Summit Medical Group
Encyclopedia
Summit Medical Group is a physician-owned, for-profit, multispecialty medical practice
headquartered in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
. It was founded in 1929 by William H. Lawrence, MD, and Maynard G. Bensley, MD as The Diagnostic Group of Summit. It expanded to a second location in 1950. In 2003, Summit Medical Group signed a lease for a 42-acre office complex in Murray Hill, New Jersey
that formerly housed the D&B Corporation. Summit Medical Group now includes a total of 11 satellite offices in Bayonne
, Millburn
, Morristown
, Short Hills
, Summit
, Warren, and Westfield, New Jersey
. Summit Medical Group treats approximately 55,000 patients per month, and offers approximately 70 specialties, with 250 doctors and other medical practitioners. Summit Medical Group employs more than 1200 people. Its annual revenue is approximately $200 million.
Summit Medical Group was listed among New Jersey’s fastest growing companies in 2008, 2009, and 2010. It is a NJBIZ 2010 Corporate Citizen of the Year Award finalist and it earned the 2010 Communitas Leadership Award.
Medical practice
A medical practice or practice of medicine is the practice of medicine, as performed by a medical practitioner—a physician...
headquartered in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
Berkeley Heights is a township in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 13,183....
. It was founded in 1929 by William H. Lawrence, MD, and Maynard G. Bensley, MD as The Diagnostic Group of Summit. It expanded to a second location in 1950. In 2003, Summit Medical Group signed a lease for a 42-acre office complex in Murray Hill, New Jersey
Murray Hill, New Jersey
Murray Hill is an unincorporated area within portions of both Berkeley Heights and New Providence, located in Union County in northern New Jersey, United States....
that formerly housed the D&B Corporation. Summit Medical Group now includes a total of 11 satellite offices in Bayonne
Bayonne, New Jersey
Bayonne is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Located in the Gateway Region, Bayonne is a peninsula that is situated between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill van Kull to the south, and New York Bay to the east...
, Millburn
Millburn, New Jersey
Millburn is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 20,149.Millburn Township was created as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 20, 1857, from portions of Springfield Township.Millburn also...
, Morristown
Morristown, New Jersey
Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 18,411. It is the county seat of Morris County. Morristown became characterized as "the military capital of the American Revolution" because of its strategic role in the...
, Short Hills
Short Hills, New Jersey
Short Hills is an unincorporated area located within the township of Millburn, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is a popular commuter town for residents who work in New York City...
, Summit
Summit, New Jersey
Summit is a city in Union County, New Jersey, United States. At the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 21,457. Summit had the 16th-highest per capita income in the state as of the 2000 Census....
, Warren, and Westfield, New Jersey
Westfield, New Jersey
Westfield is a town in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 30,316. The old village area, now the downtown district, was settled in 1720 as part of the Elizabethtown Tract....
. Summit Medical Group treats approximately 55,000 patients per month, and offers approximately 70 specialties, with 250 doctors and other medical practitioners. Summit Medical Group employs more than 1200 people. Its annual revenue is approximately $200 million.
Summit Medical Group was listed among New Jersey’s fastest growing companies in 2008, 2009, and 2010. It is a NJBIZ 2010 Corporate Citizen of the Year Award finalist and it earned the 2010 Communitas Leadership Award.
Research and care management
- In 2002, Summit Medical Group began a multiyear project to implement practice-wide electronic health records (EHR). By 2007, it was completely paperless
- Summit Medical Group developed a "Diabetes Live Well Program," which has helped get 19% of its diabetes patients A1c levels under control – a figure that compared favorably with US national average A1c controls of 9% In June 2008, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) awarded it a Education Recognition Certificate for the diabetes program
- In 2009, Summit Medical Group extended the use of electronic health records across the practice. It also implemented a practice-wide clinical decision support (CDS) system that established quality care metrics for each of its physicians in every location
- In September 2009, Summit Medical Group released "Coordination of Multidisciplinary Resources for Vaccination of Egg-allergic Individuals During an H1N1 (Novel) Influenza Pandemic," a study showing the benefits of H1N1H1N1'Influenza A virus is a subtype of influenza A virus and was the most common cause of human influenza in 2009. Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans and cause a small fraction of all influenza-like illness and a small fraction of all seasonal influenza. H1N1 strains caused a few percent of...
