Practice Sites
Practice Sites
As the core teaching facility of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 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.
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. University Hospital
has more than 19,000 admissions, 2,700 births, and 215,000 outpatient
visits annually.
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.
