Monmouth Medical Center Names New Chief Nursing Officer

Long Branch – Monmouth Medical Center (MMC) has named Ann M. Szapor, MBA, BSN, RN, NEA-BC, who has nine years’ experience as a Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and Vice President of Nursing with Magnet-designated facilities, to its top nursing leadership role. As CNO, Szapor, is responsible for the operational clinical practice, education and research delivered through nursing clinical services at MMC.

She joins MMC from Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston, the largest not-for-profit health system in southeast Texas, were she served as Chief Nursing Officer since 2017. Prior to that, she served as CNO for Ocala Regional Medical Center in Ocala, FL.

From 2009 to 2014, she served as Assistant Vice President for AtlanticCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, where she also served as Executive Director, Women’s/Children’s Health Services. Szapor began her nurse leadership career as Assistant Head Nurse and Staff Development Instructor at MMC’s sister RWJBarnabas Health hospital, Community Medical Center in Toms River.

“Ann is an accomplished executive with an extensive background and progressive experience in complex multi-campus health care systems,” says Eric Carney, President and CEO of MMC and Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus in Lakewood. “She also has a proven track record of leading her organizations to multiple successful Magnet designations and re-designations.”

On August 12, MMC learned it had been re-designated as a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), becoming the first hospital in New Jersey and 11th in the nation to earn Magnet Recognition with Distinction®.

Monmouth Medical Center (MMC), an RWJBarnabas Health facility, along with The Unterberg Children’s Hospital, is a regional teaching campus for Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. As the first hospital in Monmouth and Ocean counties, MMC offers the most experienced surgeons in robotics and other minimally invasive procedures as well as bariatric and joint and spine surgery. MMC delivers more babies annually than all other hospitals in Monmouth and Ocean counties combined. The hospital offers access to the region’s top cardiologists and the award-winning, nationally recognized RWJBarnabas Heart Centers. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has conferred Magnet® recognition for MMC, one of just 509 U.S. health care organizations out of more than 6,300 U.S. hospitals to achieve Magnet recognition. MMC has received more “A” Hospital Safety Scores from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit organization, than any other hospital in the region. The hospital has also been named a Leapfrog Top Teaching Hospital three times. MMC is one of just 414 of the more than 6,000 hospital hospitals in the U.S. named to Newsweek’s Global Best Hospitals’ list for two consecutive years, and one of 148 U.S. hospitals named to the digital platform Money’s inaugural list of the Best Hospitals in America. Additionally, it is one of 34 U.S. hospitals honored by the Emergency Nurses Association with the 2022–2025 Lantern Award for excellence in emergency care, and for the eighth consecutive year, was honored by

Healthgrades with the Obstetrics and Gynecology and Labor and Delivery Excellence Awards. U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has recognized MMC among the 2023-2024 Best Hospitals for Maternity Care, which identifies hospitals that provide high-quality maternity care for uncomplicated pregnancies. RWJBarnabas Health and MMC, in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey — the state’s only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center — brings a world class team of researchers and specialists to fight alongside patients, providing close-to-home access to the latest treatment and clinical trials.