The Leon Hess Cancer Center

The Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth Medical Center together with Rutgers Cancer Institute, the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center provides an extensive array of highly advanced cancer services, delivered by a multidisciplinary team of specialists in a caring and supportive environment. For decades, Monmouth Medical Center’s leadership role in oncology services has been broadened through the ongoing expansion of The Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth brings together a host of specialists in a convenient setting to offer state-of-the-art programs and technologies in all areas of cancer prevention, detection and treatment.

Monmouth Medical Center is accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (ACoS CoC) with designation as an Academic Comprehensive Cancer Program. ACoS CoC recognizes cancer care programs for their commitment to providing comprehensive high-quality, and multidisciplinary patient-centered care. In addition, because a thorough analysis of the outcomes of diagnosis and treatment is crucial to outstanding care,

Scheduled to open in 2026, the Cancer Center at the Vogel Medical Campus in Tinton Falls will bring advanced comprehensive cancer services all under one roof.

Additionally, The Jacqueline M. Wilentz Comprehensive Breast Center was the first in Monmouth and Ocean counties to be granted full accreditation designation by The National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) for “providing the highest quality evaluation and management of patients with breast disease.” The center also is one of the first two New Jersey facilities and among a handful in the nation to be recognized as a certified quality breast center of excellence, the highest certification level offered by the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers (NQMBC).

• Among a handful of breast imaging centers across the nation designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology’s (ACR) Commission on Quality and Safety and the Commission on Breast Imaging.
• The first facility in New Jersey and just the 20th in the nation to earn ACR’s Gold Seal Accreditation for breast MRI.
• ACR accreditation for mammography, breast ultrasound and stereotactic breast biopsy.
• In total compliance with stringent requirements under the federal Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) with no deficiencies for more than 25 consecutive years.

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