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RWJBarnabas Health was created through the 2016 merger of the Robert Wood Johnson Health System and the Saint Barnabas Health Care System. As of 2022 [update] , RWJBarnabas employs over 40,000 individuals, with 1,000 resident and interns and approximately 1,500 volunteers across the entire health network and its subordinates.
The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital was founded as the New Brunswick City Hospital in 1884, [3] but it changed its name to the John Wells Memorial Hospital in 1889 when community leader and volunteer Grace Tileston Wells donated a building at the corner of Somerset and Division streets in honor of her late husband, John Wells.
The site is near the light rail, ferries to New York City, PATH trains and the Liberty Science Center. The facility, currently operated by Barnabas Health, is the region's state-designated trauma center and the only hospital in Hudson County to do open heart surgery. Several additional buildings are being planned for the site.
The RWJ Barnabas Health website indicates that the facility at 210 Somerset St., a 15-story ambulatory medical pavilion, will be home to outpatient services for the hospital and Rutgers Robert ...
In 2011, the Saint Barnabas Health Care System was renamed to Barnabas Health. [7] In 2015, Barnabas Health and Robert Wood Johnson Health System signed an agreement which outlines the merger between these two health systems. Once complete, the transaction will create New Jersey’s largest health care system and one of the largest in the nation.
In 2015, Barnabas Health (parent organization of Community Medical Center) merged with Robert Woods Johnson Health System, making the Medical Center now part of RWJBarnabas Health, the largest academic health system in New Jersey. [5]
The Urology ranking recognizes a four-hospital practice that is based at The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital but that also provides care at three other RWJBarnabas Health hospitals – with Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, McMullen Children’s Center at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, and ...
The next major phase, in 1984, increased beds to 354, and the hospital was renamed Kimball Medical Center to reflect the scope of services. In the 1990s, the once-tiny hospital was transformed to be a major medical center within Barnabas Health. By 2007, Kimball was treating over 55,000 emergency patients per year. [3]