immunization and the safety of vaccines for egg-allergic patients. (Source: Independent Press) - In January 2011, Summit Medical Group formed an Accountable care organizationAccountable care organizationAn accountable care organization is a type of payment and delivery reform model that seeks to tie provider reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the total cost of care for an assigned population of patients. A group of coordinated health care providers form an ACO, which then...
(ACO) in anticipation of US federal health care law - As of July 2011, Summit Medical Group has enrolled patients in clinical trials for allergyAllergyAn Allergy is a hypersensitivity disorder of the immune system. Allergic reactions occur when a person's immune system reacts to normally harmless substances in the environment. A substance that causes a reaction is called an allergen. These reactions are acquired, predictable, and rapid...
, asthmaAsthmaAsthma is the common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath...
, diabetes, goutGoutGout is a medical condition usually characterized by recurrent attacks of acute inflammatory arthritis—a red, tender, hot, swollen joint. The metatarsal-phalangeal joint at the base of the big toe is the most commonly affected . However, it may also present as tophi, kidney stones, or urate...
, and oncologyOncologyOncology is a branch of medicine that deals with cancer...
. Its oncology trials include studies for breast cancerBreast cancerBreast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...
, colorectal cancerColorectal cancerColorectal cancer, commonly known as bowel cancer, is a cancer caused by uncontrolled cell growth , in the colon, rectum, or vermiform appendix. Colorectal cancer is clinically distinct from anal cancer, which affects the anus....
, leukemiaLeukemiaLeukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...
, lung cancerLung cancerLung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...
, lymphomaLymphomaLymphoma is a cancer in the lymphatic cells of the immune system. Typically, lymphomas present as a solid tumor of lymphoid cells. Treatment might involve chemotherapy and in some cases radiotherapy and/or bone marrow transplantation, and can be curable depending on the histology, type, and stage...
, prostate cancerProstate cancerProstate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...
, and rheumatoid arthritisRheumatoid arthritisRheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks synovial joints. The process produces an inflammatory response of the synovium secondary to hyperplasia of synovial cells, excess synovial fluid, and the development...
Affiliations and partnerships
Summit Medical Group has affiliations and partnerships with:- American Medical Group AssociationAmerican Medical Group AssociationThe American Medical Group Association is a national trade association representing medical groups and other organized systems of health care, including some of the nation’s largest integrated healthcare delivery systems...
- Bayonne Medical CenterBayonne Medical CenterBayonne Medical Center is a hospital in Bayonne, New Jersey. Established in 1888, Bayonne Medical Center is a 278-bed, fully accredited, acute-care hospital....
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterMemorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center is a cancer treatment and research institution founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital...
- Mountainside HospitalMountainside HospitalMountainside Hospital is a community hospital located in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. The hospital has 365 beds and serves Northeastern Essex County. On May 31, 2007, it was purchased by Merit Health Systems, a privately-owned for-profit Louisville, Kentucky hospital management company which acquires,...
- Morristown Hospital (now known as Morristown Medical Center)
- Newark Beth Israel Medical CenterNewark Beth Israel Medical CenterNewark Beth Israel Medical Center, previously Newark Beth Israel Hospital, is the largest hospital in Newark, New Jersey, in the United States. It was run under auspices of the Newark Jewish Community and its suburban successors from its inception in 1900-1901 until its purchase by the St Barnabas...
- Overlook Hospital Overlook HospitalOverlook Hospital is a 504-bed non-profit teaching hospital located in Summit, New Jersey, United States, 20 miles west of New York City. On a hill in the center of the city, the hospital is one of Summit's three largest employers and offers medical services to Summit and surrounding communities in...
(now known as Overlook Medical Center) - St. Barnabas Medical Center