensive care embraces a philosophy of empowerment – the person with MS is an active participant in planning and implementing healthcare and self-care activities. He or she is a consultant to the team, which is important because MS, like all chronic illnesses, will last a lifetime.
This formal recognition honors the Centers’ ongoing commitment to high-quality MS care. The Comprehensive MS Care Center distinction is appointed by a national committee, and the organization must demonstrate coordinated, multi-disciplinary care for MS. To receive this recognition, Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute specialists have continually demonstrated a wealth of knowledge, experience, and the important attention to detail necessary in treating people living with MS.