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Chilton Memorial Hospital

Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center is a non-profit acute care community hospital in the Pompton Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey. Located at 97 West Parkway, it is the only hospital serving the Pequannock Township area. In 2021 it was given a grade A by the Leapfrog patient safety organization.

In 1947, Forrest S. Chilton Jr., MD and his wife, Elizabeth, a registered nurse, donated land located on Newark-Pompton Turnpike with the vision of building a hospital. At the time, Chilton was the only doctor in the area and was operating a maternity ward in his home's attic.

During its infancy, Chilton obtained funding from his business associate Aniello Vitale, and raised additional capital from the community and patients by soliciting donations door to door, via a contribution jar in his office and contributing from his own income. In 1954, the facility opened with fifty beds, named in honor of his son, Forrest S. Chilton III, who died in World War II.

In 1961, it was expanded to a 119-bed facility.

Some people who remember or were born in the Newark-Pompton Turnpike building, which has since been turned into condominiums, affectionately refer to the original location by the nickname "The Old Chilton."

New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter was born at "Old Chilton" on June 26, 1974.Clint Wiest of C.W.C was born at "old Chilton" on April 3.1967.

On November 20, 1971 a second facility was dedicated on West Parkway, where Chilton Medical Center still operates today.

Both buildings were used concurrently until 1984

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