Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

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Central New Jersey's Only Level 1 Trauma and academic medical center, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital provides state-of-the-art care across the full range of health care services. Specialties include cardiac care from screening to heart surgery and transplantation, cancer care, emergency medicine, pediatrics and maternal-fetal medicine, to the groundbreaking artificial heart. ^[1]

Located in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the hospital is a clinical campus of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School's program in New Brunswick and offers training programs for medical students, residents, fellows, nurses and allied health professionals in a variety of specialties. The hospital is a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Network.

[edit] National Rankings

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital continues to be ranked one of the nation’s best hospitals by U.S.News & World Report. For the Third year in a row, they have obtained a top ranking for Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oncology And Respiratory Disorders.^[2]

[edit] Mission Statement

The mission of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is to advance the health status of the region’s population through the provision of appropriate health and medical care. To accomplish this mission, The Hospital serves as a principal site for the education of physicians, provides programs of allied and community health education and offers highly complex health care resources to assist in the educational process.

[edit] Services Offered

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital offers clinical programs in the following areas:^[3]

• Diabetes Self-Management Education Program
• Digestive Disorders
• Neurology (Clinical Neurosciences Center, Parkinson's Disease Information and Referral Center)
• Radiology (Radiology, Women's Imaging Center)
• Sleep Disorders Center
• Surgery (Bloodless, Cardiothoracic, Orthopedic, Prostate Cancer, Thoracic, Vascular)
• Transplantation (Heart, Kidney and Pancreas)
• Trauma and Emergency Medicine (Emergency Department, Level I Trauma Center, Stroke Center, Injury Prevention)

The hospital also maintains three centers of excellence:^[3]

• Cardiovascular Center of Excellence
• Cancer Center of Excellence
• Women's and Children's Center of Excellence

Robert Wood Johnson also runs The Bristol Myers Squibb Children's Hospital, which has several areas of care:^[4]

• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
• Pediatric Emergency Department
• Pediatric Unit
• Adolescent Unit
• Hematology/Oncology Unit
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is the primary Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provider for the city of New Brunswick and its Mobile Intensive Care Units provide advanced life support to a large portion of Middlesex County. The hospital operates its own regional emergency medical dispatch center (MED CENTRAL) and Specialty Care Transport Unit and is the central base of the New Jersey EMS Task Force (NJEMSTF). The emergency department also has an EMS physician fellow who responds in a specially equipped vehicle (MD-1) to high level incidents and disasters as part of the NJEMSTF^[5].

RWJUH is the Robert Wood Johnson is the principal teaching hospital for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. UMDNJ is largest school of health sciences of its kind in the United States. It is also the leading research university in New Jersey, edging the other major research universities in the state (including Princeton University and Rutgers University) in research grant dollars.^[6] It does, however, have various academic partnerships with universities and other institutions in New Jersey.

[edit] History of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

The Origins of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital can be traced to 1885, When The New Brunswick City Hospital Was Organized. In 1888 The director's raised $3,000 to purchase land for the "John Wells Memorial Hospital". In 1916 it was changed to "Middlesex General Hospital", and in 1986 changed to "Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital".

[edit] Hospital Accomplishments

• FIRST in the NATION with the ABIOCORE Artificial Heart.
• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital: Best Heart Care in New Jersey, For The 3rd Year In A Row as ranked by US News & World Report
• Harvard Ranked RWJUH as the 6th Best Hospital in The Nation
• Best Doctors Article
• 5th best in the nation among the 50 Exceptional U.S. Hospitals for patient safety initiatives From Consumers Digest
• Magnet Designation For The 3rd Straight Time
• Former RWJUH President and CEO Clifton R. Lacy, MD, was ranked one of Modern Physician Magazine's 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in 2005 and 2006, and Modern Healthcare Magazine's 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare in 2005

[edit] Map

Coordinates: 40°29′44″N 74°26′57″W / 40.495428°N 74.449217°W / 40.495428; -74.449217

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
• Artificial Heart Information
• The Heart Center Of New Jersey
• Center For Kidney And Pancreas Transplantation
• The Level 1 Trauma Center
• The Robert Wood Health Network
• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Echocardiography Laboratory - Internet Journal