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University
Hospital:
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the core teaching facility of the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School,
The University Hospital is the center of referral for many of
the state’s most advanced medical services and specialty
care programs. Our commitment to education, primary care and
specialized referral services has produced the most extensive
array of inpatient and outpatient services available in the
state of New Jersey.
The University Hospital offers a wide range of specialty services
including northern New Jersey’s only Level 1 Trauma Center
(incorporating a trauma-intensive care unit and the NorthSTAR
helicopter emergency and critical care transport system), a
regional center for neonatal intensive care, the Obesity Treatment
Center, the Cochlear Implant Program,, a neurosurgical intensive
care unit and a special Brain Tumor Program, the Neurological
Institute of New Jersey, a federally designated spinal cord
injury program, The University Center for Bloodless Surgery
and Medicine, and New Jersey’s only Liver Transplant Program.
The hospital is staffed by 300 full-time attending physicians
who are also faculty members of the New Jersey Medical School.
The University Hospital has more than 19,000 admissions, 2,700
births, and 215,000 outpatient visits annually.
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center - East Orange
Located in northeastern New Jersey within the greater New York
metropolitan area, the East Orange Campus is the only VA tertiary
care facility in the state.A wide variety of medical, surgical,
and psychiatric programs are available .
In addition, the James J. Howard Satellite Outpatient Clinic,
located in Brick, NJ, serves veterans in south and central New
Jersey. The VA New Jersey Health Care System also operates Community-Based
Health Care Practices in Hackensack, Trenton and Fort Dix. As
a major teaching institution, the East Orange Campus maintains
47 separate affiliations, including one extensive physician
residency program, various nursing school affiliations and 33
allied health trainee programs. A recognized leader in research,
the East Orange Campus maintains a very active research program
with over 60 investigators conducting pioneering work in areas
such as infectious disease, cardiovascular disease, and the
health effects of smoking. The VA New Jersey Health Care System
East Orange Campus is designated as one of four Environmental
Hazards Centers in the country. The Gulf War Research Center
was established by the Department of Veterans Affairs to study
the health consequences of having served in the Gulf.
Hackensack University Medical
Center
 Hackensack
University Medical Center is a 629 bed academic community medical
center providing regional healthcare for Northern New Jersey.
Hackensack is the largest provider of inpatient and outpatient
services in the State of New Jersey. In addition to excellence
in primary care, Hackensack provides several tertiary care experiences
including bone marrow transplants and kidney transplants. Hackensack
University Medical Center is a New Jersey State designated regional
referral center for cardiac catherization, cardiac surgery and
electrophysiology studies.
FOCUS Community Health Center:
An ambulatory care facility established by the University of
Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey Medical School (UMDNJ-NJMS),
Department of Medicine, with financial support from University
Hospital to serve the health care needs of the people of Newark
with special emphasis on culturally competent health care and
preventive services. FOCUS became fully operational in January
1999.
This site addresses the language, cultural, and institutional
barriers that prevent the growing Latino population from obtaining
quality health care. Staffed by Latino faculty and bilingual
health care professionals, FOCUS is rapidly becoming a major
ambulatory site for funded community-based research efforts
from NJMS as well as serving the health needs of this group.
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