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or area seniors, the James and Sharon Maida Geriatrics Institute is a medical mecca. Located at Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus (MMCSC), it offers inpatient and outpatient geriatric services to those 65 and older. “We provide basically headto-toe care,” explains Kaitlyn Errigo, AGNP-C, a nurse practitioner with the Institute. Errigo partners with geriatric
medicine physicians Jessica Israel, MD, and Abhijit Chatterjee, MD, along with another nurse practitioner, Melanie Vernacchia, APN, to make the Institute a virtual one-stop healthcare shop. “You can come in and have your blood work done, and if you need a radiology exam such as a chest X-ray or a CAT scan, we can take care of it right within our facilities,” Errigo says. Patients can also receive geriatric consultations (for
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