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University Hospital has shown tremendous growth from its first days as a 25 bed city hospital in 1882, through 1979 when the current hospital building was built until today. The University Hospital Department of Internal Medicine has been at the forefront of this growth offering a wide range of specialty services including a Center for Emerging Pathogens, a center for Biodefense and Bioterrorism, and a comprehensive Liver Treatment and Transplant Center. The institution boasts a National Tuberculosis Center which provides an impressive amount of community outreach, public awareness and public health support to the Newark Community as well as inpatient support at University Hospital. Our Division of Cardiology shows continuous growth with an ever-increasing research division that participates in various national studies, a cardiac catheterization suite that has brought increased numbers of patients to UMDNJ for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and a Center for Preventive Cardiology which includes major thought leaders in the arena of risk reduction and event prevention. University Hospital has a Ryan White HIV/AIDS center at which the first U.S. case of HIV-2 was discovered as well as the reporting of the first female case of HIV in New Jersey. Currently in the process of being built is a state of the art cancer treatment center. 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. Officials at
University Hospital and New Jersey Medical School have announced
an affiliation with the Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons for the establishment of a new division of cardiothoracic
surgery at the hospital and medical school. Columbia faculty members
will assume leadership positions in the division and will join the
team at University Hospital on July 1, 2004.
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