Last fall, more than  350 people came to the Long Branch oceanfront and raised $50,000 for the Regional Newborn Center at Monmouth Medical Center.  Congratulations to all teams on this success! Photos from the event can be found online at http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/orderpage.aspx?pi=0N8K007Y000174&po=174

In September 2007, patients of the Regional Newborn Center (RNC) at The Children's Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center were the benefactors of the inaugural H. and A. Hovnanian Foundation Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Walk, which kicked off on The Great Lawn, at the Pier Village, Long Branch.

In 2008, Monmouth's RNC celebrated its 40th anniversary. Monmouth opened the Regional Newborn Center in 1968, becoming the first hospital in New Jersey and the first community hospital in the country to establish a newborn intensive care unit. Today, the RNC is a state-designated regional perinatal center, the busiest and largest of its kind in Monmouth and Ocean counties, treating more than 500 infants each years from throughout central New Jersey. The RNC has a full array of highly sophisticated technology, and the caregivers focus on responding to a premature or high-risk infant's needs in a precisely measured and appropriate manner.