January 2010
• ASC of Union County serves as Medical Drop off for Haiti

NEW: Click here to see photos of our collection efforts

The Ambulatory Surgical Center of Union County, 950 West Chestnut St. Union, NJ, is serving as the NJ state medical supply drop off center for Haiti supplies. The center is asking medical offices and facilities to donate medical supplies such as gloves, masks, tubing, alcohol wipes, ace wraps, dressing supplies, cotton, gauze, sutures, hand sanitizers, and IV.

The public is encouraged to drop off: band-aids, topical anti fungal cream, aspirin, antacids, first aid kits, HAND SANITIZER, Neosporin, and medical soaps.

The ASC is working in conjunction with the United Way, The Red Cross and Inspire Haiti.
Donations may be dropped of at the ASC, Monday - Friday 6:30 am – 5pm, through April 1st. Arrangements may be made to pick up large donations.
One of the center’s anesthesiologists along with a surgeon and OR nurse will be flying to Haiti on a jet sponsored by Inspire Haiti.

Contact Marcy Sasso, Director of Operations at 908 688-2700 or msasso@ascunion.com

All donations small or large will be accepted.

Click here to download a PDF with this information.

Drop off locations:
All volunteer first aid squads in Morris County

MAIN DROP OFF
Ambulatory Surgical Center of Union County
950 W. Chestnut St.
Union, NJ 07083
(908) 688-2700 M-F 6:30 am- 5:30 pm

Kingley Health
120 Centennial Ave
Piscataway, NJ 
(732) 283-1900

Make Time Fitness (behind the Morristown diner)
10 Wilmot St.
Morristown, NJ 07060
(973) 984-8463
(small items)

State Farm
630 Main Rd (Rt 202)
Towaco, NJ 07082
(973) 402-9000

Medemerge
1005 N. Washington Ave
Greenbrook, NJ 08812
(732) 968-8900
M-S 8-8

Flanders Fire and Rescue
27 Main St.
Flanders, NJ
(973) 703-6604

Paramus Surgical Center
30 W. Century Rd. Suite 300
Paramus, NJ 07652
(201) 986-9000

D&J Institute Center
160 Ocean Ave
Jersey City, NJ 07305
(201) 324-0058

New York & NJ Area and to arrange for pick-ups
Peggy Baffoni (Kingley Health)
(301) 788-0838

Specialty Surgical Center
380 Lafayette Rd. Suite 110
Sparta, NJ
(973) 940-3166
M-F 7am-6pm

December 2009
• ASC Union is selected from over 4000 surgicenters to be the 2009 SURGistrategies Who's Who.
Click here to read the full article.

October 2009
• Congratulations to Mary Koch, RN, BSN, CNOR for passing her PALS certification.

• The ASC announces a new physician on staff: Shannon Mulvery,  DC - Chiropractor
We wish her a great future with the ASC.

September 2009
• Congratulations to Karen Gugulski, RN for obtaining her CNOR certification. All ASC OR nurses are now Nationally Certified!

• The Podiatrists, in keeping with changing trends, are trialing PRP injections.

August 2009
• Congratulations to Lauren Orlando, our OR tech, who was recently certified in Sterile Processing

July 2009
• The ASC announces a new physician on staff: Arvinder Dhillon, MD - Pain Management. We wish him a great future with the ASC.

June 2009
• Congratulations to Marcy Sasso on her achievement in being cited among top U.S. Directors of surgery centers. Click here to read the full Madison Eagle article.

• The ASC has obtained AAAHC accreditation for three years. Congratulations to all the hard work that was accomplished by the staff to obtain such high status.

May 2009
• The ASC sponsored a community Health Fair - Click here to view the Fair Flier

AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTERS, GIVING BACK – A free, community health fair was held recently in Union, NJ, under the sponsorship of the Ambulatory Surgical Center of Union County and Gateway Regional Chamber of Commerce. The event included physicians representing a broad range of specialties, various health tests and screening procedures, plus multiple activities for children and their families.

New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers President Sharon DeMato (right), Marcy Sasso, director of operations for host Ambulatory Surgery Center of Union County (left) and Dr. David J. Greifinger (center) spend some time in the main tent, where many of the health screenings were held.

A local youngster gets her face colorfully painted by health fair volunteer Patricia Dulinski.

In the chiropractic section of the fair, Cranford-based chiropractor Dr. Joe Bryson conducts a free evaluation of one attendee’s lower spine.

April 2009
• Dr.’s Glenn Davison and Robert Hutchinson, ASC staff Podiatrists were appointed to the medical staff at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston NJ. They will be working in the wound care center and supervising the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for non-healing foot wounds.

• The ASC announces new physicians on staff:
Matthew Coons, MD - Plastic Surgeon
Julia Iwamasa, MD - Anesthesiologist
We wish them a great future with the ASC of Union County.

March 2009
• The ASC celebrated Doctor’s Day. We give a round of applause to all of our top notch doctors.

• Karen Gugulski, RN and Mary Koch, RN, BSN, CNOR attended an Infection Control Seminar in Livingston, NJ.

February 2009
• The ASC of Union is so proud to announce that Debbi Holley, RN is their new Director of Nursing.

Debbi Holley, RN, BSN, has 30 years of professional hospital experience includes: staff nursing, Patient Care Coordinator, Manager and Director. She has worked with cardiac, respiratory, neuro and med-surgical patients. She started her career as an LPN for many years before going back to obtain her RN from Elizabeth General School of Nursing. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Jacksonville University. She is a member of the American Association of Critical Nurses and has her PCCN certification. She started her career at the ASC as a staff nurse and currently is the Director of Nursing. She is the mother of three daughters and grandmother to four grandsons.

• The ASC becomes a member of
The Gateway Chamber of Commerce.

• The ASC announces new physicians on staff:
Jay Gordon, DC - Chiropractor
Victor Fano, DC- Chiropractor
We wish them a great future with the ASC of Union County.

January 2009 
• Celebrating our 8 Year Anniversary: The ASC of Union sponsors an open house for referring offices

• The ASC of Union was a place to put names with faces on a cold January afternoon.
Patty Barra Smith gave the visitors an overview on insurance and billing matters, while Debbi Holley gave them a tour of the state of the art Surgical facility. “It was great to meet so many of the staff we talk to on a daily basis”, comments Lori Bradley- front office coordinator.

December 2008
• Collect new toys for the holiday, for our community children.

The ASC teamed up with the Union Police to collect new toys for the holiday community children. The ASC had a 5-foot box in their waiting room for visitors and staff to help fill and make dreams come true. The police had to make 2 trips to get more than $3,000.00 of brand new toys back to their base for holiday wrapping. "We were so excited to be a part of something that would bring smiles to so many boys and girls," said Sasso. The police hand deliver toys to families on Christmas morning. We will make this an annual tradition.