Healthcare
With its location near New York and Newark, and its own outstanding array of hospitals in Elizabeth and Union County, Elizabeth residents are assured of the finest healthcare available anywhere in the world.
TRINITAS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
Dedicated to serving those who live and work in Union County and the Central New Jersey Region, Trinitas Regional Medical Center (TrinitasRMC) is the result of the consolidation of St. Elizabeth Hospital and Elizabeth General Medical Center in January 2000. Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth in partnership with Elizabethtown Healthcare Foundation, TrinitasRMC is a Catholic teaching medical facility that has expanded to include no less than 10 Centers of Excellence in fields of medicine and healthcare from cardiology to nursing education and renal care.
TrinitasRMC has grown to become a healthcare provider that reaches a greater number of people than the two previous hospitals combined. With facilities on two major campuses in Elizabeth, as well as more than 100 locations throughout the state, TrinitasRMC is a 531-bed center, including a 120-bed extended care center. TrinitasRMC provides comprehensive care in numerous services including emergency, medical/surgical care, adult and child/adolescent psychiatry, cardiology, cancer outpatient and inpatient care, diabetes management, maternal/child health including a high-risk newborn nursery, inpatient pediatrics, renal care and treatment, senior health and lifestyle concerns, sleep disorders diagnosis, and wound healing.
TrinitasRMC is a teaching medical center, serving as a major clinical site for the Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education Internal Medicine Residency Program. The accredited, three-year program is part of a rotation that includes St. Michael’s Medical Center. A leader in nursing education, the Trinitas School of Nursing, part of a cooperative education program with Union County College, currently enrolls more than 1,800 students in its full- and part-time programs of study. Upon its recent designation as a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education 2008-2011 by the National League for Nursing, the Trinitas School of Nursing became one of only 13 schools nationally and the first school in New Jersey to receive this prestigious award.
TrinitasRMC’s primary service area consists of the City of Elizabeth, the state’s fourth-largest city. Its 125,000 residents represent a broad ethnic range—in fact, roughly half of the city’s residents are of Hispanic descent. TrinitasRMC serves communities surrounding Elizabeth including Clark, Colonia, Cranford, Hillside, Linden, Roselle, Roselle Park, Rahway and Union. The hospital’s primary and secondary service areas comprise more than 300,000 residents.
Continuing to respond to the healthcare needs of a thriving city and its environs, TrinitasRMC serves more than 17,000 inpatients, 65,000 emergency patients, 1,800 newborns and 300,000 outpatients each year. The Trinitas Family includes 2,400 employees, 450 physicians, and 200 volunteers and Auxilians. Trinitas Hospital was named “Outstanding Employer” by the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, was selected as one of the “Best Places to Work in New Jersey” by NJBIZ for three consecutive years, and was named one of the “2007 Best Employers for Workers over 50” by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).
Recent developments at Trinitas include the introduction of hyperbaric medicine to the Wound Healing Center, the initiation of elective angioplasty services, the completion of the $28 million Trinitas Comprehensive Cancer Center, an organization-wide dedication to upgrades in information technology that have helped to move Trinitas closer to a “paperless” environment, and the designation of TrinitasRMC as a Primary Stroke Center by the American Stroke Association. To learn more about TrinitasRMC, please visit www.TrinitasRMC.org.
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Less than 15 minutes away is one of New Jersey’s most comprehensive hospitals, the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School’s University Hospital. This facility is the center of referral for many of the state’s most advanced medical services and specialty care programs. The hospital’s 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 I 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 also serve as 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.
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