Dr. Lawrence Livingston Named Chief of Orthopedics at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center 

Englewood, NJ, October 3, 2011 – Lawrence I. Livingston, MD, has been named Chief of Orthopedics at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center. A noted orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Livingston joined the Englewood Hospital Medical Staff in 2007. He came to the Medical Center from the former Packsack Valley Hospital in Westwood, NJ, where he served as Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery for 12 years.

Dr. Livingston has also served as the orthopedic surgeon for the New Jersey Nets professional basketball team and has been a consultant to the New York Giant NFL team. Dr. Livingston has broad experience in orthopedics, with a major focus on knee and shoulder disorders and knee and arthroscopic surgery of the knee and shoulder, as well as knee and hip replacement surgery.

The Orthopedic Surgery Program and Joint Replacement Center at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center brings together a combination of surgical expertise and state-of-the-art technology to deliver compassionate orthopedic care at the highest level.

Patients benefit from a highly-skilled, multi-disciplinary team, which includes the area’s top orthopedic surgeons, Magnet nurses dedicated to orthopedic surgical care, and  top ratings in patient satisfaction and patient safety. Additionally, patients have access to on-site rehabilitation medicine and gym facilities, the use of integrative healing modalities including massage therapy and alternative pain management techniques, and an all-new patient care space with private rooms and an exceptional atmosphere where patients and their families come first. 

About Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center provides patients with the highest level of compassionate care through a broad range of state-of-the-art clinical programs and the most advanced treatments and diagnostic services. It is renowned for its bloodless medicine and surgery program, cardiac and vascular programs and its leadership in breast care, oncology and joint replacement services. Through its affiliation with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Mount Sinai Consortium for Graduate Medical Education, this thriving, acute-care and community teaching hospital trains medical residents in a variety of disciplines, including internal medicine, critical care medicine, surgery, pediatrics, podiatry, and pathology.  Englewood Hospital is home to a Vascular Fellowship Program that has trained a generation of world-class vascular surgeons.  Additionally, many members of the medical staff at Englewood Hospital serve as faculty members at Mount Sinai. Englewood Hospital has earned numerous accreditations from the Joint Commission and other organizations and is among the six percent of hospitals nationwide honored with the prestigious Magnet nursing award, a distinction that has been earned three consecutive times by its nursing staff.  In addition, more physicians at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center are chosen as “Best Doctors” than at any other hospital in the state. This is according to New York Magazine’s 14th annual Best Doctors issue, a list of first-rate doctors in the tri-state area as determined by physicians who choose peers to care for themselves or their family members.