(New Brunswick) – The American College of Healthcare Executives – NJ Chapter (ACHE-NJ) honored Bill Arnold with its Distinguished Service Award throughout the group’s Annual Meeting on the New Brunswick Hyatt. Mr. Arnold is Executive Vice President and President of the Southern Region for RWJBarnabas Health and is the Chief Executive Officer of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH). He can also be the Vice Chair of the New Jersey Hospital Association Board of Trustees.

The ACHE-NJ is knowledgeable group for many who direct administration providers and packages inside well being care services, networks and associated organizations. It helps actions to help members in development within the ACHE, together with skilled improvement and expanded networking alternatives. The ACHE-NJ Distinguished Service award is given to a frontrunner who has made important contributions to well being care in New Jersey. Candidates eligible to obtain the award embrace enterprise leaders, clinicians, group volunteers, educators, healthcare directors, legislators, and researchers.

“I am grateful to the many people who have mentored and supported my achievements in health care,” Mr. Arnold stated. “I share this award with all of them and pledge to do the same for the next generation of leaders in our industry.”

Prior to his promotion to the regional position in 2019, he served as president and CEO of Monmouth Medical Center and The Unterberg Children’s Hospital, and he has held a wide range of operational management roles all through his profession with the well being system.

In these roles, Mr. Arnold leads efforts to offer sufferers with built-in care throughout all providers and areas, together with probably the most advanced, comparable to cardiovascular care, trauma, neuroscience and organ transplantation.

Mr. Arnold obtained a Bachelor of Science diploma from Stetson University and a Master’s diploma in Healthcare Administration from Seton Hall University. He serves on the Governing Board of the New Jersey Hospital Association and is a member of the Board of Directors of Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Tinton Falls, VNA Health Group, Boys & Girls Club of Asbury Park and the Children’s Specialized Hospital Foundation. His prior board memberships have included the American Red Cross Jersey Coast Chapter and Long Branch’s Federally Qualified Health Center.

About Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) New Brunswick, an RWJBarnabas Health Facility, is a 640-bed educational medical heart that’s New Jersey’s largest educational medical heart by its deep partnership with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. RWJUH is the flagship Cancer Hospital of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, a nationally-ranked 2023-24 Best Children’s Hospital by U.S. News & World Report. Centers of Excellence embrace cardiovascular care from minimally invasive coronary heart surgical procedure to transplantation, most cancers care, stroke care, neuroscience, orthopedics, bariatric surgical procedure and ladies’s well being. A Level 1 Trauma Center and the primary designated Pediatric Trauma Center within the state, RWJUH’s New Brunswick campus serves as a nationwide useful resource in its ground-breaking approaches to emergency preparedness. Learn extra at www.rwjbh.org/newbrunswick or www.bmsch.org

RWJUH has earned important nationwide recognition for scientific high quality and affected person security, together with the celebrated Magnet® Recognition for Nursing Excellence and being named to Newsweek’s 2023 listing of Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers. The RWJUH Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center has been acknowledged by The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association as assembly The Joint Commission’s requirements for Disease-Specific Care Comprehensive Stroke Center Advanced Certification. RWJUH has additionally earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Disease-Specific Care Certification for Spine Surgery; The Joint Commission Gold Seal Certification for Bariatric Services; and The Joint Commission Gold Seal Certification for Hip and Knee Replacement providers. The Joint Commission additionally awarded RWJUH a Gold Seal Certification in addition to an Advanced Certification in Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Implantation.

Contact: Peter Haigney
RWJUH Public Relations
(732) 937-8568