WALL, N.J. — MONOC Mobile Health Services is proud to announce that Dr. Mark Merlin, one of MONOC’s Medical Directors was honored last month as New York Yankees 2014 EMS Provider of the Year during EMS night at Yankee Stadium.
One provider is honored each year during open nomination from across the country. EMS providers throughout the east coast came to EMS night out and witnessed Dr Merlin get the honor. Dr. Merlin is an Emergency Physician who specializes in Emergency Medical Services (EMS). As a member of MONOC’s Medical Advisory Board, he oversees medical command, specialty care transport services as well as MONOC’s MD-1 program, which is a service where physicians respond to life threatening prehospital emergencies when patients are entrapped and need critical services provided by an EMS Physician.
Dr. Merlin is the Vice-Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, EMS Program Fellowship Director and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University. Additionally Dr Merlin has authored over 60 papers and is a National Institute of Health (NIH) researcher.
MONOC Mobile Health Services is a non-profit hospital cooperative consisting of 15 acute care hospitals located throughout New Jersey. Formed in 1978 MONOC’s mission is to improve healthcare and reduce costs. MONOC employs over 730 employees and operates a fleet of over 100 ambulances. Together this shared services consortium acts as a healthcare cooperative for these acute care hospitals and over 2.8 million residents that they serve living in more than 1,800 square miles of the Garden State.
Among its numerous service lines, MONOC operates MICU Paramedic Services, Helicopter interfacility and 911 services, Mobile Critical Care Services and Basic Life Support interfacility and 911 services. Additionally, MONOC operates the State’s largest EMS education department and a 24/7 state of the art 9-1-1 dispatch center which handled over 156,000 requests for service in 2013.
