RWJBarnabas Health: Advancing Comprehensive Care Through Innovation

Healthcare

On Dec 1, 2025

RWJBarnabas Health is New Jersey’s largest and most comprehensive academic health system, caring for more than five million people annually. Nationally renowned for quality and safety, the system includes 12 acute care hospitals (including seven teaching hospitals and an academic medical center); three children’s hospitals; the nation’s leading provider of pediatric inpatient rehabilitation, their two pediatric long-term care facilities and its network of outpatient centers; a free-standing behavioral health center and behavioral health service in partnership with Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, and the state’s largest behavioral health addiction services with the Institute for Prevention and Recovery; a satellite emergency department; trauma centers; ambulatory care centers; comprehensive hospice and home care programs; an integrated medical group practice with primary and specialty care physician practices and telehealth; a clinically integrated network; multiple-site radiology and pharmacy services; the Institute for Nursing Excellence and the new RWJBarnabas Health School of Nursing in Oceanport in addition to the Trinitas School of Nursing location; a mobile health division that includes Emergency Medical Services (Advanced and Basic Life Support ambulance transport services), a training center and non-emergent patient transportation; a transfer/call center with 200 ambulances, a helicopter and numerous other assets.

RWJBarnabas Health is among New Jersey’s largest private employers, with more than 44,000 employees, contributing more than $5.5 billion to the state economy every year. In addition to being recognized as a top employer by Forbes and Becker’s Healthcare, our hospitals, programs and services have earned countless awards in their fields, including the prestigious Magnet designation for nursing excellence. Additionally, our hospitals receive high excellence, quality and safety scores from top nationally respected organizations including U.S. News & World Report.

In fact, RWJBarnabas Health children’s hospitals were once again named among the nation’s Best Children’s Hospitals for 2024 – 2025 by U.S. News & World Report. The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital (BMSCH) at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick ranked #47 nationally for orthopedics and ranked #35 for urology. The urology ranking recognizes Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, and Unterberg Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center.

RWJBarnabas Health’s commitment to enhancing access to care includes a transformative partnership with Rutgers University, including Rutgers Cancer Institute – the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center – and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Rutgers Cancer Institute, together with RWJBarnabas Health, is at the forefront of cancer research and care, bringing the most advanced cancer treatments including the breakthrough CAR T-Cell therapy as well as clinical trials close to home for patients. RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute are making a major investment in new facilities across our communities including the opening of the state’s first freestanding cancer hospital earlier this year, the Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center in New Brunswick; as well the Melchiorre Cancer Center on the Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Campus, set to open in the coming months; and the Vogel Medical Campus in Tinton Falls, opening next year.

RWJBarnabas Health is the state’s largest safety-net provider and leader in addressing the social determinants of health. RWJBarnabas Health provides food to the hungry, housing for the homeless and economic opportunities to those most vulnerable.

Systemwide, RWJBarnabas Health has implemented a high reliability organization (HRO), using best practices from industries such as nuclear power, aviation and manufacturing. Hospitals throughout RWJBarnabas Health are nationally renowned in leading medical and health services, including a Renal Transplant division at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center that ranks among the largest in the nation for Living Donor Transplants and Kidney Transplant programs.

Also renowned: the nationally recognized Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain Management Programs at Children’s Specialized Hospital, the latter of which has been implemented at a California-based children’s hospital; the Heart Transplant program at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center that is one of only a handful of programs nationally to have successfully transplanted nearly 1,100 hearts; also at Newark Beth Israel, the state’s only Lung Transplant Program; Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick is the flagship cancer hospital of Rutgers Cancer Institute and the principal teaching hospital of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick is also home to a Level 1 Trauma Center and the first Pediatric Trauma Center in the state; and at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, New Jersey’s only state-certified Burn Center.

The Attorney General’s Office, RWJBarnabas Health Behavioral Health services and Rutgers UBHC have been participating in the Arrive Together program since 2022, pairing a certified behavioral health screener together with a member of local law enforcement to “arrive together” to respond to a behavioral health-related 911 call or screening request. Clara Maass Medical Center, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Jersey City Medical Center and Trinitas Regional Medical Center are some of the first hospitals to be part of this program, which is a national model to help reduce delays in responding to behavioral health crisis calls and reduce the need for use of force in these situations.

RWJBarnabas Health is the official health care provider of the New Jersey Devils, Gotham FC, Rutgers University Athletics, Seton Hall University Athletics, Princeton University Athletics, Somerset Patriots (Minor League AA Affiliate of the New York Yankees) and New Jersey BlueClaws (Minor League Affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies).

Mark E. Manigan, President & CEO

95 Old Short Hills Road, West Orange, NJ 07052

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