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Eric Carney

President and CEO

Monmouth Medical Center and Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus

Long Branch, NJ

Mr. Carney serves as president and CEO of Monmouth Medical Center, a 514-bed teaching hospital with more than 2,000 employees that sees more than 23,000 inpatients and 46,000 emergency visits annually, and of Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus, a 241-bed community hospital with nearly 750 staff members. He also leads the radiology service line for the broader West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health system. Under his leadership, Monmouth Medical Center opened the Anne Vogel Family Care & Wellness Center in 2022, whose LiveWell Center has delivered nearly 21,000 community health education programs, and broke ground in 2023 on a specialty and cancer care center at the Vogel Medical Campus in Tinton Falls, N.J., expected to open in early 2027 in partnership with the New Brunswick-based Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Mr. Carney provided key leadership in securing the New Jersey Department of Health’s approval to relocate medical/surgical, maternity and pediatric services to the Vogel campus, and he oversaw the introduction of the Ion robot-assisted platform for lung biopsies, making Monmouth Medical Center the first hospital in central and southern New Jersey to offer the technology. He also introduced an employee experience department featuring a “Thriving Together Program” with dedicated staff relaxation suites. Under his leadership, Monmouth Medical Center was named a “Top Teaching Hospital” by the Leapfrog Group for a fourth time in 2025, while Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus earned six consecutive Leapfrog “A” safety grades. Mr. Carney was named to the New Jersey Hospital Association’s 2026 board slate as secretary and chairs the finance committee of the board of directors at Monmouth Family Health Center.

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