Hackensack Meridian Health Celebrates New Year Babies Born Across The Network As We Ring in 2023, The Network’s First Baby Of The Year, A Boy Born At Hackensack University Medical Center

While the nation was ringing in the start of 2023, several New Jersey families were getting a bit bigger, welcoming the first babies of the new year born across the Hackensack Meridian Health network, New Jersey’s largest, most comprehensive and integrated health network. 

Hackensack Meridian Health proudly welcomes baby boy Jared  to the world, the first baby born in 2023, across the network’s 18 hospitals.  Jared  was born at 12:45 AM on January 1, 2023 at Hackensack University Medical Center. Jared weighs  6 pounds 11 ounces and measures 20 inches. Parents  Edelmira Gonzalez Perez and Ronald Urizar Godoy of Paterson, New Jersey are overjoyed.  

JFK University Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey welcomes a baby boy born at 1:45am to mom Marina Romero of Parlin, New Jersey. The newborn weighs 6 pounds 9 ounces.

Ocean University Medical Center in Brick, New Jersey welcomed a baby boy at 1:54am. The boy, who hasn’t been named yet, weighs 8 pounds 2 ounces and measures 20 inches. Parents Alejandro and Bertha Carpinteiro of Lakewood, New Jersey are excited to welcome their bundle of joy for the new year.

Palisades Medical Center  welcomed the first baby at the hospital, Eithan Vasquez-Hernandez was born at 3:18 AM on January 1, 2023 Eithan weighs 7 pounds 1 ounce and is 49.5 centimeters. He is welcomed by Sulma Vasquez-Hernandez and Luis Saban Cos. 

Other Hackensack Meridian Health Hospitals also welcomed New Year’s babies.  Congratulations to:

• Pascack Valley Medical Center,  welcoming a baby girl as its first baby of 2023 at 11:57am. 
• Raritan Bay Medical Center, welcoming a baby girl, Samantha Garcia Alanis, weighing 6 pounds 6 ounces measuring 19.25 inches in length, born at 12:21pm to mom Alondra Nayeli Garcia Alanis and Dad Zenon Martinez.
• Jersey Shore University Medical Center and the Steier family welcomed a baby girl at  3:38pm, weighing 8 pounds 4 ounces. 
• Riverview Medical Center welcomed both a boy and a girl on New Year’s Day.

“Hackensack Meridian Health is proud to provide world class healthcare to these mothers and babies, along with countless others,” said Hackensack Meridian Health CEO Robert C. Garett, FACHE. “A special thank you to our HMH team members for their continued commitment in caring for the people in the communities we serve and congratulation to these families on their new additions. What a great way to start out the new year.”

Congratulations, and cheers to a wonderful new year! Wishing these babies and their families a lifetime of health and happiness.